General Dynamics Information Technology

Senior Cloud Engineer, AWS

General Dynamics Information Technology

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Rockville • Maryland • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $123,250 - $166,750 per year

Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

AWSCloudEC2JenkinsTerraform

About the role

  • Collaborate with product owners (researchers and software developers) to identify and design topologies for custom business and scientific applications on AWS as part of our custom platform
  • 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, which often requires refactoring application architecture and breaking down monolithic applications into micro-service architecture or serverless workloads
  • Train product teams in AWS cloud technologies and frameworks to assist them in setting up the environment, build and deploy applications, and automate operational needs
  • Work with other Cloud Solutions Engineers or independently to develop prototypes and enhance or expand fundamental capabilities offered on the platform, such as CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and containerized, serverless workloads, and high performance computing
  • Participate in a daily stand-up meeting to report your accomplishments, plans for the day, and any roadblocks you encountered
  • Act as an AWS Cloud Subject Matter Expert (SME) on cross functional teams to help further the organizations mission
  • Occasionally present to your team, our software developer colleagues, and researchers on DevOps best practices, new and interesting cloud technologies, and ways you approached and solved challenging technical issues during our Tech Talks webinar series

Requirements

  • 8+ years of related experience
  • 3+ years of experience with AWS, to include knowledge of commonly used AWS services, such as: ECS, EC2, S3, Parallel Cluster, Systems Manager, Lambda
  • Working knowledge of infrastructure-as-code (IaC) frameworks, such as Terraform or CloudFormation to include writing templates and modules from scratch and experience with configuration management frameworks
  • Knowledge of Containerization and hands-on experience in containerizing software applications; experience working with container orchestration and deployment platforms such as AWS ECS and AWS EKS
  • Experience with implementing and managing Ci/CD workflows using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar tools
  • Experience analyzing solutions components, understanding systems integration challenges, and identifying technology gaps in current components that must be resolved to reach future performance targets and functionality requirements in cloud infrastructure
  • Experience with presenting ideas to both technical and non-technical users
  • Experience writing comprehensive technical documentation
  • Must be able to obtain and maintain a NIH Public Trust clearance
Benefits
  • Health insurance
  • 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match
  • Paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave
  • Short and long-term disability benefits
  • Life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
AWSECSEC2S3Parallel ClusterSystems ManagerLambdainfrastructure-as-codeTerraformCloudFormation
Soft skills
collaborationtrainingpresentationproblem-solvingcommunication
Certifications
NIH Public Trust clearance