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:
Systems Engineering

Job Qualifications:

Skills:
Cloud Platform, Management Tools, Systems Design
Certifications:
None
Experience:
5 years of related experience
ship Required:
No

Job Description:

Seize your opportunity with GDIT to make a personal impact as a Cloud Engineer supporting the Administrative Office of the US Courts (AOUSC) Case Management Systems Office (CMSO). GDIT is your place to make meaningful contributions to this challenging project and grow a rewarding career.

At GDIT, people are our differentiator. As a Cloud Engineer, you will help support the AOCMSO in its modernization effort for one of its mission-critical applications used by U.S. district and appellate court staff and external users. CMSO has a mature agile practice using the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and supports a broad range of complex business systems which are instrumental to the AOmission.

HOW A Cloud Engineer WILL MAKE AN IMPACT

• Support the customer and the application move to cloud services for development and production environments, including FinOps and licensing in the cloud.
• Implement and design server, network, and software configurations for a cloud computing infrastructure and applications with a focus on DevOps principles.
• Support large scale infrastructure migration methodologies and techniques (IaaS/PaaS) including application migrations to cloud platforms (AWS, Azure).
• Support cloud solution resources, both IaaS and PaaS, that enable the business to securely run sensitive workloads within a cloud.
• Track and maintain cloud resources (e.g., compute, storage, networking).
• Implement and enforce tagging policies to improve asset visibility and cost attribution.
• Monitor resource utilization, identify underused assets, and recommend rightsizing or decommissioning.
• Ensure cloud assets adhere to security, governance, and compliance frameworks.
• Analyze cloud spend, generate cost reports, and provide visibility into cloud expenses.
• Work with financial teams to forecast cloud costs and set budgets.
• Identify cost-saving opportunities, such as reserved instances, savings plans, or spot instances.
• Set up alerts for unusual cost spikes and investigate potential overspending.
• Ensure cloud resources are used efficiently while supporting performance and scalability.
• Assist in establishing policies for resource provisioning, usage limits, and cost control.
• Build dashboards for real-time financial insights.

WHAT YOU'LL NEED TO SUCCEED

Education and Experience

• BA/BS in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or other related scientific or technical discipline.
• 5 years of experience with deploying and managing applications and systems to commercial private clouds.
• Comprehensive knowledge of security compliance and security control.
• Extensive administration experience in GPU-based platforms.
• Demonstrated experience in optimizing computing performance and measurement.
• Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform).
• Experience with cloud governance, IAM policies, and security best practices.
• Understanding of cloud pricing models, including on-demand, reserved instances, savings plans, and spot instances.
• Experience with cost monitoring tools like AWS Cost Explorer, Azure Cost Management, or Google Cloud Billing.
• Experience in budgeting, forecasting, chargeback/showback models, and cloud financial governance.
• Experience in cloud asset inventory management, including tracking and optimizing cloud resources.
• Experience Implementing compliance frameworks.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform.
• Experience with APIs & SDKs to pull cost and usage data from cloud platforms.
• Experience with dashboarding & visualization tools.

Required Skills and Abilities Skills:

• Familiarity with standard concepts, practices, and procedures of cloud technology, including Software as Service (SaaS), Platform as Service (PaaS), or Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).
• Proficient skills in shell scripting, Ruby, Perl, Python, or PowerShell.
• Familiarity with cloud services like compute (EC2, VMs), storage (S3, Bob, GCS), databases (RDS, SQL), and networking.
• Ability to analyze cost reports, detect anomalies, and implement cost optimization strategies.
• Knowledge of tagging strategies to allocate costs effectively.
• Familiarity with configuration management tools like AWS Config, Azure Policy, or Google Cloud Asset Inventory.
• Familiarity with SQL or Excel for data analysis.
• Ability to work closely with engineering, finance, procurement, and leadership teams.
• Excellent organization and time management skills and ability to identify priorities to accomplish a variety of tasks simultaneously.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills and ability to work with people at every level.

Preferred Qualifications

• Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)/FinOps Practitioner

The likely salary range for this position is $89,250 - $120,750. 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:
None

Telecommuting Options:
Remote

Work Location:
USA DC Washington

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. 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 30 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.

We connect people with the most impactful client missions, creating an unparalleled work experience that allows them to see their impact every day. We create opportunities for our people to lead and learn simultaneously. From securing our nation's most sensitive systems, to enabling digital transformation and cloud adoption, our people are the ones who make change real.

Equal Opportunity Employer / Individuals with Disabilities / Protected Veterans

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