Azure Cloud Developer

Seize your opportunity to make a personal impact as an Azure Cloud Developer supporting our HHS HRSA customer for their cloud migrations. GDIT is your place to make meaningful contributions to challenging projects and grow a rewarding career. 

As an Azure Cloud Developer, the work you’ll do at GDIT will be impactful to the mission for HHS/HRSA. You will play a crucial role in their cloud migration activities.

• As a hands-on Mid-Level Cloud Developer, you will work with a team of engineers and SMEs to build, test, validate and demonstrate a complete TIC 3.0 environment with Akamai SASE and Azure services.

• Will support the migration of existing applications hosted in Azure to the new Azure TIC 3.0 environment in addition to migration of endpoints from Citrix NetScalers to Akamai Cloud-Based SASE solution through the development, maintenance and execution of Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC).

• Be engaged Change Request & Change Management processes that directly impact production environment through the creation and updating of Technical Implementation Plans (TIP) and attending & presenting changes to the Control Advisory Board (CAB).

• Work with the team to develop required alerting, monitoring, logging and security requirements (SSL Certificates, PKI, Splunk, CISA Talon Claw, SolarWinds, Uptime, CrowdStrike, etc.).

• Implement SSO Solutions using OKTA or SAML technology.

• Document and adhere to Standard Operating Procedures (SOP).

Responsibilities:

• Document System Security Plan/controls to ensure Cloud SASE solution is deployed meeting NIST 800-53 requirements.

• Work with Program and Project management throughout the period of performance (POP).

• Attend standing, adhoc team and customer meetings.

• Perform post migration activities including remediating any issues identified during and after business-hours.

• Provide training to the government, and their successors, on details of the migration process.

• Participates in special projects, as needed.

• Resolve technical problems that occur and on-call support for non-business hours.

• Provide Weekly and on-demand Status Reports on work performed.

* Must be able to obtain a Position of Trust and successfully pass a thorough Government background screening process requiring the completion of detailed forms and fingerprinting.* 

* Must be able to visit customer location for fingerprinting and badging purposes.*

* Must have resided in the United States in the past three (3) of five (5) years.*

Required Skills:

• Minimum with High School Degree with 8+ years of related IT work experience 

• 5+ years of experience working in an Azure environment

• 5+ years of experience in large-scale, enterprise organizations

• Azure, CompTIA Security+, CrowdStrike certifications

• Understanding of Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) using tools such as ARM, Terraform and/or CFT.

• Experience with PowerShell, Python, Bash, Git, XML, AWS CLI, Azure CLI and JSON.

• Familiar with AKS and EKS for supporting containers.

• Hands-on experience with event logging (Azure Events Hub, Splunk, etc.).

• Exposure to CyberArk, Cisco AnyConnect, and Zscaler.

• Strong understanding of networking, DNS, Load-Balancers, Application Gateways, firewall rules, network security groups (NSG) and Web Application Firewalls (WAF).

Desired Skills:

• Experience with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Visual Studio Code and MS Teams.

• Experience with ITIL and Agile Methodologies (SCRUM, SAFe) and their ceremonies.

• Demonstrated experience performing complex technical tasks in pursuit of overall goals with minimal direction.

• Demonstrated experience to analyze test results and suggest mitigations options should problems arise.

• Demonstrated technical experiences with networking design for cloud-hosted applications.

• Experience communicating with customers and stakeholders.

• Possess a broad knowledge of Cloud and Information Security policies.