Senior Cloud Solutions Engineer: AWS/Azure & Terraform

General Dynamics Information Technology; United States; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Full benefits

401K matching

Paid time off

Job summary

General Dynamics Information Technology is seeking a Senior Cloud Solutions Engineer to design and deliver secure, scalable cloud architectures for NIH CIT Hosting and Storage Services. You will own solutions from discovery to delivery, building Terraform modules and integrating DevOps practices while partnering with customers to translate requirements into actionable plans.

Remote work is considered, with a Bethesda onsite preference; you may go onsite 3 days a week if within 60 miles.

Qualifications

• BS/BA and 8+ years of relevant IT experience
• Strong hands-on AWS and Azure experience across compute, storage, databases, networking, identity, security, monitoring, and related cloud services
• Experience designing and implementing cloud solutions for applications and data, with knowledge of application architectures, availability, scalability, resiliency, security, and lifecycle requirements
• Strong Infrastructure as Code experience using Terraform, including developing custom modules, leveraging reusable modules, and working within shared Git-based code repositories
• Experience with cloud networking, identity and access management, security, and DevOps/CI/CD practices, including automated infrastructure and application deployment, testing, security scanning, and monitoring
• Experience independently owning technical solutions from requirements gathering and architecture through implementation, troubleshooting, documentation, and transition to operations
• Strong consulting, communication, and analytical skills, with experience engaging customers, translating requirements into technical architectures, evaluating tradeoffs and downstream impacts, and delivering solutions within an Agile sprint-based environment

Responsibilities

• Partner directly with customers to discover and document business, application, data, security, and technical requirements and translate them into cloud architectures and actionable engineering plans
• Design and implement custom solutions in AWS and Azure for application and data hosting, including scientific and research platforms such as REDCap, Posit, and other specialized workloads that do not align with standard IaaS or PaaS offerings
• Engineer end-to-end cloud solutions incorporating compute, storage, databases, networking, identity and access management, security, monitoring, backup/recovery, application architecture, and other required cloud services
• Develop and maintain Terraform modules, configuration, scripts, and automation required to provision and manage custom solutions, leveraging standard reusable services and patterns wherever practical
• Design and integrate DevOps and CI/CD capabilities that support application deployment, infrastructure delivery, security scanning, testing, monitoring, and ongoing lifecycle management
• Apply sound engineering judgment and second-order thinking to evaluate technical alternatives, dependencies, security risks, operational impacts, scalability, maintainability, and long-term consequences when recommending solutions
• Independently drive assigned solutions through delivery while collaborating within an Agile Cloud DevOps team, participating in sprint planning, technical design and code reviews, and coordinating with security, infrastructure, application, and other engineering teams as needed

Skills

AWS

Azure

Terraform

DevOps

CI/CD

Communication

Cloud Architecture

Education

BS/BA in IT or related field

Tools

Git

Job description

General Dynamics Information Technology is seeking a Senior Cloud Solutions Engineer to design and deliver secure, scalable cloud architectures for NIH CIT Hosting and Storage Services. You will own solutions from discovery to delivery, building Terraform modules and integrating DevOps practices while partnering with customers to translate requirements into actionable plans.

Remote work is considered, with a Bethesda onsite preference; you may go onsite 3 days a week if within 60 miles.