Principal Cloud Engineer

Type of Requisition:
Regular
Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:
None
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:
None Public Trust/Other Required:
None
Job Family:
IT Infrastructure and Operations Job Qualifications:
Skills:
AWS CloudFormation, Cloud Architectures, Cloud Computing, Infrastructure Automation, Solution Architecture Certifications:
None Experience:
6 + years of related experience US Citizenship Required:
No
Job Description:

Advance how our customers operate while you advance your career. Join GDIT as a Cloud Engineer Principal and build an impactful career in enterprise IT, collaborating with people who are driven and resourceful like you.

As a Cloud Engineer Principal, the work you’ll do at GDIT will be impactful to the mission of Healthcare Fraud prevention Partnership (HFPP) Trusted Third party (TTP). You will play a crucial role in the mission of fighting fraud waste and abuse.
MEANINGFUL WORK AND PERSONAL IMPACT:

- Design, implement, modernize, and operationally support AWS-based cloud environments and hybrid cloud infrastructure.

- Develop and maintain cloud architecture patterns, reference architectures, reusable templates, and engineering standards for secure, scalable, resilient, and cost-effective platforms.

- Independently drive complex cloud initiatives, owning detailed design and implementation across infrastructure, application support, data engineering, cybersecurity, networking, and operations domains.

- Design, deploy, document, and validate multi-environment cloud infrastructure, including development, test, staging, production, and disaster recovery environments.

- Configure and manage AWS services to meet business, mission, security, availability, and performance requirements.

- Design and manage Amazon VPC environments, including subnets, route tables, network access control lists, security groups, private connectivity, DNS, load balancing, and network segmentation.

- Implement and maintain identity and access management practices, including AWS IAM roles, users, groups, policies, least-privilege access, privileged-access controls, and federation strategies.

- Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code solutions using AWS CloudFormation, and equivalent automation frameworks.

- Build and improve automation for cloud provisioning, configuration management, image deployment, bootstrapping, scaling, monitoring, remediation, and operational workflows.

- Implement and improve observability capabilities using Amazon CloudWatch and related monitoring, logging, alerting, tracing, and dashboarding tools.

- Perform incident response, root-cause analysis, problem management, capacity planning, performance tuning, and reliability improvements for production cloud environments.

- Implement security-by-design practices, including vulnerability management, encryption, secrets management, logging, audit readiness, security monitoring, and compliance alignment.

- Implement cloud and on-premises integration solutions, including connectivity, identity, data movement, backups, storage, and operational support models.

- Support Linux and Windows environments, clustered file systems, storage, networking, SAN, backup, and large-scale data platforms as applicable.

- Execute technical upgrades, platform enhancements, lifecycle management, and migration activities, including containerization of legacy workloads.

- Develop technical documentation, including architecture diagrams, engineering standards, implementation plans, runbooks, system design documents, operating procedures, and knowledge articles.

- Conduct proof-of-concept efforts and technical evaluations for emerging cloud, automation, data, security, and AI technologies.

- Develop and execute system, integration, performance, security, resiliency, and disaster recovery testing.

- Provide technical mentorship, code and design reviews, and practical guidance to cloud engineers, systems administrators, and DevOps practitioners.

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