TS/SCI Cloud Engineer — AWS, DevOps & Automation

D2 Consulting; St. Louis (MO); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health/Dental/Vision

401(k) match

Accrued PTO

STD/LTD/Life Insurance

Referral Bonuses

Professional development reimbursement

Job summary

GDIT is seeking a Cloud Engineer to join our team supporting a key intelligence customer. The role involves automating deployments, optimizing systems, and integrating with enterprise authentication services in an AWS environment.

You'll work within an agile team to deliver full-stack applications, implement secure cloud solutions, and participate in scrums and design reviews. A TS/SCI clearance is required, with on-site work in St. Louis, MO or Springfield, VA.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a technical discipline.
• 8+ years IT experience.
• DoD 8570 IAT Level II requirements (Security+ CE, CND, SSCP, GSEC, GICSP, CySA+, or CCNA).
• Strong knowledge of Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• Experience automating tasks with scripting languages (Bash, PowerShell, or Perl).
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum and DevOps CI/CD tools (GitLab, Jenkins, Nexus).
• Angular frontend framework; UI/UX design.
• Microservices architecture; REST APIs integration with COTS/FOSS software.
• CI/CD pipelines and containerization with Docker; Kubernetes orchestration.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with development teams to automate deployments and improve performance.
• Maintain and enhance infrastructure (autoscaling, authentication, monitoring, cost optimization).
• Operate in AWS with EC2, S3, Load Balancer, RDS.
• Develop full-stack features and resolve production issues.
• Engage in requirements gathering with customers and stakeholders.
• Implement design and deployment of features with minimal supervision.

Skills

AWS knowledge

Scripting (Bash/PowerShell/Perl)

Agile/Scrum

CI/CD (GitLab/Jenkins/Nexus)

Docker

Kubernetes

REST APIs

Angular

UI/UX

PostgreSQL

Go programming

HTML/CSS/Markdown

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

GitLab

Jenkins

Nexus

Job description

**ACTIVE TS/SCI SECURITY CLEARANCE REQUIRED**

Transform technology into opportunity as a Cloud Engineer with GDIT. A career in enterprise IT means connecting and enhancing the systems that matter most. At GDIT you'll be at the forefront of innovation and play a meaningful part in improving how agencies operate.

As a Cloud Engineer you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Our work depends on a TS/SCI level Cloud Engineer joining our team to support our intelligence customer in Springfield, VA or St. Louis, MO.

HOW A CLOUD ENGINEER WILL MAKE AN IMPACT

The Cloud Engineer will be responsible for working with highly functional development team automating service deployments; optimizing system performance; integrating with enterprise authentication services; establishing/improving system monitoring; maintaining established security protocols; providing customers technical support. The Cloud Engineer will be integrated with an agile environment participating with scrums and other meetings.

Specific Duties and 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 cost efficiencies/authentication/search, etc)
• 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
• Writing and reading unit tests; understanding code-quality analysis concepts
• Developing applications backed by a relational database; understanding RDB design concepts

WHAT YOU'LL NEED TO SUCCEED:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Programming, Science, Engineering or a related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical training, or work/military experience
• 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
• Strong knowledge of Amazon Web Services
• Experience in automating tasks using scripted languages such as Bash, PowerShell, or Perl
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodology
• Familiarity with DevOps development processes and Continuous Integration tools: GitLab, Jenkins, Nexus
• Angular frontend framework; UI/UX design
• Microservice-based backend architecture; integrating with COTS/FOSS software REST APIs
• Supporting a full-stack application in a PaaS environment
• CI/CD pipeline implementation, ideally with GitLab
• Creating and deploying containerized applications, ideally with Docker
• Designing/implementing container orchestration with Kubernetes

Desired Skills

• Strong understanding of cloud APIs and interaction with the AWS/CLI
• Experience working with one or more programming languages (e.g. Python, Ruby, or Java)
• Experience with Go programming language
• Familiarity with HTML, CSS, Markdown, and portal development
• Database experience with a Postgres backend

Desired Certifications:

\Additional Information

• All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
• Compensation is unique to each candidate and relative to the skills and experience they bring to the position. The salary range for this position is typically $130-$140k. This does not guarantee a specific salary as compensation is based upon multiple factors such as education, experience, certifications, and other requirements, and may fall outside of the above-stated range.
• Highlights of our benefits include Health/Dental/Vision, 401(k) match, Accrued PTO, STD/LTD/Life Insurance, Referral Bonuses, professional development reimbursement, and more!

D2 Technical Services is committed to a merit-based recruitment process and encourages applications from all qualified individuals. As a Veteran-Owned Small Business, we particularly welcome applications from veterans who have the requisite skills and experience. Job applicants that are interested in one of our openings and may require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, should contact us to request an accommodation.

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