AWS Cloud Engineer — IaC, Automation & Windows Pro

gdit; Rockville (MD); Hybrid; USD 124,000 - 136,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical plan

Health Savings Account

Dental plan

Vision plan

401(k) with company match

Flexible work weeks

Paid time off

Job summary

GDIT in Rockville, MD is recruiting an AWS Cloud Engineer to support the NIAID team. The role covers infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, and administration of Windows Server, Active Directory, and SQL Server estates.

The engineer leads design decisions and mentors junior engineers, with a hybrid schedule requiring three onsite days per week in Rockville. Applicants should have 4+ years of IT experience, strong AWS skills, Terraform, PowerShell and Python, plus experience with incident

Qualifications

• Bachelors and 4+ years of relevant IT experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Experience independently owning cloud infrastructure design and setting technical direction on complex initiatives.
• Experience translating customer/stakeholder requirements into implemented technical solutions.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain highly available AWS environments for reliability, performance, and cost efficiency.
• Build and manage infrastructure as code using Terraform, including reusable modules and pipelines.
• Develop automation tooling, scripts, and lightweight internal applications (PowerShell, Python, or similar) that streamline provisioning, configuration, and operations.
• Build developer-facing tooling, internal APIs, and self-service capabilities that improve delivery velocity.
• Administer Windows Server, including performance tuning and root cause analysis.
• Administer Active Directory, including AD DS, Group Policy, DNS, DHCP, certificate services, and integration with AWS Managed Microsoft AD.
• Administer Microsoft SQL Server on EC2 and RDS, including backup/recovery, high availability, and performance tuning.
• Support migration of Windows and SQL Server workloads from on premises to AWS.
• Monitor system health using Datadog and CloudWatch; drive incident response, runbooks, and reliability improvements.
• Serve as an escalation point for complex incidents and lead root cause analysis.
• Maintain backup/DR configurations and participate in restore testing.
• Perform capacity planning, cost optimization, and resource tagging.
• Develop technical documentation and mentor junior engineers.
• Apply AI-assisted engineering tools to accelerate IaC development and troubleshooting.

Skills

Automation

AWS Cloud Computing

GitHub Actions

Microsoft Windows Server

Terraform (Software)

Job description

GDIT in Rockville, MD is recruiting an AWS Cloud Engineer to support the NIAID team. The role covers infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, and administration of Windows Server, Active Directory, and SQL Server estates.

The engineer leads design decisions and mentors junior engineers, with a hybrid schedule requiring three onsite days per week in Rockville. Applicants should have 4+ years of IT experience, strong AWS skills, Terraform, PowerShell and Python, plus experience with incident