Performance and Data Optimization Engineer

🔥 12 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $128k - $173.2k / year

⏰ Full Time

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General Dynamics Information Technology

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1954

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

General Dynamics Information Technology is a company at the forefront of technological innovation, offering a wide range of services including consulting, digital modernization, and application services. The company is heavily involved in implementing solutions related to artificial intelligence, cloud computing, cybersecurity, high-performance computing, and quantum technologies. GDIT is committed to supporting government and defense sectors, providing mission-critical services such as logistics and supply chain management, intelligence, and homeland security. The company also focuses on diverse and inclusive hiring practices and actively promotes employee well-being. Through its digital accelerator solutions and pioneering use of emerging technologies, GDIT aims to propel agencies' missions forward and address complex technological challenges.

📋 Description

• Optimize databases and platform performance across cloud data warehouses and lakes • Monitor system health and manage incidents, events, and operational reporting • Diagnose and resolve performance bottlenecks in queries, pipelines, and resource utilization • Analyze and tune SQL, ETL/ELT, data models, ingestion patterns, and workloads for efficiency and cost • Establish and maintain SLAs, baselines, dashboards, and automated monitoring and alerting • Plan capacity and guide scaling and cost-optimization decisions • Collaborate with platform engineers, DBAs, architects, application teams, and data teams to resolve issues • Maintain access controls, user roles, SSO, MFA, and JENIE-based least-privilege enforcement • Provide high availability, fault tolerance, automated failover, disaster recovery, and business continuity options • Integrate DevSecOps tools and processes with enterprise systems • Manage centralized secrets with automated rotation, access logging, and policy enforcement • Embed SAST, DAST, SCA, and CSPM tools into CI/CD • Implement continuous 24/7 monitoring for security, performance, and compliance • Ensure automated SBOM generation and management for deployed artifacts • Provide diagnostics, metrics gathering, performance tuning, and canary-release support • Perform automated full-stack health checks • Deliver monthly reports covering incidents, stability, performance, configurations, ticket volume, and resolution times • Contribute to platform performance standards, engineering guidelines, and optimization best practices

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field • 5+ years of experience in IT system engineering, development, and programming focused on diagnosing, optimizing, and improving system and data-pipeline performance • Deep expertise in AWS services across compute, storage, networking, monitoring, and logging • Proficiency with Terraform, CloudFormation, and Azure Bicep • Experience with CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, and New Relic • Strong incident response and change management background • Experience with Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab, and ArgoCD • Strong scripting abilities in Python, PowerShell, and Bash • Advanced DevSecOps and GitOps experience • Hands-on experience building, testing, and maintaining containerized applications • Expertise in version control and enterprise CI/CD pipelines • Experience with FinOps, cost modeling, forecasting, and cloud cost optimization • Knowledge of FedRAMP, NIST, and JISF Rev 5 • Skilled in log/metric analysis and cloud performance tuning • Strong SQL and database performance-tuning skills • Experience with query optimization, indexing, partitioning, clustering, and execution-plan analysis • Familiarity with cloud data platforms and distributed data-processing environments • Preferred experience with Snowflake, Databricks, Amazon Redshift, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Oracle, or equivalent platforms • Preferred experience optimizing large-scale analytical workloads • Must be able to pass a background check to obtain a position of Public Trust • Must be a US Person (Green Card Holder, US Permanent Resident Alien, Refugee, Asylee, or US Citizen) • Less than 10% travel required • Skills include GitHub, Jira and Confluence administration, and Web Application Security

🏖️ Benefits

• Comprehensive medical plan options, including plans with Health Savings Accounts • Dental plan options • Vision plan • 401(k) plan with company match • Full-flex work weeks where possible • Paid vacation, sick, personal, holiday, parental, military, bereavement, and jury duty leave • Typically 15 days of paid leave per calendar year for new employees • 10 paid holidays per year • Up to 160 hours of paid family leave in a rolling 12-month period for eligible employees • Short- and long-term disability benefits • Life insurance • Accidental death and dismemberment insurance • Personal accident insurance • Critical illness insurance • Business travel and accident insurance • AI-powered career tool identifying career steps and learning opportunities • Internal mobility team supporting career goals • Wellness packages • Award-winning culture of innovation • Military-friendly workplace