Senior Windows Server Cloud Engineer (GovCloud)

Guidehouse Inc.; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 149,000 - 248,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance

Personal and Family Sick Time & Paid H

Parental Leave

401(k) Retirement Plan

Job summary

Guidehouse Inc. seeks a senior Windows Server operations expert to own production environments in a predominantly Windows ecosystem and AWS GovCloud.

You will be the senior technical owner, delivering hands-on production support for mission-critical apps with a focus on security, reliability, and compliance. The role requires 10+ years in IT/engineering, US citizenship or Green Card, and the ability to obtain Federal Public Trust.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field
• Ten (10) years of IT/engineering experience, including senior-level Windows Server operations and 3+ years supporting cloud environments
• U.S. citizenship or Green Card status
• Strong Windows Server administration, production support, troubleshooting, maintenance, recovery, and patching
• Willing to work on-site in Washington, DC and participate in on-call rotation

Responsibilities

• Own Windows Server production operations (day one)
• Administer and sustain Windows Server in production
• Lead incident response and root-cause analysis
• Engineer secure cloud infrastructure across Windows and Linux
• Automate with IaC using Terraform and Ansible
• Build CI/CD pipelines and DevSecOps automation
• Monitor and ensure availability with logging and alerting
• Harden federal environments with IAM and system hardening
• Document and mentor junior engineers and provide technical leadership
• Must work on client site in Washington, DC

Skills

Windows Server operations

Incident response leadership

Cloud engineering

On-call readiness

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS/Engineering

Tools

AWS GovCloud

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes

Job description

Guidehouse Inc. seeks a senior Windows Server operations expert to own production environments in a predominantly Windows ecosystem and AWS GovCloud.

You will be the senior technical owner, delivering hands-on production support for mission-critical apps with a focus on security, reliability, and compliance. The role requires 10+ years in IT/engineering, US citizenship or Green Card, and the ability to obtain Federal Public Trust.