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Cloud Engineer Principal

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Hiring Remotely in United States
132K-178K Annually
Senior level
Remote
Hiring Remotely in United States
132K-178K Annually
Senior level
Designs, architects, deploys, and maintains multi-cloud solutions; secures and monitors systems; develops automation and scripts (Bash, PowerShell, Python); maintains documentation and SOPs; collaborates across teams, handles escalations, and advises implementation during infrastructure buildouts.
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Type of Requisition:

Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:

None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:

Secret

Public Trust/Other Required:

None

Job Family:

Software Engineering

Job Qualifications:

Skills:

Cloud Computing, Linux, Microsoft Windows Server

Certifications:

None

Experience:

5 + years of related experience

US Citizenship Required:

Yes

Job Description:

Own the opportunity as a Cloud Engineer Principal and help ensure the mission is never interrupted. At GDIT, we deliver clarity with our cloud solutions and provide meaningful work. Your work will be an important part of transforming our clients for the modern age and helping them face any obstacle.
At GDIT, people are our differentiator. As a Cloud Engineer Principal you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Our work depends on a Cloud Engineer Principal joining our dynamic team to work in a fast-paced environment with engineering, migration, and operations. We’re looking for a self-starter, to work both as part of the team and on individual assignments, in an environment of customer mission delivery, integrity, and communications.

We’re looking to fill this role with someone who currently has the cloud experience, certifications, and skills to execute in large environments, is flexible and enjoys tackling challenges, and desires to join a large team that is building and sustaining a large multi-tenant cloud platform/enterprise and migrating/expanding/automating the enterprise. If this sounds like you and you love to learn and grow with a team while delivering program milestones, then we’d love to hear from you!
HOW A CLOUD ENGINEER PRINCIPAL WILL MAKE AN IMPACT:

  • Designs, architects, deploys and maintains cloud solutions
  • Maintains the integrity and security of systems
  • Maintains all documentation
  • Supports and develops automation
  • Develop in languages such as Bash, PowerShell, Python
  • Maintains/enhances knowledge of related (AWS / Azure / GCP / OCI) cloud services
  • Monitors and tunes the cloud systems to achieve optimum performance levels
  • Work across teams and external customer groups to develop strategy, design solutions, and advise implementation teams during infrastructure buildouts
  • Deal with escalations. Make assessments, recommendations or provide solutions to resolve issues
  • Write and maintain standard operating procedures and work instructions, knowledge articles, etc.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED:

Education: Technical Training, Certification(s) or Degree, 5+ years of experience with cloud engineering and operations

Experience: Experience with Cloud Computing - AWS / Azure / GCP / OCI

Technical Skills: Linux, Windows Server

Skills and Abilities: Excellent communication skills with demonstrated experience delivering presentations to diverse audiences at various levels of an organization

Security Clearance Level: Must possess or be able to obtain and maintain a Secret or higher clearance

US Citizenship Required

Location: Remote

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.

#GDITLA

The likely salary range for this position is $131,750 - $178,250. 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:

Remote

Work Location:

Any Location / Remote

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. GDIT typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and an additional 10 paid holidays per year. Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee’s date of hire. The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees. 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.

 



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About Our Work:

We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers technology solutions 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 50+ countries worldwide, offering leading mission-ready capabilities in AI, cloud, cyber and software development.

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