Sr. Cloud Solutions Engineer (AWS)

$134,597 - $166,750/Yr

GD Information Technology, Inc.

Full-time - Senior

Remote

10,001+ employees

About the position

GDIT is seeking a Sr. Cloud Solutions Engineer (AWS) to support the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) team in Rockville, MD. This role involves engineering custom solutions in the Cloud, collaborating with product owners to deploy applications, and promoting DevOps best practices. The position is remote but candidates within commuting distance to Rockville, MD are preferred.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product owners to identify and design topologies for custom business and scientific applications on AWS.
• Provide guidance for adhering to best practices for optimal and secure use of cloud technologies.
• Assist development teams in migrating their products from on-prem infrastructure to AWS, including refactoring application architecture.
• Train product teams in AWS cloud technologies and frameworks to assist them in setting up the environment, building and deploying applications, and automating operational needs.
• Develop prototypes and enhance capabilities offered on the platform, such as CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and containerized workloads.
• Participate in daily stand-up meetings to report accomplishments, plans, and roadblocks.
• Act as an AWS Cloud Subject Matter Expert (SME) on cross-functional teams.
• Present on DevOps best practices and new cloud technologies during Tech Talks.

Requirements

• 8+ years of related experience in cloud solutions engineering.
• 3+ years of experience with AWS, including knowledge of services like ECS, EC2, S3, SageMaker, Systems Manager, and Lambda.
• Working knowledge of infrastructure-as-code (IaC) frameworks such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Experience with Docker and container orchestration platforms like AWS ECS and AWS EKS.
• Experience implementing and managing CI/CD workflows using tools like GitHub Actions or AWS CodeBuild.
• Experience with configuration management through AWS Systems Manager, Ansible, Puppet, or similar tools.
• Ability to analyze solutions components and identify technology gaps in cloud infrastructure.
• Experience presenting ideas to both technical and non-technical users.
• Ability to write comprehensive technical documentation.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience designing and implementing technologies using micro-service technology in a Federal Scientific Health Research environment.
• Experience refactoring applications into Cloud native applications.
• Experience consulting scientists, researchers, and developers on AWS services.

Benefits

• Medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts.
• Dental plan options.
• Vision plan.
• 401(k) plan with company match.
• Flexible work weeks and various paid time off plans including vacation, sick, personal time, holidays, and paid parental leave.
• Short and long-term disability benefits.
• Life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness, and business travel insurance.