Senior Cloud Developer - REMOTE

Type of Requisition:

Pipeline

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:

None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:

None

Suitability:

Public Trust/Other Required:

MBI (T2)

Job Family:

Cloud

Job Qualifications:

Skills:

Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), Cloud Development, DevSecOps

Certifications:

Experience:

8 + years of related experience

US Citizenship Required:

No

Job Description:

Seize your opportunity to make a personal impact as a Senior Cloud Developer supporting the United States Postal Service (USPS). GDIT is your place to make meaningful contributions to challenging projects and grow a rewarding career

At GDIT, people are our differentiator. As a Senior Cloud Developer supporting USPS in, you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Our work depends on Senior Cloud Developer joining our USPS Tech Applications Services team to oversee the consistent utilization of USPS development standards, procedures and processes.

HOW A SENIOR CLOUD DEVELOPER WILL MAKE AN IMPACT: 

• Participate in the project planning process that determines programming and hardware needs. Assist or lead in preparing programming specifications and in developing coding logic. Prepare charts, diagrams, and other documentation as needed.
• Design, code, test, and debug computer programs, independently or as part of a team, using computer languages identified and available in the Infrastructure Tool Kit (ITK).
• Ensure systems compatibility.
• Follow data security procedures and identify potential data security risks.
• Maintain contact, as designated, with the team leader, customers, contractors, and equipment vendors to monitor progress and coordinate varied project stages.
• Maintain computer programs and systems.
• Revise and update computer programs, procedures, and systems; including rewrites to the systems documentation and instructions as necessary.
• Performs other job-related tasks as assigned or required to support the duties outlined above.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED: 

Education:

• A bachelor’s degree from an accredited College/University in the applicable field of services is preferred. In lieu of degree, an additional 4 years of relevant work experience is required.

Required Experience:

• 8-12 years of professional work experience; preferably in technology or software development
• 2+ years of working knowledge experience in one or more of the following qualifications:
  • Knowledge / experience with Agile Methodologies
  • Knowledge / experience of SDLC practices
  • Change Management and Configuration Management (VersionOne, ServiceNow, etc.)
  • Understanding of network architecture and application development methodologies
  • Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)

Required Skills and Abilities:

• Demonstrated knowledge with the following qualifications:
  • DevSecOps, Secure Coding practices, and the Solutions Development Framework (Docker, Jenkins, GitLab)
  • Designing and developing event/message based application services using a message queue (e.g.Apache Kafka)
  • Using automated unit testing and user interface testing tools, ideally in a test-driven-development approach
  • Use of source code management tools, ideally in a continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD pipeline) SecDevOps environment
  • API centric, microservices, serverless applications, or similar cloud-friendly application designs
  • Cloud Development with Dataflow, PubSub, or Redis
  • Microservices design
  • Kubernetes
  • Security
  • Performance tuning
  • High Observability Principle
  • Multi-threading
  • Java
  • NoSQL Schema Design

Security Clearance Level:

• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust and successfully pass a thorough Government background screening process requiring the completion of detailed forms and fingerprinting
• This position has a U.S. residency requirement. The USPS security clearance process requires the selected candidate to have resided in the U.S. (including U.S. Territories) for the last five years as follows: U.S. Citizens cannot have left the U.S. (including U.S. Territories) for longer than 6 months consecutively in the last 3 years (unless they meet certain ex