System Engineer

Transform technology into opportunity as a System Engineer at GDIT. Shape what’s next for mission-critical government projects while shaping what’s next for your engineering career.

MEANINGFUL WORK AND PERSONAL IMPACT
As a System Engineer Principal you will lead a team of diverse architects and engineers with backgrounds in PaaS, DevOps, Security, and IaaS operations in order to spread knowledge and practices. All in support of the Government Program Office’s global cloud and platform services environments.
Responsible for the engineering and life-cycle management of, mostly cloud-based, platforms to attain a high degree of reliability and security.

Responsibilities include:

• Run the production environment by monitoring availability and taking a holistic view of system health.
• Build software and systems to manage platform infrastructure and applications.
• Improve reliability, quality, performance for cloud-hosted applications.
• Measure and optimize system performance, with an eye toward pushing our capabilities forward, getting ahead of customer needs, and innovating to continually improve.
• Provide primary operational support and engineering for multiple large, distributed software applications.
• Gather and analyze metrics from both operating systems and applications to assist in performance tuning and fault finding.
• Partner with development teams to improve services through rigorous testing and release procedures.
• Participate in system design consulting, platform management, and capacity planning.
• Create sustainable systems and services through automation and uplifts.
• Balance feature development speed and reliability with well-defined service level objectives.

 

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED
Bring your engineering expertise along with a drive for innovation to GDIT. The Cloud Developer Sr Principal must have:

● Education

• Bachelor's Degree recommended
• DoD 8570 Level II (Security +)

● Experience: 5+ years of related experience

● Technical skills:

• Ability to program (structured and OO) with one or more high level languages, such as Python, Java, C/C++, Ruby, and JavaScript.
• Adept Shell/BASH scripter
• Experience with distributed storage technologies like NFS, HDFS, Ceph, and S3.
• 2+ years of experience working with container orchestration technologies, specifically Kubernetes.
• A proactive approach to spotting problems, areas for improvement, and performance bottlenecks along with an ability to offer and implement solutions to address these.
• Experience creating dashboards to track service health that appeal to both technical and non-technical audiences preferably with Splunk.

● Security clearance level:

• Secret to start, must be able to obtain TS/SCI

● US citizenship required

● Preferred requirements:

• Experience working with identity and access management technologies and solutions.
• Experience with Agile development methodologies; using collaboration tools such as Jira and Confluence.
• Experience with monitoring and logging solutions, specifically Splunk
• Any of the following: AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate or AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate or any Professional level of the above-mentioned certs where applicable
• 1+ years’ experience working with Gitlab
• Skilled at creating Ansible playbooks, working with AWX/Ansible Tower

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