# Senior DevOps Engineer (AWS / Windows)

**Company**: GDIT
**Location**: Rockville, MD
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $123,250 - $166,750
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

GDIT is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer (AWS / Windows) to join our National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) team in Rockville, MD.

You will use Terraform to create, modify, and automate the AWS infrastructure that hosts NIAID's Windows-based scientific and business applications.

As a senior member of our Cloud DevOps team, you will run and improve our existing AWS platform and help move the remaining on-prem Windows workloads into AWS.

**Responsibilities:**

- Create, modify, and maintain AWS infrastructure and services in Terraform.

- Deliver infrastructure changes through GitHub Actions and AWS CodeBuild pipelines.

- Build and maintain the AWS environment that hosts Windows Server and IIS applications running .NET.

- Migrate on-prem Windows applications into AWS and improve them once they land.

- Automate routine operational work such as certificate renewal, service account credential rotation, patching, and service restarts.

- Troubleshoot problems across the application and infrastructure layers.

- Build and tune monitoring with Amazon CloudWatch and native AWS observability services.

- Work with the security team to remediate vulnerabilities and apply hardening standards to Windows servers and AWS resources.

**Requirements:**

- 5+ years of related experience

- BA/BS and 7+ years of related IT experience, or equivalent experience

- 3+ years of hands-on DevOps or cloud engineering in AWS supporting production workloads

- 3+ years using Terraform to create, modify, and automate AWS infrastructure

- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines that deploy infrastructure changes

- Hands-on experience with core AWS services, including EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, Elastic Load Balancing, Route 53, and Systems Manager

- Experience implementing monitoring with Amazon CloudWatch

- 3+ years supporting Windows Server and IIS environments that host .NET applications

- Strong PowerShell scripting skills, plus working knowledge of Python or Bash

**Preferred Skills:**

- Experience migrating Windows and .NET applications from on-prem infrastructure to AWS

- Experience containerizing applications and running them on Amazon ECS

- Experience with Application and Network Load Balancers, AWS WAF, CloudFront, and Route 53 routing policies

- Experience with AWS Secrets Manager or Parameter Store and AWS Certificate Manager

- Patch and configuration automation using SSM Patch Manager and State Manager, or PowerShell DSC

- Datadog experience

- Experience with additional AWS observability services

- Familiarity with Amazon RDS for SQL Server

- HashiCorp Terraform Associate, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional, or AWS Solutions Architect certification

## Skills

### Required
- Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
- AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF)
- Certificate Management
- Internet Information Server (IIS) Administration
- NIST 800-53
- Terraform
- GitHub Actions
- AWS CodeBuild
- EC2
- VPC
- IAM
- S3
- Elastic Load Balancing
- Route 53
- Systems Manager
- CloudWatch
- PowerShell
- Python
- Bash

### Nice to have
- Experience migrating Windows and .NET applications from on-prem infrastructure to AWS
- Experience containerizing applications and running them on Amazon ECS
- Application and Network Load Balancers
- AWS WAF
- CloudFront
- Route 53 routing policies
- AWS Secrets Manager
- Parameter Store
- AWS Certificate Manager
- SSM Patch Manager
- State Manager
- PowerShell DSC
- Datadog
- CloudTrail
- EventBridge
- AWS X-Ray
- CloudWatch Synthetics
- Amazon RDS for SQL Server
- HashiCorp Terraform Associate
- AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional
- AWS Solutions Architect

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