Cloud Dev/Ops Engineer in Aldie, Virginia at General Dynamics Information Technology

USA VA Home Office (VAHOME)
Full time
RQ219346
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:
IT Infrastructure and Operations

Job Qualifications:

Skills:
Automation, Cloud DevOps, Cloud Engineering, Networking, Troubleshooting
Certifications:
None
Experience:
10 + years of related experience
US Citizenship Required:
No

Job Description:

The Cloud DevOps Engineer delivers streamlined, effective solutions to complex technical challenges by engineering, implementing, and supporting cloud-based systems tailored to meet the needs of the business. This position plays a central role in maintaining cloud performance and reliability, ensuring the end‑user experience remains a top priority while contributing to organizational and professional growth. The role requires a commitment to operational excellence and the ability to apply modern engineering practices in support of large‑scale cloud environments.

The engineer is responsible for hands‑on development, support, troubleshooting, and maintenance of cloud‑hosted systems and enterprise applications. Candidates must demonstrate proven experience with cloud concepts, engineering, and daily operations. Key responsibilities include executing upgrades, monitoring system performance, resolving technical issues, and implementing solutions across Azure & OCI environments. This role functions as a primary contributor to daily program operations and demands strong independent problem‑solving skills.

This position leads operational efficiencies through the application of automation and Infrastructure‑as‑Code methodologies. A background in traditional networking or network security, with experience transitioning on‑premises expertise into cloud and automation practices, is essential. The ideal candidate possesses broad cloud infrastructure knowledge-spanning Azure, OCI, and AWS-covering deployment, operations, and troubleshooting. Proficiency with Ansible is required, along with familiarity with additional automation tools and an understanding of their appropriate use cases.

Success in this role requires an individual who exercises sound technical judgment, critical thinking, maintains transparent communication, and proactively escalates issues when necessary. The engineer is trusted to operate with significant autonomy while ensuring work status, progress, and challenges remain visible to peers and leadership. When new information necessitates adjustments in technical direction, the engineer is expected to consult with the team and management to maintain alignment. This role requires persistence, collaboration, and a commitment to driving cultural and operational improvements across the enterprise.

Key Responsibilities:

• Cloud Operations & Support:
  • Troubleshoot and support Azure & OCI environments
  • Perform advanced OS upgrades, patching, and system health checks.
  • Manage Firewalls, VPNs, load balancers, serverless apps, and microservices.
• Monitoring & Troubleshooting:
  • Operate observability stacks
  • Analyze logs and telemetry for performance optimization and RCA.
  • Automate tasks with Python, Bash, or Shell.
• Automation:
  • Implement Infrastructure as Code (Ansible/Python)
• Security & Governance:
  • Manage TLS/SSL certificates, secrets, and PKI processes.
  • Support USGOV Azure, Oracle, AWS and vulnerability remediation efforts.
  • Maintain security accreditation and documentation.
• Containers & Cloud Operations:
  • Deploy and optimize Kubernetes workloads and Docker containers

Required Skills & Experience (What You Bring):

• Strong networking experience troubleshooting and designing, especially cloud VPN deployments
• Strong Firewall experience with network and cloud firewalls, able to troubleshoot firewall issues across native cloud and device firewalls
• Experience with cloud networks -how cloud networks differ from traditional networking, focus on Azure Cloud and Oracle Cloud
• Automation experience - developing and supporting automation for you previous jobs, focused on ansible experience or general python experience as it applies to cloud and networks
• Comfortable with navigating Linux, network routers, etc.
• Containers - experience with container networking including Kubernetes and cloud native container services
• DNS - experience with cloud DNS and how DNS affects data flows across clouds
• Project Management - experience on gathering minimal viable requirements and independently working through solutions to delivery. Experience coordinating a project across teams, identifying risks and mitigation
• API Automation development as it pertains to networks and cloud
• Cloud Data Flows - experience assessing PaaS and SaaS services and how data flow across security boundaries

The likely salary range for this position is $123,250 - $166,750. 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:
Less than 10%

Telecommuting Options:
Remote

Work Location:
Any Location / Remote

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. 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.

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