Cloud Software Developer (Node.js and React.js required) - State of Louisiana

Cloud Software Developer

Telecommuting: Remote

Travel Requirement: Less than 10%

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Possess: None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None

Public Trust/Other Required: BI Full 6C (T4)

GDIT is seeking a Cloud Software Developer with strong hands-on experience building, deploying, and maintaining modern cloud-native applications in AWS. You will work as part of an Agile team responsible for designing scalable architectures, developing Node.js/React applications, automating infrastructure with Terraform, and ensuring secure and reliable cloud operations.

This role requires practical, demonstrable engineering experience across Linux, AWS services, infrastructure-as-code, and JavaScript development.

As a Cloud Software Developer, the work you'll do at GDIT will be impactful to the mission of our customers. You will play a crucial role via the following core responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain cloud-native applications using Node.js, React.js, and related frameworks
• Implement infrastructure-as-code using Terraform or AWS CDK
• Build and deployment of pipelines and platform operations
• Perform Linux-based troubleshooting and root-cause analysis
• Implement secure-by-design patterns and participate in compliance/hardening tasks
• Collaborate with teams deploying and operating workloads using AWS services (such as, but not limited to: Lambda, EC2, S3, CloudWatch, API Gateway, VPC, IAM)
• Collaborate with UI/UX designers, cloud engineers, architects, and DevOps teams

This role will require you to obtain and maintain a Public Trust and will require you to provide onsite fingerprinting at a designated facility. This investigation may review personal and criminal behavior, financial conduct, foreign influence, as well as other adjudications.

Bring your engineering expertise along with a drive for innovation to GDIT. The Cloud Software Developer must have:

Education:

• Technical Training, Certificate, or Degree required
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Programming, Computer Engineering or relevant experience preferred

Experience:

• 5+ years of related experience with AWS cloud computing required
• 7+ years of total IT experience preferred

Required Skills:

• Proficiency in Node.js and JavaScript/TypeScript
• Experience building and maintaining React.js front-end applications
• Strong knowledge of Linux fundamentals: navigation, logs, permissions, troubleshooting techniques
• Practical experience designing and deploying solutions in AWS, including core services and networking
• Hands-on experience with Terraform or CDK (modules, variables, state mgmt.)
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools (such as, but not limited to: GitLab, GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline, Jenkins)
• Understanding of RESTful APIs and event-driven patterns
• Ability to explain architectural tradeoffs, troubleshooting steps, and real-world problem solving
• Experience building and deploying pipelines and platform operations

Security Clearance Level: Must be able to pass a background check to obtain a position of Public Trust.

***Must be US Person (Green Card Holder, US Permanent Resident Alien, Refugee, Asylee, or US Citizen)***

Location: State of Louisiana

• Candidates within Louisiana who reside within 60 miles of GDIT's Integrated Technology Center in Bossier City, LA will follow a hybrid work model
• Candidates within Louisiana who reside more than 60 miles from GDIT's Integrated Technology Center in Bossier City, LA will follow a remote work model

At GDIT, the mission is our purpose, and our people are at the center of everything we do.

• Growth: AI-powered career tool that identifies career steps and learning opportunities
• Support: An internal mobility team focused on helping you achieve your career goals
• Rewards: Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages, 401K with company match, and competitive pay and paid time off

Explore a career in software development at GDIT and you'll find endless opportunities to grow alongside colleagues who share your dedication to advancing innovation.

The likely salary range for this position is $128,039 - $173,229. 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.

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.

Equal Opportunity Employer / Individuals with Disabilities / Protected Veterans