Senior AWS Cloud Engineer — Hybrid (Rockville)

General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc.; Rockville (MD); Híbrido; USD 124 000 - 136 000; Tempo integral

Vantagens oferecidas por esta oferta de emprego

Medical plan options including dental/

Vision plan

401(k) plan with company match

Paid time off

Resumo da oferta

General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc. is seeking an experienced AWS Cloud Engineer to support the NIAID team in Rockville, MD. The role spans infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, and Windows Server/AD and SQL Server administration.

You will design, implement, and mentor others while working in a hybrid environment with three days on-site per week. The ideal candidate has 4+ years in IT, deep AWS experience, Terraform, and strong scripting skills (PowerShell, Python).

Qualificações

• Bachelors and 4+ years of 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.
• Hands-on AWS experience across compute, storage, networking, database, IAM, backup, and monitoring services.
• Experience with Terraform (or CloudFormation/CDK) for infrastructure as code.
• Strong software development background — able to build automation tools, internal services, or lightweight applications, not just administrative scripts.
• Strong PowerShell skills with working proficiency in Python.
• Deep Windows Server engineering experience, including root cause analysis.
• Experience administering Active Directory (AD DS, Group Policy, DNS, DHCP, certificate services, enterprise authentication).
• Experience administering SQL Server, including backup/recovery, HA, and RDS administration.

Responsabilidades

• 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 (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude, AWS Kiro) to accelerate IaC development and troubleshooting.

Conhecimentos

Automation

AWS Cloud Computing

GitHub Actions

Windows Server

Terraform

Ferramentas

Terraform

Descrição da oferta de emprego

General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc. is seeking an experienced AWS Cloud Engineer to support the NIAID team in Rockville, MD. The role spans infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, and Windows Server/AD and SQL Server administration.

You will design, implement, and mentor others while working in a hybrid environment with three days on-site per week. The ideal candidate has 4+ years in IT, deep AWS experience, Terraform, and strong scripting skills (PowerShell, Python).