Cloud Engineer Principal (SRF xxxx) - 100% Telework!

Type of Requisition:

Incumbent

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:

None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:

None

Public Trust/Other Required:

BI Full 6C (T4)

Job Family:

IT Infrastructure and Operations

Job Qualifications:

Skills:

Cloud Applications, Cloud Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure Services

Certifications:

None

Experience:

8 + years of related experience

US Citizenship Required:

Yes

Job Description:

Advance how our customers operate while you advance your career as a Cloud Engineer Principal at GDIT, where you'll build an impactful career in enterprise IT, collaborating with people who are driven and resourceful like you.

At GDIT, you’ll be at the forefront of innovation and play a meaningful part in improving how agencies operate as we provide enterprise IT operations and maintenance (O&M) services for the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Automated Biometric Identification System (IDENT), the Homeland Advanced Recognition Technology (HART) system, and the Office of Biometric Identity Management (OBIM) to store, match, share, and analyze biometric and biographic data in support of DHS’s strategic mission.

At the most critical moments of change, we’re there – bringing the resources, solutions, and expertise to help our clients take on some of the world’s biggest challenges – and GDIT is excited to offer you a unique opportunity to join a best performing O&M team supporting one our nation’s most critical national security, law enforcement, immigration and border management, and intelligence missions. With a career in Information Technology at GDIT, you’ll make the end user’s experience your priority and we’ll make your career growth ours.

At GDIT, people are our differentiator. Our work depends on as a Cloud Engineer Principal joining our program to serve as a specialist and to support technical initiatives for the HART Proxy Gateway (HPG), and to work proactively, collaboratively, and with an entrepreneurial spirit in providing O&M support to the customer and their Stakeholder communities in achieving their critical missions.

MEANINGFUL WORK AND PERSONAL IMPACT
As a Cloud Engineer Principal, the work you’ll do at GDIT will be impactful to the mission of DHS and OBIM.
● Maintain HPG web services, certificates, and the Identifier Broker, ensuring robust functionality within secure cloud-based frameworks
● Support incident response and troubleshooting
● Deploys and troubleshoots HPG certificates
● Ensures or supports compliance with DHS Cybersecurity Policy, IT Cloud Governance, and Configuration Management standards
● Serves as a subject matter expert (SME) for support configuration changes to message comparison software
● Provide on-call support to incident response and triage across cross-functional teams
● Collaborate with O&M team and stakeholders to deliver outcome-based solutions aligned with customer requirements.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED
Bring your technology expertise and drive for innovation to GDIT. The Cloud Engineer Principal must have:
● Education: Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science
● Experience: 8+ years of related experience
● Technical skills: experience operating and maintaining production and development cloud environments and providing other enterprise-level O&M support for the Homeland Advanced Recognition Technology (HART) system, especially HART Proxy Gateway (HPG); experience with Splunk, Dynatrace, Ansible, OpenShift, and AWS EC2 and S3
● Security clearance level: Public Trust (DHS HQ EOD required to start; must be able to obtain DHS HQ Final Suitability)
● US citizenship required
● Role requirements: work location - any CONUS home/remote; experience briefing or communicating issues/problems and outcome-based solutions, plans, progress, and results clearly and succinctly to program management and to Government supervisors/managers or technical staff; adept at problem-solving, troubleshooting, collaboration, time management, multi-tasking, and task-ownership; excellent oral and written communication skills; and possesses a high degree of originality, creativity, and initiative requiring minimal supervision
● Preferred Skills: 10+ years of related experience; degree in computer engineering, computer science, information systems, or related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical certifications or training, or work experience; knowledge and/or expertise with Docker, Jenkins, GitLab, SonarQube, CyberArk, Maestro, Confluence, and/or Jira; and certifications in ITIL v4, SAFe Agile Framew