Principal Cloud Engineer

General Dynamics

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Work type: Remote
Location: Silver Spring, MD
Salary: $136,000–$184,000 / yr
Posted: 51 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live today
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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About General Dynamics

General Dynamics is a global aerospace and defense company offering a broad portfolio of products and services in business aviation, ship construction, land combat vehicles, and information technology. It serves customers in the U.S. government, allied governments, and a diverse array of commercial markets.

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TL;DR · Principal Cloud Engineer

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JOB TITLE: Principal Cloud Engineer As a Principal Cloud Engineer at GDIT, you will join the IT Infrastructure and Operations team to support the Healthcare Fraud prevention Partnership Trusted Third party mission. You will design, implement, and modernize AWS-based cloud environments and hybrid infrastructure while developing architecture patterns, reusable templates, and engineering standards. Your daily work involves managing Amazon VPCs, IAM roles, and infrastructure-as-code solutions using AWS CloudFormation. You will also build automation for provisioning, monitoring via Amazon CloudWatch, and integrating AI-assisted engineering workflows like Amazon Q Developer. Key technical requirements include proficiency in Python, Bash, and PowerShell, alongside experience with Linux, Windows, and databases like MySQL or Snowflake. You will solve complex problems regarding secure, scalable, and cost-effective cloud platforms while providing technical mentorship to engineers and DevOps practitioners.

What does a Cloud Engineer earn?

Median $142450 from 46 postings across 13 companies.

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Skills

AWS CloudFormation Terraform Python Bash PowerShell JavaScript Node.js Kubernetes Docker Amazon EKS ECS Helm Amazon VPC Amazon CloudWatch Amazon Bedrock Amazon SageMaker Snowflake Databricks MySQL PostgreSQL Oracle SQL Server Ansible Chef Puppet Datadog Dynatrace Splunk Elastic Grafana Prometheus OpenTelemetry CI/CD DevSecOps AIOps Linux Windows SAN TCP/IP DNS TLS NIST CIS SOC 2 HIPAA FinOps

What you'll do

Design, implement, and operationally support AWS-based cloud environments and hybrid cloud infrastructure.
Develop cloud architecture patterns, reusable templates, and engineering standards for secure and scalable platforms.
Build and maintain infrastructure-as-code solutions using AWS CloudFormation and other automation frameworks.
Configure and manage AWS networking, including VPCs, subnets, route tables, and security groups.
Implement identity and access management practices using AWS IAM roles, policies, and federation strategies.
Perform incident response, root-cause analysis, and capacity planning for production cloud environments.
Execute technical upgrades, platform enhancements, and migration activities including containerization of legacy workloads.
Support cloud capabilities for AI and data workloads using services like Amazon Bedrock and SageMaker.

What we're looking for

6+ years of related experience in cloud engineering, systems engineering, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.
Demonstrated hands-on experience designing, deploying, administering, and supporting AWS cloud environments in production.
Proficiency in AWS services including VPC, IAM, CloudFormation, and monitoring tools like Amazon CloudWatch.
Proficiency with scripting and programming languages including Python, Bash, PowerShell, and JavaScript/Node.js.
Experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) using AWS CloudFormation, Terraform, or similar tools.
Experience administering Linux and Windows operating systems in enterprise or production environments.
AWS certifications such as Solutions Architect - Professional or DevOps Engineer - Professional (preferred).

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