Description
GDIT is seeking an AWS Cloud Engineer to support our NIAID team in Rockville, MD.
The role spans the full delivery lifecycle: AWS infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines and developer tooling, and administration of the Windows Server, Active Directory, and SQL Server estate. The engineer independently owns infrastructure design, sets technical direction, and mentors junior engineers.
This role is hybrid with 3 days onsite per week in Rockville, MD.
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 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.
Required 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.
- Hands-on AWS experience across compute, storage, networking, database, IAM, backup, and monitoring services.
- Experience with Terraform for infrastructure as code.
- Strong software development background , able to build automation tools, internal services, or lightweight applications.
- Strong PowerShell skills with working proficiency in Python.
- Deep Windows Server engineering experience, including root cause analysis of complex issues.
- Experience administering Active Directory.
- Experience administering SQL Server.
- Solid understanding of AWS networking.
- Experience with observability and incident response practices.
- Experience supporting production systems under formal change control.
- Strong analytical skills and ability to explain technical solutions to technical and non-technical audiences.
Benefits:
- Medical plan options
- Dental plan options
- Vision plan
- 401(k) plan
- Flex work weeks
- Paid time off plans
- Short and long-term disability benefits
- Life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance