[Hiring] Senior DevOps Engineer @General Dynamics Information Technology

Role 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.

Our ideal candidate is a senior engineer who manages infrastructure through code. You have built and maintained AWS environments in Terraform, delivered changes through Git-based pipelines, and automated the manual work that usually comes with hosting Windows applications. You are as comfortable writing a Terraform module as you are troubleshooting an application running on IIS.

As a senior member of our Cloud DevOps team, you will:

• 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 using Terraform, PowerShell, and AWS Systems Manager.
• 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.
• Review teammates' Terraform and pipeline changes and help shape the team's standards.

Qualifications

• BA/BS and 7+ years of related IT experience, or equivalent experience.
• This must include 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.
• Ability to work independently on complex problems and communicate clearly.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain an NIH Public Trust.

Requirements

• 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, including dashboards, SLO design, and alert tuning.
• Experience with additional AWS observability services, such as CloudTrail, EventBridge, AWS X-Ray, or CloudWatch Synthetics.
• Familiarity with Amazon RDS for SQL Server from the hosting side.
• HashiCorp Terraform Associate, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional, or AWS Solutions Architect certification.

Benefits

• Medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts.
• Dental plan options.
• Vision plan.
• 401(k) plan with company match.
• Full flex work weeks where possible.
• Variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement, and jury duty leave.
• 15 days of paid leave per calendar year.
• 10 paid holidays per year.
• Paid Family Leave program providing up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period.
• Short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness, and business travel and accident insurance.