Junior Full Stack Platform Engineer - AWS

Type of Requisition:

Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:

None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:

None

Public Trust/Other Required:

NACLC (T3)

Job Family:

Cloud

Job Qualifications:

Skills:

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Cloud Development, Docker (Software), Node.js, TypeScript

Certifications:

None

Experience:

2 + years of related experience

US Citizenship Required:

No

Job Description:

GDIT is seeking a Junior Full Stack Platform Engineer with a hunger for supporting an evolving cloud development and hosting platform to join our Cloud Platform team supporting the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).

In this role, you will work alongside talented full stack and infrastructure developers and engineers as part of an Agile platform team to support software delivery and application hosting using Amazon Web Services (AWS). Your primary focus will be on testing, supporting, debugging, troubleshooting, and maintaining features across all layers of our platform stack. You will be expected to participate in regular scrum ceremonies, collaborate with senior engineers, and contribute to the implementation of robust and reliable services and APIs. You will also engage in knowledge sharing with the broader Platform Team, enabling the successful use of the services we build and maintain. Additionally, you will apply best practices in version control, containerization, and CI/CD deployments, practicing DevOps skills daily to help maintain and update the system we develop.

This role is hybrid with 1 day onsite in Rockville, MD. Travel expenses will not be reimbursed.

Work Visa sponsorship will not be provided for this role.

HOW A JUNIOR FULL STACK PLATFORM ENGINEER WILL MAKE AN IMPACT:​

• Support platform development by learning, documenting, and shaping internal developer experience (DX) and paved paths
• Collaborate in designing platform features through active participation in team scrum activities
• Support the development and maintenance of front and back-end solutions using Angular, Moleculer JS microservices, and NodeJS hosted on AWS ECS
• Drive the collection, reporting, and observability of key metrics using tools like DataDog, SumoLogic, and AWS CloudWatch
• Work with various SQL and No-SQL databases, including MongoDB, AWS DynamoDB, and AWS SSM Parameter Store
• Manage system deployment using infrastructure as code tools like Terraform and AWS CloudFormation
• Maintain code integrity and organization with Git/GitHub
• Track and remediate security and dependency update alerts
• Participate in release management and maintain CI/CD pipelines from AWS CodeBuild to GoCD
• Collaborate on tasks from requirements to deployment using Wrike
• Troubleshoot and support issues across the stack, hunting and squashing bugs reporting to our engineering and development team
• Create and update documentation

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED

Required Qualifications:

• 2+ years related experience with Technical Training, Certification(s) or Degree
• General experience with Microservices, RESTful Web Services, and HTTP APIs
• Experience reading, writing, and debugging TypeScript, and developing single-page web applications using Angular
• An awareness of AWS Infrastructure Services, particularly ECS, SQS, Lambda, and EventBridge
• Familiarity with AWS JavaScript SDK, Node.js, JSON, XML, and consuming cloud APIs
• Experience with CI/CD, Git/GitHub, and artifact management
• Working knowledge of SQL/noSQL/Object database systems such as MongoDB, AWS SSM Parameter Store, and S3

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong desire to be part of a team maintaining and supporting internal development and cloud hosting platforms
• General experience or awareness of microservice systems development
• Experience with Azure cloud computing
• Experience reading, writing, and troubleshooting Terraform infrastructure as code, and other forms of infrastructure as code (e.g., CloudFormation)
• Experience with various programming and scripting languages such as Python, Ruby, and TCL
• Experience with database, data integration, and visualization applications such as MongoDB Atlas Charts and Grafana
• Experience using and working within the SumoLogic platform
• Experience with DBMS such as MySQL, AuroraSQL, and PostgreSQL

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