Sr. Hybrid Cloud Platform Engineer

$101,566 - $131,584/Yr

Unclassified - Springfield, VA

Full-time - Mid Level

Remote - Springfield, VA

10,001+ employees

About the position

As a Sr. Hybrid Cloud Platform Engineer at GDIT, you will deliver innovative solutions tailored to the unique requirements of our clients, focusing on application development and enhancing the end-user experience. This role is critical in supporting our intelligence customers, ensuring operational security, and optimizing cloud services. You will work in an agile environment, collaborating with a highly functional development team to automate service deployments and maintain system performance.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain Platform as a Service offering using RedHat OpenShift
• Work with A&A Team to maintain security requirements for operation of systems
• Maintain and improve existing infrastructure, including autoscaling and cost optimization
• Produce detailed documentation
• Maintain systems in AWS environment using EC2, S3, ELB, and RDS
• Maintain systems in a VMware vSphere environment, using NSX and NetApp StorageGRID
• Automate and optimize service deployments

Requirements

• 5+ years of related experience in IT
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Programming, Science, Engineering or a related technical discipline
• Prior experience building and maintaining Platform as a Service offerings via Cloud-based providers
• Strong understanding of RHEL/CentOS Linux distributions
• Strong understanding of RedHat OpenShift and/or other Kubernetes distributions
• Experience with containerization technologies (e.g. Docker)
• Strong knowledge of Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Strong troubleshooting skills
• 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
• Strong communication skills

Nice-to-haves

• Experience administering production RedHat OpenShift clusters
• Strong understanding of cloud APIs and interaction with the AWS/CLI
• Exposure to Infrastructure as Code such as Puppet, Ansible, Chef, Salt or Terraform
• Experience working with one or more programming languages: Python, Ruby, or Java
• Experience with virtualization technologies (e.g. VMware)
• Familiarity with HTML, CSS, Markdown, and portal development

Benefits

• 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
• Paid vacation and holidays
• Short and long-term disability benefits
• Life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance