Junior Full Stack Platform Engineer - AWS

Type of Requisition:
Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:
None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:
None

Public Trust/Other Required:
NACLC (T3)

Job Family:
Cloud

Job Qualifications:

Skills:
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Cloud Development, Docker (Software), Node.js, TypeScript
Certifications:
None
Experience:
2 + years of related experience
ship Required:
No

Job Description:

GDIT is seeking a Junior Full Stack Platform Engineer with a hunger for supporting an evolving cloud development and hosting platform to join our Cloud Platform team supporting the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).

In this role, you will work alongside talented full stack and infrastructure developers and engineers as part of an Agile platform team to support software delivery and application hosting using Amazon Web Services (AWS). Your primary focus will be on testing, supporting, debugging, troubleshooting, and maintaining features across all layers of our platform stack. You will be expected to participate in regular scrum ceremonies, collaborate with senior engineers, and contribute to the implementation of robust and reliable services and APIs. You will also engage in knowledge sharing with the broader Platform Team, enabling the successful use of the services we build and maintain. Additionally, you will apply best practices in version control, containerization, and CI/CD deployments, practicing DevOps skills daily to help maintain and update the system we develop.

This role is hybrid with 1 day onsite in Rockville, MD. Travel expenses will not be reimbursed.

Work Visa sponsorship will not be provided for this role.

HOW A JUNIOR FULL STACK PLATFORM ENGINEER WILL MAKE AN IMPACT:

• Support platform development by learning, documenting, and shaping internal developer experience (DX) and paved paths
• Collaborate in designing platform features through active participation in team scrum activities
• Support the development and maintenance of front and back-end solutions using Angular, Moleculer JS microservices, and NodeJS hosted on AWS ECS
• Drive the collection, reporting, and observability of key metrics using tools like DataDog, SumoLogic, and AWS CloudWatch
• Work with various SQL and No-SQL databases, including MongoDB, AWS DynamoDB, and AWS SSM Parameter Store
• Manage system deployment using infrastructure as code tools like Terraform and AWS CloudFormation
• Maintain code integrity and organization with Git/GitHub
• Track and remediate security and dependency update alerts
• Participate in release management and maintain CI/CD pipelines from AWS CodeBuild to GoCD
• Collaborate on tasks from requirements to deployment using Wrike
• Troubleshoot and support issues across the stack, hunting and squashing bugs reporting to our engineering and development team
• Create and update documentation

WHAT YOU'LL NEED TO SUCCEED

Required Qualifications:

• 2+ years related experience with Technical Training, Certification(s) or Degree
• General experience with Microservices, RESTful Web Services, and HTTP APIs
• Experience reading, writing, and debugging TypeScript, and developing single-page web applications using Angular
• An awareness of AWS Infrastructure Services, particularly ECS, SQS, Lambda, and EventBridge
• Familiarity with AWS JavaScript SDK, Node.js, JSON, XML, and consuming cloud APIs
• Experience with CI/CD, Git/GitHub, and artifact management
• Working knowledge of SQL/noSQL/Object database systems such as MongoDB, AWS SSM Parameter Store, and S3

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong desire to be part of a team maintaining and supporting internal development and cloud hosting platforms
• General experience or awareness of microservice systems development
• Experience with Azure cloud computing
• Experience reading, writing, and troubleshooting Terraform infrastructure as code, and other forms of infrastructure as code (e.g., CloudFormation)
• Experience with various programming and scripting languages such as Python, Ruby, and TCL
• Experience with database, data integration, and visualization applications such as MongoDB Atlas Charts and Grafana
• Experience using and working within the SumoLogic platform
• Experience with DBMS such as MySQL, AuroraSQL, and PostgreSQL

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The likely salary range for this position is $97,750 - $132,250. 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:
Hybrid

Work Location:
USA MD Rockville

Additional Work Locations:
Any Location / Remote

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.

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.

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