# Cloud Administrator

**Company**: GDIT
**Location**: Herndon, VA
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $142,792 - $190,523
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Accelerate your career as a Cloud Administrator while supporting mission-focused customer operations. This role blends cloud administration, DevOps support, observability, and reliability engineering. You will optimize, implement, and maintain cloud-based systems; deploy and debug infrastructure; build monitoring and logging solutions; and drive cloud initiatives across distributed systems.

**REQUIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:**

- Experience with programming/scripting languages (Java, Python, Bash, Ruby) for automation and operational tasks, not full-scale software development.

- Strong programming or scripting skills to interpret, modify, and implement code used for automation, tooling, and operational processes, not full application development.

- Experience with DevOps/Platforms: Amazon Web Services (S3, RDS, EC2, ECS, Lambda, SQS, SNS, CloudFormation, etc.), Docker, Ansible.

- Experience utilizing DevOps tools such as GitHub and Jenkins to support CI/CD deployment pipelines.

- Experience deploying and managing containerized workloads using Kubernetes and Helm Charts.

- Experience applying and maintaining Infrastructure as Code (IaC) capabilities to support provisioning, configuration, and workflow automation of cloud environments.

- Experience working with open-source technologies in support of system operations, configuration, automation, and platform maintenance.

- Experience implementing, configuring, and maintaining observability capabilities to support operational reliability, including monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting (e.g., CloudWatch, ELK Stack, Logstash, Icinga).

- Experience analyzing system performance, reviewing telemetry data, detecting anomalies, and identifying areas for reliability improvements.

- Experience troubleshooting incidents, participating in on-call rotations, and contributing to post-incident reviews.

- Experience managing cloud lifecycle operations such as patching, vulnerability remediation, scaling and resource management within cloud environments.

- Experience managing TLS/SSL certificate lifecycles, including issuance, renewal, rotation, and integration with cloud services.

- Identify, analyze, and resolve infrastructure vulnerabilities and deployment issues, while reviewing existing systems and recommending improvements for performance and operational efficiency.

- Experience updating system maintenance and support documentation, including standard operating procedures (SOPs), runbooks, and technical design specifications used by operations team members and the customer.

- Strong understanding of web services and API concepts, including REST, and how these interfaces enable communication and integration across cloud-hosted systems.

- Experience working within Agile Scrum teams to support cloud operations, contribute to planning activities, and effectively collaborate across cross-functional teams.

- Experience collaborating with customer teams to provide cloud operational support, address technical needs, and recommend solutions aligned with customer requirements.

- Experience applying compliance, authentication, authorization, access control, and operational governance practices across cloud-hosted systems.

- Familiarity with Assessment & Authorization (A&A) processes and associated artifact collection workflows.

**What You'll Need to Succeed:**

- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical certifications or training, or work experience.

- Experience: 8+ years.

- Security Clearance Level: TS/SCI with Polygraph.

- Location: Herndon, VA – On Customer Site.

- US Citizenship Required.

**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.

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## Skills

### Required
- DevOps
- GitHub
- Scripting Languages
- Java
- Python
- Bash
- Ruby
- Amazon Web Services
- Docker
- Ansible
- Kubernetes
- Helm Charts
- Infrastructure as Code

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