Systems Engineer Lead

Your Impact

Own your opportunity to support our nation's defense. Make an impact by connecting and securing critical operations across the globe, keeping our country safe and secure.

Job Description

CLOUD DEVELOPER SR PRINCIPAL

Transform technology into opportunity as a Cloud Developer Sr Principal at GDIT. Shape what’s next for mission-critical government projects while shaping what’s next for your engineering career.

MEANINGFUL WORK AND PERSONAL IMPACT

As a Cloud Developer Sr Principal you will lead a team of diverse architects and engineers with backgrounds in PaaS, DevOps, Security, and IaaS operations in order to spread knowledge and practices. All in support of the Government Program Office’s global cloud and platform services environments.

Responsible for the engineering and life-cycle management of, mostly cloud-based, platforms to attain a high degree of reliability and security.

Responsibilities include:

Lead / manage team of up to 10 admins and engineers, responible for communicating with the customer to achieve results and ensure tasks and projects are completed on time and within scope

Run the production environment by monitoring availability and taking a holistic view of system health.

Build software and systems to manage platform infrastructure and applications.

Improve reliability, quality, performance for cloud-hosted applications.

Measure and optimize system performance, with an eye toward pushing our capabilities forward, getting ahead of customer needs, and innovating to continually improve.

Provide primary operational support and engineering for multiple large, distributed software applications.

Gather and analyze metrics from both operating systems and applications to assist in performance tuning and fault finding.

Partner with development teams to improve services through rigorous testing and release procedures.

Participate in system design consulting, platform management, and capacity planning.

Create sustainable systems and services through automation and uplifts.

Balance feature development speed and reliability with well-defined service level objectives.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED

Bring your engineering expertise along with a drive for innovation to GDIT. The Cloud Developer Sr Principal must have:

Education

Bachelor's Degree recommended

DoD 8570 Level II (Security +)

Experience: 5+ years of related experience

Technical skills:

Ability to program (structured and OO) with one or more high level languages, such as Python, Java, C/C++, Ruby, and JavaScript.

Adept Shell/BASH scripter

Experience with distributed storage technologies like NFS, HDFS, Ceph, and S3.

2+ years of experience working with container orchestration technologies, specifically Kubernetes.

A proactive approach to spotting problems, areas for improvement, and performance bottlenecks along with an ability to offer and implement solutions to address these.

Experience creating dashboards to track service health that appeal to both technical and non-technical audiences preferably with Splunk.

Security clearance level:

Secret to start, must be able to obtain TS/SCI

US citizenship required

Preferred requirements:

Experience working with identity and access management technologies and solutions.

Experience with Agile development methodologies; using collaboration tools such as Jira and Confluence.

Experience with monitoring and logging solutions, specifically Splunk

Any of the following: AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate or AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate or any Professional level of the above-mentioned certs where applicable

1+ years’ experience working with Gitlab

Skilled at creating Ansible playbooks, working with AWX/Ansible Tower

GDIT IS YOUR PLACE

At GDIT, the mission is our purpose, and our people are at the center of everything we do.

Growth: AI-powered career tool that identifies career steps and learning opportunities

Support: An internal mobility team focused on helping you achieve your career goals

Rewards: Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages, 401K with company match, and competitive pay and paid time off

Community: Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace

OWN YOUR OPPORTUNITY

Explore a career in software development at GDIT and you’ll find endless opportunities to grow alongside colleagues who share your dedication to advancing innovation.

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Work Requirements

Years of Experience

5 + years of related experience

may vary based on technical training, certification(s), or degree

Certification

CompTIA Security+ CE | CompTIA - CompTIA

Travel Required

10-25%

Citizenship

U.S. Citizenship Required

Salary and Benefit Information

The likely salary range for this position is $144,500 - $195,500. 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.

View information about benefits and our total rewards program.

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.

About Our Work

We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers technology and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 26,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. We operate across over 50 countries worldwide, offering leading capabilities in digital modernization, AI/ML, cloud, cyber and application development. Together with our customers, we strive to create a safer, smarter world by harnessing the power of deep expertise and advanced technology.

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