Network Cloud and Automation Senior Principal Engineer

Responsibilities for this Position

Location: Any Location / Remote
Full Part/Time: Full time
Job Req: RQ200782


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:
Automation Tools, Cloud Networking, Firewalls
Certifications:
None
Experience:
10 + years of related experience
US Citizenship Required:
No

Job Description:

This dynamic position at GDIT as a Network Cloud and Automation Senior Principal Engineer drives enterprise operational efficiencies through automation in cloud as Infrastructure-as-code. We are looking for someone who has a background from networks or network security prior to cloud, and you applied your on prem knowledge to cloud and automation in your career.

The position requires someone who understands cloud infrastructure, can apply their understanding to automate operational processes, and persistent in driving cultural change within and across teams within the enterprise. Cloud understanding include infrastructure rollout, operation, and troubleshooting in Azure, OCI, and AWS clouds. Automation tools must include Ansible and broad knowledge of other automation tools with their strengths and weaknesses.

You have autonomy to do your work because your peers and manager trust your judgement. You keep your work and status visible, demonstrate progress, and escalate information and issues when you know the team or manager needs to know. If you decide on a new technical direction due to new information, you inform and consult with the team, and manager so everyone is aware. You do not get stuck on a problem for too long without everyone knowing about it.

HOW A NETWORK CLOUD AND AUTOMATION SR PRINCIPAL ENGINEER WILL MAKE AN IMPACT
Designs, architects, deploys and maintains cloud solutions.
Leading major cloud architecture projects

Identifying and remediating inconsistent cloud configurations across clouds

Managing cloud automation reporting

Coordinating across network stakeholder process improvements

Managing automation code lifecycle

Maintaining cloud and automation operational metrics

WHAT YOU'LL NEED TO SUCCEED:
Education: Bachelor's degree in technical field
Required Experience: 10+ years of related experience
Required Technical Skills:

• Strong networking experience troubleshooting and designing, especially cloud VPN deployments
• Strong Firewall experience with network and cloud firewalls, able to troubleshoot firewall issues across native cloud and device firewalls
• Experience with cloud networks -how cloud networks differ from traditional networking, focus on Azure Cloud and Oracle Cloud
• Automation experience - developing and supporting automation for your previous jobs, focused on ansible experience or general Python experience as it applies to cloud and networks
• Comfortable with navigating Linux, network routers, etc.

Preferred Skills:

• Containers - experience with container networking including Kubernetes and cloud native container services
• DNS - experience with cloud DNS and how DNS affects data flows across clouds
• Project Management - experience on gathering minimal viable requirements and independently working through solutions to delivery. Experience coordinating a project across teams, identifying risks and mitigation
• API Automation development as it pertains to networks and cloud
• Cloud Data Flows - experience assessing PaaS and SaaS services and how data flow across security boundaries

Location: 100% Remote Position

GDIT IS YOUR PLACE:
Full-flex work week to own your priorities at work and at home
401K with company match
Comprehensive health and wellness packages
Internal mobility team dedicated to helping you own your career
Professional growth opportunities including paid education and certifications
Cutting-edge technology you can learn from
Rest and recharge with paid vacation and holidays

The likely salary range for this position is $146,536 - $195,500. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Scheduled Weekly Hours:
40

Travel Required:
Less than 10%

Telecommuting Options:
Remote

Work Location:
Any Location / Remote

Additional Work Locations:

Total Rewards at GDIT:
Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. GDIT typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and an additional 10 paid holidays per year. Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee's date of hire. The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers consulting, technology and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 30,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. We operate across 50 countries worldwide, offering leading capabilities in digital modernization, AI/ML, Cloud, Cyber and application development. Together with our clients, we strive to create a safer, smarter world by harnessing the power of deep expertise and advanced technology.

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