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Southland Steel Fabricators, Inc.

engineering opportunity

Cloud Engineer Principal

The Cloud Engineer Principal will design, architect, deploy, and maintain cloud solutions while ensuring system integrity and security. They will also develop automation scripts and collaborate with teams to provide strategic technical solutions.

Louisiana, Missouri, United StatesremoteFULL_TIME

Posted

About the role

What will you do at Southland Steel Fabricators, Inc.?

Telecommunting: Remote

Travel Requirement: Less than 10%

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Possess: None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None

Public Trust/Other Required: None

Own the opportunity as a Cloud Engineer Principal and help ensure the mission is never interrupted. At GDIT, we deliver clarity with our cloud solutions and provide meaningful work. Your work will be an important part of transforming our clients for the modern age and helping them face any obstacle.

At GDIT, people are our differentiator. As a Cloud Engineer Principal you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Our work depends on a Cloud Engineer Principal joining our dynamic team to work in a fast-paced environment with engineering, migration, and operations.

We’re looking for a self-starter, to work both as part of the team and on individual assignments, in an environment of customer mission delivery, integrity, and communications.

We’re looking to fill this role with someone who currently has the cloud experience, certifications, and skills to execute in large environments, is flexible and enjoys tackling challenges, and desires to join a large team that is building and sustaining a large multi-tenant cloud platform/enterprise and migrating/expanding/automating the enterprise. If this sounds like you and you love to learn and grow with a team while delivering program milestones, then we’d love to hear from you!

HOW A CLOUD ENGINEER PRINCIPAL WILL MAKE AN IMPACT:

Designs, architects, deploys and maintains cloud solutions

Maintains the integrity and security of systems

Maintains all documentation

Supports and develops automation

Develop in languages such as Bash, PowerShell, Python

Maintains/enhances knowledge of related (AWS / Azure / GCP / OCI) cloud services

Monitors and tunes the cloud systems to achieve optimum performance levels

Work across teams and external customer groups to develop strategy, design solutions, and advise implementation teams during infrastructure buildouts

Deal with escalations. Make assessments, recommendations or provide solutions to resolve issues

Write and maintain standard operating procedures and work instructions, knowledge articles, etc.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED:

Education: Technical Training, Certification(s) or Degree, 5-8+ years of experience with cloud engineering and operations

Experience: Experience with Cloud Computing - AWS / Azure / GCP / OCI

Technical Skills: Linux, Windows Server

Skills and Abilities: Excellent communication skills with demonstrated experience delivering presentations to diverse audiences at various levels of an organization

Security Clearance Level: Must be able to pass a background check to obtain a position of Public Trust

Location: Remote

Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States. This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

GDIT IS YOUR PLACE

At GDIT, the mission is our purpose, and our people are at the center of everything we do.

Growth: AI-powered career tool that identifies career steps and learning opportunities

Support: An internal mobility team focused on helping you achieve your career goals

Rewards: Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages, 401K with company match, and competitive pay and paid time off

Community: Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace

OWN YOUR OPPORTUNITY

Explore a career in software development at GDIT and you’ll find endless opportunities to grow alongside colleagues who share your dedication to advancing innovation.

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Salary Information

The likely salary range for this position is $128,039 - $173,229. 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.

Benefits

Information

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.

Our Identity Verification Process

As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during virtual interviews. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud.

By proceeding, you authorize the collection, processing, and use of your biometric data for identity verification and security purposes.

About Our Work

We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers technology solutions and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 26,000 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 mission-ready capabilities in AI, cloud, cyber and software development.

Join our Talent Community to stay up to date on our career opportunities and events at https://gdit.com/tc

Equal Opportunity Employer / Individuals with Disabilities / Protected Veterans

Which skills does this role require?

Cloud engineeringAWSAzureGCPOCILinuxWindows ServerBashPowerShellPythonAutomationCloud architectureSystem monitoringInfrastructure buildoutsCommunication skillsCloud EngineerCloud ComputingInfrastructureSystem AdministrationMulti-tenant cloudEnterprise migrationPublic TrustSecuritySoftware development

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