Senior Windows Cloud Server Engineer Job Washington area,District of Columbia USA,IT/Tech

Job Family:
Systems Engineering

Travel Required:
Up to 10%

Clearance Required:
Ability to Obtain Public Trust

What You Will Do:

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.

What You Will Need:

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 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.

What Would Be Nice To Have:

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 & scripting. E…