AWS Cloud Security Systems Administrator - TS/SCI with Polygraph
General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc.
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Job summary
Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
- 8+ years related experience.
- US Citizenship and TS/SCI with Polygraph.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with cloud engineering teams to design and implement secure AWS cloud environments.
- Develop infrastructure as code and automation to support cloud deployments.
- Maintain security posture and compliance across cloud environments.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to capture requirements and translate them into technical specifications.
- Develop and maintain technical documentation and briefing materials for program reviews.
Skills
Education
Job description
Type of Requisition: Regular Clearance Level Must Currently Possess: Top Secret SCI + Polygraph Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None Public Trust/Other Required: None Job Family: IT Infrastructure and Operations
Job Qualifications: Skills: Amazon S3, Amazon Web Services (AWS), AWS CloudFormation, DevOps Experience: 6+ years of related experience US Citizenship Required: Yes
Seize your opportunity to make a personal impact as an AWS Cloud Security Systems Administrator supporting customer activities. GDIT is your place to make meaningful contributions to challenging projects and grow a rewarding career. At GDIT, people are our differentiator. As an AWS Cloud Security Systems Administrator, you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Our work depends on an AWS Cloud Security Systems Administrator joining our highly skilled team to be a premier provider of cyber security services to the customer. We provide consummate cyber security risk management “as a service” platform across multiple fabrics and centers. We have responsibility to ensure operational IT capabilities provide the client with necessary timeliness, accuracy and security of information demanded from all our highly professional roles. Be the change, lead our change – join us!
- Work with a team of technical cloud computing professionals to rapidly build and deploy a demonstration capability, while simultaneously supporting the program office to specify, design and deploy the final system.
- Development will take place in an iterative fashion using scrum techniques with inputs from multiple stakeholders.
- Participation in iterative software development teams with adherence to all reporting requirements.
- Meeting with stakeholders, analyzing requirements, user stories, and related artifacts to determine technical specifications for the system environments.
- Coordinating with technical teams responsible for the cloud hosting infrastructures in order to establish and maintain the environments used by the program for the development, test, and deployment of the demonstration capability and the final production system.
- Review and Maintain environments at the latest security posture.
- Environment and Server layout and configuration maintenance to Industry standards and best practices.
- Remediate app/package installations.
- Rapid prototyping to refine system requirements and technical specifications of the system and its operating environments.
- Experience in cloud application AWS architecture.
- Experience in developing enterprise and solution-level architectural designs.
- Knowledge of infrastructure as code design, management, and version control techniques.
- Exposure to project management skills and/or project-based work structures, project lifecycle models, etc.
- Knowledge of system and software quality assurance best practices and methodologies.
- Confidence and experience with AWS Cloudformation.
- Strong communication and documentation skills.
- Technical experience with large scale system integration.
- Build, migrate and test AWS cloud environments and integrations.
- Develop templates or scripts to automate everyday developer or operations functions.
- Build new automation to expand and maintain Cloud hosting.
- Monitor and maintain multiple Cloud Infrastructure environments based on client requirements.
- Identify new tools and processes to improve the Cloud platforms.
- Collaborate with remote team members to build and maintain positive, productive team relationships.
- Developing, testing, and monitoring connections to interfacing systems such as data feeds from numerous organizations and user interactions from other Sponsor organizations.
- Working with other programs to coordinate the integration of enterprise services to be consumed/used by the Sponsor system.
- As this program matures, this role may require occasional on-call after-hours support.
- Development of technical documentation and briefing materials to support program status reviews, control gates, and other presentations as directed by program management.
- Education: Bachelors Degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Information systems, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, or a closely related discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical certifications or training, or work experience.
- Experience: 8+ years related.
- Required technical skills: Cloud application architecture (AWS).
- Required technical skills: AWS Cloudformation.
- Required technical skills: Large scale system integration.
- Security clearance: TS/SCI with Polygraph.
- Desired Skills: Scripting to automate developer or operations functions.
- Desired Skills: Developing enterprise and solution-level architectural designs.
- Desired Skills: JIRA, Confluence and other project management tools.
Bethesda, MD - on customer site.
- 401K with company match.
- Comprehensive health and wellness packages.
- Internal mobility team dedicated to helping you own your career.
- Professional growth opportunities including paid education and certifications.
- Cutting-edge technology you can learn from.
- Rest and recharge with paid vacation and holidays.
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The likely salary range for this position is $107,744 - $132,250. 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: Onsite Work Location: USA MD Bethesda.
Additional Work Locations:
- 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.
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.
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