# SENIOR CLOUD DEVELOPER

**Company**: GDIT
**Location**: Herndon, VA
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $165,750 - $224,250
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Transform technology into opportunity as a Senior Cloud Developer at GDIT. Shape what's next for mission-critical government projects while shaping what's next for your engineering career.

As a Senior Cloud Developer, the work you'll do at GDIT will be impactful to the mission of defensive cyber. You will play a crucial role in helping establish a cloud platform and enabling AI capabilities for 24x7x365 mission critical systems. This position does not require on-premise 24x7 support but may require occasional after-hour support.

**Responsibilities:**

- Build secure, scalable applications on a fast-paced engineering team

- Review and adjudicate pull requests according to team standards and security guidelines

- Troubleshoot and fine-tune existing code to make it more efficient or scalable

- Develop custom frontend and backend services to accommodate novel custom use cases

- Expand existing libraries and microservices to integrate with new data sources and external APIs

- Communicate with stakeholders to obtain requirements and iterate on a minimum viable product (MVP)

- Work with relevant personnel to usher an enterprise software tool through accreditation and security review milestones

- Work cooperatively with project managers and product owners to ensure maximum alignment with stakeholder requirements

- May be required to support Linux infrastructure and systems

- Perform fault-finding, analysis, and logging of information for reporting of performance exceptions

- Manage, coordinate, and implement software releases, and hot fixes on applicable systems

- Create and modify scripts or applications to perform tasks

- Provide input on ways to improve the stability, security, efficiency, and scalability of the environment

- Collaborate with other teams and team members to develop automation strategies and deployment processes

- Use broader technical skills to assist with other projects within the Systems Engineering and Operations (SEO) team

**Requirements:**

- Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science, or the equivalent combination of education, technical certifications or training, or work experience

- 5+ years of Cloud Engineering experience

- Strong familiarity with at least one object-oriented programming language (Python, Java, etc.)

- Strong familiarity with at least one web framework (Django, Node.js, .NET, etc.)

- Experience deploying applications to the cloud

- Familiarity with cloud-based relational database (RDS, Azure SQL, etc.) and object storage technologies (S3, Blob Storage, etc.)

**Desired Skills:**

- Experience with cloud-based Kubernetes and/or other containerization technologies (ECR, EKS, AKS, etc.)

- Experience with making existing source code more efficient

- Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Tofu, etc.)

- Experience with AI tools for programming (Claude Code, OpenCode, Codex, etc.)

- Experience with Shell, Bash, and/or Python scripting

- Linux security hardening; and protocols such as SSH, SFTP, DNS, HTTP, LDAP, SMTP, and SNMP

- VMware architecture and configuration, VM spinups and patching

- Strong problem-solving and communication skills

**Benefits:**

- 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

## Skills

### Required
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Cloud Development
- Python
- Terraform

### Nice to have
- Kubernetes
- containerization technologies
- infrastructure-as-code
- AI tools for programming
- Shell
- Bash
- Python scripting
- Linux security hardening
- VMware architecture and configuration

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