Sr. Cloud Solutions Engineer

Type of Requisition:

Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:

None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:

None

Suitability:

Public Trust/Other Required:

NACLC (T3)

Job Family:

Cloud

Job Qualifications:

Skills:

Application Migration, Application Troubleshooting, Cloud: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Cloud Deployment, Docker Containers

Certifications:

Experience:

8 + years of related experience

US Citizenship Required:

No

Job Description:

GDIT is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to support the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID). In this role, you will help streamline our operations and processes as well as expand the organizations adoption of cloud, DevOps, and security best practices.

Work Visa sponsorship will not be provided for this role.

How A Senior Cloud Engineer Will Make An Impact:

• Collaborate with product owners (researchers and software developers) to identify and design topologies for custom business and scientific applications in AWS as part of our platform
• Provide guidance for adhering to best practices for optimal and secure use of cloud technologies
• Assist development teams in migrating their products from on-prem infrastructure to AWS, which often requires refactoring application architecture and breaking down monolithic applications into micro-service architecture or serverless workloads
• Train product teams in technologies and frameworks to assist them in setting up the environment, build and deploy applications, and automate operational needs
• Work with other Cloud Solutions Engineers or independently to develop prototypes and enhance or expand fundamental capabilities offered on the platform, such as CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and containerized or serverless workloads 
• Participate in a daily stand-up meeting to report your accomplishments, plans for the day, and any roadblocks you encountered.  Your team will do the same, giving you an opportunity to understand and contribute to other ongoing initiatives
• Occasionally present to your team or our software developer colleagues, on DevOps best practices, new and interesting cloud technologies, and ways you approached and solved challenging technical issues during our Tech Talks webinar series

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED:

Education:

• Technical Training, Certification(s) or Degree

Required Experience: 

• Minimum of eight years of related experience

Required Technical Skills:

• Minimum of three years of experience with AWS, to include knowledge of commonly used AWS services, such as IAM, ECS, S3, Lambda, and CloudTrail, Route 53, RDS, SSM and Lambda.  
•  Working knowledge of infrastructure as code frameworks, such as Terraform or CloudFormation to include writing templates and modules from scratch and experience with configuration management frameworks.
• Strong knowledge of Docker and hands-on experience in containerizing software applications; experience working with container orchestration and deployment platforms such as AWS ECS.
• Experience with implementing and managing CI/CD workflows using GitHub Actions, AWS CodeBuild, GoCD or similar tools
• Experience analyzing solutions components, understanding systems integration challenges, and identifying technology gaps in current components that must be resolved to reach future performance targets and functionality requirements in cloud infrastructure

Security Clearance:

• Ability to obtain NIH Public Trust

Required Skills and Abilities:

• Ability to effectively communicate and present ideas to both technical and non-technical users

Preferred Skills:

• Experience refactoring applications into containerized solutions using Docker
• Experience consulting with developers, scientists, and researchers on how to design, migrate, and optimize their solutions on AWS services

Location:

• Remote

The likely salary range for this position is $122,366 - $149,500. 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.

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

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