Performance & Data Optimization Engineer

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

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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 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, perform workload analysis, and guide scaling and cost-optimization decisions • Collaborate with platform engineers, DBAs, architects, application teams, data governance teams, and data quality teams • Maintain access controls, user roles, and identity integrations including SSO, MFA, and JENIE-based least-privilege enforcement • Provide disaster recovery and continuity options, including high availability, fault tolerance, and automated failover • 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 with real-time dashboards • 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 at agreed intervals • Deliver monthly reports covering incidents, stability, performance, configurations, ticket volume, and resolution times • Support high availability, disaster recovery, and business continuity requirements • 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’ experience in IT systems engineering, systems development, systems coding, and programming • 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) • Deep expertise in AWS services across compute, storage, networking, monitoring, and logging • Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code tools: Terraform, CloudFormation, and Azure Bicep • Experience with monitoring/APM platforms including CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, and New Relic • Strong background in incident response, change management, and ITIL operations • Experience with CI/CD toolchains including Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab, and ArgoCD • Strong scripting abilities in Python, PowerShell, and Bash • Advanced DevSecOps and GitOps implementation experience • Hands-on experience building, testing, and maintaining containerized applications • Expertise in version control, build/release engineering, and enterprise-scale CI/CD pipelines • Experience with FinOps, cost modeling, forecasting, and cloud cost optimization • Knowledge of FedRAMP, NIST, and JISF Rev 5 • Strong log/metric analysis and cloud performance-tuning skills • 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 • Strong performance-monitoring and troubleshooting capabilities • Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills • Preferred experience with Snowflake, Databricks, Amazon Redshift, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Oracle, or equivalent platforms • Preferred experience optimizing large-scale analytical workloads • Preferred but not required: listed professional certifications

🏖️ Benefits

• Comprehensive medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts • Dental plan options • Vision plan options • 401(k) plan with company match • Full-flex work weeks where possible • Vacation, sick, and personal paid time off • Paid holidays • Paid parental leave • Military leave • Bereavement leave • Jury duty leave • 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 • Growth and learning opportunities • Award-winning culture of innovation • Military-friendly workplace