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:
Software Engineering

Job Qualifications:

Skills:
Cloud:Amazon Web Services (AWS), Cloud Architectures, Cloud Migrations, Containerization, IT Automation
Certifications:
None
Experience:
5 + years of related experience
US Citizenship Required:
No

Job Description:

GDIT is seeking a Cloud Engineer (AWS) to support our National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) team in Rockville, MD.

As a Could Engineer, you will work closely with other innovative and savvy people to engineer custom solutions in the Cloud. You will collaborate regularly with developers and product owners to deploy custom line-of-business, scientific, and high performance computing (HPC) applications. In this role, you will also help streamline our users operations and automation processes, furthering the adoption of DevOps best practices. Candidates with a focus on innovation and automating best practices is a plus.

This role is remote but within commuting distance to Rockville, MD is preferred.

HOW A 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 on AWS as part of our custom 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 AWS cloud technologies, services and frameworks to assist them in setting up the environment, build and deploy applications, and automate operational needs.
• Work with other Cloud 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, serverless workloads, and high performance computing.
• 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.
• Act as an AWS Cloud Subject Matter Expert (SME) on cross functional teams to help further the organizations mission.
• Occasionally present to your team, our software developer colleagues, and researchers 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:

Required Experience:

• Technical training, certifications, and/or degree and 5+ years of related experience required.
• 3+ years of experience with AWS, to include knowledge of commonly used AWS services, such as: ECS, EC2, EBS, S3, Lambda, etc.
• Working knowledge of infrastructure-as-code (IaC) frameworks, such as Terraform and CloudFormation, including writing templates and modules from scratch and experience with configuration management frameworks.
• Knowledge of containerization and hands-on experience in containerizing software applications; experience working with container orchestration and deployment platforms such as AWS ECS and AWS EKS.
• Experience with implementing and managing Ci/CD workflows using GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline, or similar tools.
• Experience with presenting ideas to both technical and non-technical users.
• Ability to write comprehensive technical documentation.
• Must be able to obtain a NIH Public Trust clearance.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with AWS Security services and tooling such as Security Groups, CloudTrail, Config, Inspector, and IAM.
• Experience with configuration management through AWS Systems Manager, Ansible, Jenkins, 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.
• Within commuting distance to the Rockville, MD area is strongly preferred.
• Experience designing and implementing technologies using micro-service technology in a Federal Scientific Health Research environment.
• Experience refactoring applications into Cloud native applications.
• Experience consulting scientists, researchers, and developers on how to design, migrate, and optimize their solutions on AWS services.

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The likely salary range for this position is $123,250 - $166,750. 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:
None

Telecommuting Options:
Remote

Work Location:
USA MD Home Office (MDHOME)

Additional Work Locations:

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. 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.