AWS Cloud Engineer

**ACTIVE TS/SCI SECURITY CLEARANCE REQUIRED** Transform technology into opportunity as a Cloud Engineer with GDIT. A career in enterprise IT means connecting and enhancing the systems that matter most. At GDIT you'll be at the forefront of innovation and play a meaningful part in improving how agencies operate. As a Cloud Engineer you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Our work depends on a TS/SCI level Cloud Engineer joining our team to support our intelligence customer in Springfield, VA or St. Louis, MO. HOW A CLOUD ENGINEER WILL MAKE AN IMPACT The Cloud Engineer will be responsible for working with highly functional development team automating service deployments; optimizing system performance; integrating with enterprise authentication services; establishing/improving system monitoring; maintaining established security protocols; providing customers technical support. The Cloud Engineer will be integrated with an agile environment participating with scrums and other meetings. Specific Duties and Responsibilities: Work with A&A Team to maintain security requirements for operation of systems Maintain and improve existing infrastructure (build out autoscaling, support new services, optimize cost efficiencies/authentication/search, etc) Produce detailed documentation Maintain System in AWS environment using EC2, S3, Load Balancer, and RDS Automate and optimize service deployments Delivering a full-stack web application to production; identifying and resolving operational issues in same Actively participating in technical requirements-gathering process (i.e. meetings with customers) Executing design and implementation of application features, independently / unassisted, with minimal oversight Refactoring legacy application code for improved reliability and maintainability Mentoring junior developers Writing and reading unit tests; understanding code-quality analysis concepts Writing and debugging Javascript, Typescript, or closely-related language Developing applications backed by a relational database; understanding RDB design concepts WHAT YOU'LL NEED TO SUCCEED: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Programming, Science, Engineering or a related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical training, or work/military experience 8+ years IT experience Meet DoD 8570 IAT Level II requirements including one of the following: Security+ CE, CND, SSCP, GSEC, GICSP, CySA+, or CCNA Strong knowledge of Amazon Web Services 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 Extensive Typescript or Javascript background Angular frontend framework; UI/UX design Microservice-based backend architecture; integrating with COTS/FOSS software REST…