Type of Requisition:

Pipeline

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:

None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:

None

Public Trust/Other Required:

BI Full 6C (T4)

Job Family:

Software Engineering

Job Qualifications:

Skills:

AWS Cloud Computing, Linux, Node.js, React.js

Certifications:

None

Experience:

7 + years of related experience

US Citizenship Required:

No

Job Description:

GDIT is seeking a Cloud Software Developer with strong hands-on experience building, deploying, and maintaining modern cloud-native applications in AWS. You will work as part of an Agile team responsible for designing scalable architectures, developing Node.js/React applications, automating infrastructure with Terraform, and ensuring secure and reliable cloud operations.

This role requires practical, demonstrable engineering experience across Linux, AWS services, infrastructure-as-code, and JavaScript development.

On-Call support and/or a flexible work schedule may be required based on operational demands.

MEANINGFUL WORK AND PERSONAL IMPACT:
As a Cloud Software Developer, the work you’ll do at GDIT will be impactful to the mission of our customers. You will play a crucial role via the following core responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain cloud-native applications using Node.js, React.js, and related frameworks
• Implement infrastructure-as-code using Terraform or AWS CDK
• Build and deployment of pipelines and platform operations
• Perform Linux-based troubleshooting and root-cause analysis
• Implement secure-by-design patterns and participate in compliance/hardening tasks
• Collaborate with teams deploying and operating workloads using AWS services (such as, but not limited to: Lambda, EC2, S3, CloudWatch, API Gateway, VPC, IAM)
• Collaborate with UI/UX designers, cloud engineers, architects, and DevOps teams

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED:
Bring your engineering expertise along with a drive for innovation to GDIT. The Cloud Software Developer must have:

Education:

• Technical Training, Certificate, or Degree required
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Programming, Computer Engineering or relevant experiencepreferred

Experience:

• 5+ years of related experience with AWS cloud computing required
• 7+ years of total IT experiencepreferred

Required Skills:

The Cloud Software Developer must be able to demonstrate recent, hands‑on experience (no theoretical or academic-only exposure) in the following:

• Proficiency in Node.js and JavaScript/TypeScript
• Experience building and maintaining React.js front-end applications
• Strong knowledge of Linux fundamentals: navigation, logs, permissions, troubleshooting techniques
• Practical experience designing and deploying solutions in AWS, including core services and networking
• Hands-on experience with Terraform or CDK (modules, variables, state mgmt.)
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools (such as, but not limited to: GitLab, GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline, Jenkins)
• Understanding of RESTful APIs and event-driven patterns
• Ability to explain architectural tradeoffs, troubleshooting steps, and real-world problem solving
• Experience building and deploying pipelines and platform operations

Security Clearance Level: This role will require you to obtain and maintain a Public Trust and will require you to provide onsite fingerprinting at a designated facility.  This investigation may review personal and criminal behavior, financial conduct, foreign influence, as well as other adjudications.

***Must be US Person (Green Card Holder, US Permanent Resident Alien, Refugee, Asylee, or US Citizen)***

Location: Remote

***Must be able to provide on-call support and/or follow a flexible work schedule as needed***

The likely salary range for this position is $128,039 - $173,229. 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

Travel Required:

Less than 10%

Telecommuting Options:

Remote

Work Location:

Any Location / Remote

Total Rewards at GDIT:

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. GDIT typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and an additional 10 paid holidays per year. Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee’s date of hire. The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees. 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.

 

Our Identity Verification Process:

As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during virtual interviews. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud. By proceeding, you authorize the collection, processing, and use of your biometric data for identity verification and security purposes.