Platform Engineer Sr Principal

Platform Engineer Sr Principal

Deliver simple solutions to complex problems as a Platform Engineer Sr Principal at GDIT. Here, you'll tailor cutting-edge solutions to the unique requirements of our clients. With a career in Platform Engineering, you'll make the end user's experience your priority and we'll make your career growth ours.

At GDIT, people are our differentiator. As a Platform Engineer Sr Principal you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter.

Responsibilities:

• Maintains the DevSecOps environment
• Engage in Production Support activities
• Applies practical knowledge of job typically obtained through advanced education and work experience
• May coach and provide guidance to less-experienced professionals
• May serve as a team or task lead

What You'll Need To Succeed:

• Education: Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science or equivalent experience
• Required Experience: 10 years of related experience

Required Technical Skills:

• RHEL 7/8/9 Expertise
• Experience building, modifying, and deploying custom RPMs
• Experience troubleshooting GitLab CI/CD pipeline issues
• Familiarity with YAML
• Maintaining custom systems services
• Experience deploying frontend applications behind NGINX
• Software Factory Management to include GitLab, Nexus, Azure Container Registry, SonarQube, RKE2 on K3S
• Experience deploying and maintaining Software Factories
• Experience deploying applications on RHEL
• Experience containerizing applications
• Experience writing GitLab CI/CD pipelines to deploy containerized applications to Kubernetes clusters
• Experience troubleshooting GitLab CI/CD pipeline issues
• Experience deploying resources in Azure IL2
• Experience with Azure Virtual Machines, Azure Cost analysis, Azure Virtual machine scale sets, and Azure blob storage

Security Clearance Level: TS/SCI Clearance

Required Skills and Abilities: Must meet 8570.01M certification requirements (i.e. Security+ CE), must be active/current

Preferred Skills: Experience establishing and maintaining a DevSecOps Platform Environment (PaaS)

Location: Onsite

US Citizenship Required

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 $161,500 - $218,500. 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: Onsite

Work Location: USA VA Fort Belvoir

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.

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