Senior Cloud Engineer - AWS, Automation & Secure DevOps

General Dynamics Information Technology; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 126,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

General Dynamics Information Technology is seeking a TS/SCI level Cloud Engineer to support our intelligence customer in Springfield, VA or St. Louis, MO. This regular requisition requires Top Secret/SCI clearance and the ability to obtain Top Secret SCI + Polygraph.

You will work with a highly capable development team to automate deployments, optimize performance, and maintain security protocols in an AWS-based environment within an agile setting.

Qualifications

• 8+ years IT experience.
• Meet DoD 8570 IAT Level II requirements including one of the following: Security+ CE, CND, SSCP, GSEC, GICSP, CySA+, or CCNA
• US Citizenship required.

Responsibilities

• Work with A&A Team to maintain security requirements for operation of systems
• Maintain and improve existing infrastructure (build out autoscaling, support new services, optimize for cost efficiencies/authentication/search, etc)
• Produce detailed documentation
• Maintain System in AWS environment using EC2, S3, Load Balancer, and RDS
• Automate and optimize service deployments
• Delivering a full-stack web application to production; identifying and resolving operational issues in same
• Actively participating in technical requirements-gathering process (i.e. meetings with customers)
• Executing design and implementation of application features, independently / unassisted, with minimal oversight
• Refactoring legacy application code for improved reliability and maintainability
• Mentoring junior developers
• Writing and reading unit tests; understanding code-quality analysis concepts
• Writing and debugging Javascript, Typescript, or closely-related language
• Developing applications backed by a relational database; understanding RDB design concepts

Skills

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Automation Scripting

IT Troubleshooting

JavaScript/TypeScript

Angular

CI/CD (GitLab/Jenkins/Nexus)

Docker

Kubernetes

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Programming, Science, Engineering or related technical discipline

Tools

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

GitLab/Jenkins/Nexus

Job description

General Dynamics Information Technology is seeking a TS/SCI level Cloud Engineer to support our intelligence customer in Springfield, VA or St. Louis, MO. This regular requisition requires Top Secret/SCI clearance and the ability to obtain Top Secret SCI + Polygraph.

You will work with a highly capable development team to automate deployments, optimize performance, and maintain security protocols in an AWS-based environment within an agile setting.