Cloud Engineer

General Dynamics
St. Louis
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 125,800 - 170,200 annuallyFunction: DevOps, Cloud & InfrastructureExperience: 8+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Technical support","Communication"]

Support an intelligence customer by engineering and maintaining AWS-based infrastructure and automating service deployments. You’ll optimize performance and cost, integrate authentication services, improve monitoring, and maintain security protocols in an agile environment. The role includes building and refactoring full-stack application features, debugging operational issues, writing unit tests, and mentoring junior developers using modern CI/CD and containerization tools.

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General Dynamics
General Dynamics
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Cloud Engineer

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Job Summary

Support an intelligence customer by engineering and maintaining AWS-based infrastructure and automating service deployments. You’ll optimize performance and cost, integrate authentication services, improve monitoring, and maintain security protocols in an agile environment. The role includes building and refactoring full-stack application features, debugging operational issues, writing unit tests, and mentoring junior developers using modern CI/CD and containerization tools.
Location: St. Louis
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: DevOps, Cloud & Infrastructure
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Automate service deployments, optimize system performance and cost, and maintain/improve monitoring and security protocols in AWS.
  • •Maintain and extend existing infrastructure, including autoscaling and support for new services and integrations.
  • •Deliver full-stack web application functionality to production, identifying and resolving operational issues.
  • •Integrate with enterprise authentication services and participate in technical requirements-gathering with customers.
  • •Refactor legacy application code for reliability/maintainability, write unit tests, and mentor junior developers.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 125,800 - 170,200 annually
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVision401kPaid Leave

Key Requirements

  • •8+ years of IT experience and a Bachelor’s degree in a related technical discipline (or equivalent education/training/work/military experience).
  • •Must meet DoD 8570 IAT Level II requirements, including one of: Security+ CE, CND, SSCP, GSEC, GICSP, CySA+, or CCNA.
  • •Strong knowledge of Amazon Web Services and troubleshooting skills.
  • •Experience automating tasks with Bash, PowerShell, or Perl and familiarity with Agile/Scrum.
  • •Extensive TypeScript/JavaScript background with Angular experience and CI/CD plus containerization/orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
Experience:8+ years
Education:Bachelor's in Computer Programming, Science, Engineering or a related technical discipline
Skills:Technical supportCommunication
Certifications:AWS Certified Cloud PractitionerSecurity+ CECNDSSCPGSECGICSPCySA+CCNA
Tech Stack:Amazon Web Services (AWS)EC2S3Load BalancerRDSAutoscalingBashPowerShellPerlAgileScrumGitLabJenkinsNexusTypeScriptJavaScriptAngularUI/UX designMicroservicesREST APIs

Eligibility

Nationality:US National
Work Authorization:Authorization required. Sponsorship not provided.
Security Clearance:Top Secret/SCIPolygraph

Company Brief

General Dynamics
Provides IT, systems engineering, cybersecurity, cloud, and mission support services to U.S. federal civilian and defense agencies, delivering large-scale technology solutions and managed services for national security and government operations.
Industry: Defense Technology
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Growth: Established Company
Headquarters: Tysons / Fairfax, United States
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