Security Engineer

Req ID: RQ223674

Type of Requisition: Regular

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None

Public Trust/Other Required: Other

Job Family: Cyber and IT Risk Management

Skills:

Cloud Infrastructure Security,Cloud Security,System Security

Experience:

5 + years of related experience

Job Description:

Advance how our customers operate while you advance your career. Join GDIT as a Multi‑Cloud Security Engineer and build an impactful career in enterprise IT, working with technical professionals committed to protecting mission‑critical environments.

MEANINGFUL WORK AND PERSONAL IMPACT

As a Multi‑Cloud Security Engineer, you will support a FedRAMP‑regulated program by securing cloud workloads across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). You will be responsible for building, operating, hardening, and continuously improving security controls across diverse cloud platforms. Your day‑to‑day work will focus on hands‑on engineering, security automation, monitoring, threat mitigation, and compliance alignment.

Key responsibilities include:

• Implementing and maintaining security configurations, guardrails, and baselines across AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI. Building and maintaining security automation using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, Bicep, or Deployment Manager.• Operating cloud security tooling including SIEM/SOAR platforms, CSPM solutions, vulnerability scanners, key management, and logging/monitoring systems.

• Managing IAM, roles, policies, conditional access, and least‑privilege models across multiple cloud identity systems.

• Implementing FedRAMP and NIST 800‑53 security controls within multi‑cloud environments; supporting audits and continuous monitoring activities. Hardening cloud resources including compute, storage, databases, containers, and serverless services.

• Working with DevOps and engineering teams to integrate security into CI/CD pipelines

• Conducting vulnerability assessments, patching activities, configuration reviews, and remediation across cloud platforms.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED

Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, or related technical field or equivalent experience

Minimum Experience:

hands‑on cloud security engineering across at least two major cloud providers. Strong experience with Linux/Unix, automation, cloud networking, and security tooling is highly beneficial.

Certification: one or more advanced certifications relevant to cloud security preferred: AWS Certified Security – Specialty, Microsoft Certified: Cybersecurity Architect Expert, Google Certified Professional Cloud Security Operations Engineer, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Security Professional. Additional cloud or security certifications such as CISSP are a plus.

Security Clearance: Candidate will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet requirements for High‑Risk Public Trust access.

Location: remote, with some travel

Timeline: Contingent posting, anticipated starting August 2026.

GDIT IS YOUR PLACE

At GDIT, the mission is our purpose, and our people are at the center of everything we do.

• Growth: AI-powered tools to guide technical development and skill expansion.

• Support: Internal mobility resources to help you navigate your career path.

• Rewards: Competitive pay, PTO, 401(k) with company match, and comprehensive benefits and wellness programs.

• Flexibility: Full-flex work week to help balance work and life priorities.

• Community: Award‑winning culture of innovation and a military‑friendly workplace.

OWN YOUR OPPORTUNITY

Explore an enterprise IT career at GDIT and expand your cloud security expertise across multi‑cloud environments.

The likely salary range for this position is $111,155 - $150,385. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 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. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. GDIT typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and an additional 10 paid holidays per year. Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee’s date of hire. The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers consulting, technology and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 26,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. We operate across 50 countries worldwide, offering leading capabilities in digital modernization, AI/ML, Cloud, Cyber and application development. Together with our clients, we strive to create a safer, smarter world by harnessing the power of deep expertise and advanced technology.

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