Cloud Operations/DevOps Support - Remote

We are GDIT. The people supporting and securing some of the most complex government, defense, and intelligence projects across the country. We ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Our work has meaning and impact on the world around us, but also on us, and that’s important. 

GDIT is your place. You make it your own by embracing autonomy, seizing opportunity, and being trusted to deliver your best every day. 

We think. We act. We deliver. There is no challenge we can’t turn into an opportunity. And our work depends on a Cloud Operations/DevOps Support Resource joining our team to support the United States Postal Service (USPS) activities located remotely. 

At GDIT, people are our differentiator. In this role, a typical day will include:

• Deploy, configure, and manage Cloud services; Cloud focus currently is Azure but could include work within Google Cloud Platform; NCT is responsible for ensuring success of infrastructure and operations needs for USPS
• Assist NCT Innovation staff with following best practices for Cloud, maximizing efficiency of cloud resources, and general knowledge sharing of cloud expertise with NCT Cloud Staff 
• Assist with Operationalizing deployments and support of Cloud services for NCT Operations; This will include standardizing and automating processes and workflows, creating documentation/knowledge articles, and overall assist Operations staff who have limited experience in Cloud
• Written and oral presentation to high level USPS CIO management on statues of current efforts 

WHAT YOU’LL NEED:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Computer Science
• 10+ years of professional experience
• 7+ years of minimum experience in the Cloud Operations (Azure, GCP)
• Strong skills and experience in Cloud Operations support in Azure and Google Cloud Platform  
• Strong Experience supporting large scale/enterprise level Cloud environments 
• Strong Experience supporting several cloud services related to compute, network, databases, etc
• Experience of automation/orchestration using any of the following: Ansible, Ansible Tower, Terraform, YAML, Jenkins, or equivalent. 
• Must have experience in Enterprise Operations and Support
• Fluency in at least one scripting language (Python, Perl, Ruby or equivalent) 
• Ability to troubleshoot cloud resource problems and perform complex system tests 
• Develop and maintain accurate documentation for internal procedures and services 
• Ability to automate solutions to repetitive problems/tasks 
• Ability to use a wide variety of open-source technologies and cloud services 
• Integration of Git, in continuous deployment 
• Experience with DevOps monitoring tools  
• Knowledge of best practices and IT operations in an always-up, always-available service 
• Creative thinking skills 
• Detail-oriented personality 
• Ability to communicate well to other members of the development team 

DESIRED:

• Strong understanding of cloud networking at scale 
• Ability to break down complex networking concepts and present them in a concise way 
• Shell scripting experience 
• PowerShell  
• Kubernetes 

WHAT GDIT CAN OFFER YOU: 

• Full-flex work week 
• 401K with company match 
• Challenging work that makes a real impact on the world around you 
• Diverse, highly collaborative teams 

The security clearance for this program requires the selected candidate to have resided in the US for the past five years. The selected candidate cannot have left the country for longer than 90 consecutive days and no more than 180 cumulative days.  We can only accept Green Card Holders or US Citizens for this program.  

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