Senior Windows Cloud Server Engineer

Job Family:

Systems Engineering

Travel Required:

Up to 10%

Clearance Required:

Ability to Obtain Public Trust

• Own Windows Server production operations (day one). Serve as the senior technical owner for a predominantly Windows Server environment (~95% Windows), providing hands‑on production support for mission‑critical applications hosted in government cloud (AWS Gov Cloud).

• Administer and sustain Windows Server. Maintain, troubleshoot, patch, harden, and recover Windows Server systems in production — sustaining availability during business hours and through a shared on‑call rotation, independently resolving after‑hours incidents.

• Lead incident response. Drive production incident response and deep‑dive root‑cause analysis across Windows Server, cloud, and container platforms.

• Engineer secure cloud infrastructure. Design, implement, and maintain secure, scalable cloud architectures across Windows and Linux systems; work independently or lead small teams.

• Automate with IaC (secondary). Develop and manage Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and Ansible to provision and configure environments — secondary to Windows operations and Kubernetes troubleshooting.

• Build CI/CD and Dev Sec Ops . Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines and Dev Sec Ops  automation aligned with government and industry best practices.

• Monitor and ensure availability. Design and implement monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions; establish performance baselines and ensure system availability.

• Harden federal environments. Enforce security best practices, including identity and access management and system hardening for federal environments.

• Document and mentor. Develop and maintain technical documentation, runbooks, and SOPs; mentor junior and mid‑level engineers and provide technical leadership across Dev Ops practices.

• Must work on client site in Washington, DC.

• Bachelor's degree (BA/BS) in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field; a Master's degree may substitute for additional years of experience per contract guidance.

• Ten (10 ) years of relevant IT/engineering experience, including senior‑level Windows Server operations and 3+ years supporting cloud engineering environments

• U.S. citizenship or Green Card status is required.

• Windows Server operations — highest priority. Strong, current, hands‑on Windows Server administration/engineering: production support, troubleshooting, maintenance, recovery, and patching. The environment is approximately 95% Windows.

• Day‑one senior contributor. Demonstrated ability to perform at a senior level immediately with minimal or no ramp‑up; practical production operations experience rather than primarily cloud‑native development.

• On‑call readiness. Willing and able to participate in a production on‑call rotation and independently resolve after‑hours incidents.

• Government cloud. Strong hands‑on experience with AWS Gov Cloud.

• Core skills. Ability to work independently with minimal supervision in complex, secure environments; strong analytical and advanced troubleshooting skills; excellent written, verbal, and stakeholder communication; demonstrated technical leadership and mentoring.

• Must be able to OBTAIN and MAINTAIN a Federal or DoD "PUBLIC TRUST"; candidates must obtain approved adjudication of their PUBLIC TRUST prior to onboarding with Guidehouse. Candidates with an ACTIVE PUBLIC TRUST or SUITABILITY are preferred.

• Windows automation & certs. Power Shell scripting;
  Microsoft / Windows Server Administrator certifications.

• IaC depth. Deep Terraform (Infrastructure as Code) and Ansible (configuration management/automation) expertise.

• Current Kubernetes expertise. Able to independently operate, troubleshoot, and take ownership of a production Kubernetes environment and answer senior‑level Kubernetes questions.

• Kubernetes at scale. Service mesh, API gateways, and Kubernetes security tooling.

• Federal compliance. Experience with FISMA, NIST, and FedRAMP frameworks.

• Cloud certifications. AWS Certified Dev Ops Engineer.

• Security adjacencies. Familiarity with PKI, identity services, or credential management systems.

• Enterprise scale &…