Req ID: RQ222622
Type of Requisition: Regular
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: Top Secret/SCI
Public Trust/Other Required: None
Job Family: Software Engineering
Skills:
Cloud Development,IT System Architecture,Software Systems Architecture,System Designs,Systems Architecture
Certifications:
CompTIA Security+ CE | CompTIA - CompTIA
Experience:
5 + years of related experience
US Citizenship Required:
Yes
Job Description:
CLOUD DEVELOPER SR PRINCIPAL
Transform technology into opportunity as a Cloud Developer Sr Principal at GDIT. Shape what's next for mission-critical government projects while shaping what's next for your engineering career.
MEANINGFUL WORK AND PERSONAL IMPACT
As a Cloud Developer Sr Principal you will lead a team of diverse architects and engineers with backgrounds in PaaS, DevOps, Security, and IaaS operations in order to spread knowledge and practices. All in support of the Government Program Office's global cloud and platform services environments.
Responsible for the engineering and life-cycle management of, mostly cloud-based, platforms to attain a high degree of reliability and security.
Responsibilities include:
Lead / manage team of up to 10 admins and engineers, responible for communicating with the customer to achieve results and ensure tasks and projects are completed on time and within scope
Run the production environment by monitoring availability and taking a holistic view of system health.
Build software and systems to manage platform infrastructure and applications.
Improve reliability, quality, performance for cloud-hosted applications.
Measure and optimize system performance, with an eye toward pushing our capabilities forward, getting ahead of customer needs, and innovating to continually improve.
Provide primary operational support and engineering for multiple large, distributed software applications.
Gather and analyze metrics from both operating systems and applications to assist in performance tuning and fault finding.
Partner with development teams to improve services through rigorous testing and release procedures.
Participate in system design consulting, platform management, and capacity planning.
Create sustainable systems and services through automation and uplifts.
Balance feature development speed and reliability with well-defined service level objectives.
WHAT YOU'LL NEED TO SUCCEED
Bring your engineering expertise along with a drive for innovation to GDIT. The Cloud Developer Sr Principal must have:
? Education
Bachelor's Degree recommended
DoD 8570 Level II (Security +)
? Experience: 5+ years of related experience
? Technical skills:
Ability to program (structured and OO) with one or more high level languages, such as Python, Java, C/C++, Ruby, and JavaScript.
Adept Shell/BASH scripter
Experience with distributed storage technologies like NFS, HDFS, Ceph, and S3.
2+ years of experience working with container orchestration technologies, specifically Kubernetes.
A proactive approach to spotting problems, areas for improvement, and performance bottlenecks along with an ability to offer and implement solutions to address these.
Experience creating dashboards to track service health that appeal to both technical and non-technical audiences preferably with Splunk.
? Security clearance level:
Secret to start, must be able to obtain TS/SCI
? US citizenship required
? Preferred requirements:
Experience working with identity and access management technologies and solutions.
Experience with Agile development methodologies; using collaboration tools such as Jira and Confluence.
Experience with monitoring and logging solutions, specifically Splunk
Any of the following: AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate or AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate or any Professional level of the above-mentioned certs where applicable
1+ years' experience working with Gitlab
Skilled at creating Ansible playbooks, working with AWX/Ansible Tower
GDIT IS YOUR PLACE
At GDIT, the mission is our purpose, and our people are at the center of everything we do.
? Growth: AI-powered career tool that identifies career steps and learning opportunities
? Support: An internal mobility team focused on helping you achieve your career goals
? Rewards: Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages, 401K with company match, and competitive pay and paid time off
? Community: Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace
OWN YOUR OPPORTUNITY
Explore a career in software development at GDIT and you'll find endless opportunities to grow alongside colleagues who share your dedication to advancing innovation.
The likely salary range for this position is $144,500 - $195,500. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.
Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.
We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers consulting, technology and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 26,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. We operate across 50 countries worldwide, offering leading capabilities in digital modernization, AI/ML, Cloud, Cyber and application development. Together with our clients, we strive to create a safer, smarter world by harnessing the power of deep expertise and advanced technology.
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