Hybrid AWS Cloud Engineer for IaC, Automation & Windows

General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT); Falls Church (VA); Hybrid; USD 124,000 - 136,000; Full time

Job summary

General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) seeks an AWS Cloud Engineer to support the NIAID team in Rockville, MD. The role covers AWS IaC, CI/CD pipelines, Windows Server/AD/SQL Server administration, and mentoring engineers.

Hybrid work with 3 onsite days weekly; you must obtain and maintain a Public Trust and participate in fingerprinting. Expect design leadership and incident-driven reliability improvements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 4+ years of IT experience or equivalent.
• Hands-on AWS infrastructure design and direction setting.
• Experience translating requirements into technical solutions.
• Proficiency with Windows Server, AD, SQL Server, and AWS networking.
• Terraform-based infrastructure as code and automation tooling.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain highly available AWS environments.
• Develop IaC using Terraform with reusable modules and pipelines.
• Create automation tooling (PowerShell/Python) to streamline provisioning.
• Build developer tooling and self-service capabilities to improve velocity.
• Administer Windows Server, AD DS, DNS, DHCP, and AWS AD integration.
• Administer SQL Server on EC2/RDS with HA and backup/recovery.
• Monitor with Datadog/CloudWatch and lead incident response.
• Mentor junior engineers and document technical processes.

Skills

Automation

AWS Cloud Computing

GitHub Actions

Microsoft Windows Server

Terraform (Software)

Education

Bachelors degree

Job description

General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) seeks an AWS Cloud Engineer to support the NIAID team in Rockville, MD. The role covers AWS IaC, CI/CD pipelines, Windows Server/AD/SQL Server administration, and mentoring engineers.

Hybrid work with 3 onsite days weekly; you must obtain and maintain a Public Trust and participate in fingerprinting. Expect design leadership and incident-driven reliability improvements.