Cloud Engineer

Cloud Engineer

Advance your career while impacting our national security in cyber as Cloud Engineer at GDIT. Here, technologists have many paths to grow a meaningful career supporting cyber missions and operations across the federal government. The Advana team is seeking a Cloud Engineer to join their program. Advana is the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office's (CDAO) enterprise-wide, multi-domain data, analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI) platform that provides all DoD military and civilian decision makers, analysts, and builders with unprecedented access to enterprise data, tools, and capabilities.

Responsibilities for this position include:

• Executing cloud operations supporting Department of Defense environments by configuring, monitoring, and maintaining Amazon Web Services infrastructures used within the Advana platform.
• Building and modifying Virtual Private Clouds, routing components, access control configurations, and network interconnections aligned with operational and security requirements.
• Monitoring system performance using CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and AWS Config to track availability metrics, configuration changes, and workload trends.
• Applying configuration hardening baselines to compute instances, storage services, and application components using approved security methods and automated enforcement tools.
• Supporting release and deployment processes by preparing staging environments, validating deployment prerequisites, and confirming functionality during integration and production transitions documented in Software Release Plans.
• Collecting operational diagnostics supporting incident response investigations, root cause analysis, and post-incident reporting requirements.
• Executing system administration tasks including patching activities, service adjustments, storage optimization, and account permission updates. Automating system and application deployments using infrastructure-as-code tools such as AWS Systems Manager, CloudFormation templates, and scripted provisioning workflows.
• Maintaining operational documentation covering system changes, performance results, and equipment inventories supporting asset management functions.
• Coordinating with cloud engineers, developers, and cybersecurity personnel to support issue resolution, system optimization, and operational planning.
• Providing measurable improvements in system reliability, configuration compliance, and operational efficiency across mission-critical cloud services supporting Army, Air Force, Navy, and Fourth Estate customers.

What you'll need to succeed:

Bring your technology expertise and drive for innovation to GDIT. The Systems Engineer Senior must have:

• Education: Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science
• Experience: 3+ years of related experience
• Security clearance level: TS/SCI
• Certification: Amazon Web Services AWS Certified: Solutions Architect Associate

At GDIT, the mission is our purpose, and our people are at the center of everything we do. Growth: AI-powered career tool that identifies career steps and learning opportunities Support: An internal mobility team focused on helping you achieve your career goals Rewards: Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages, 401K with company match, and competitive pay and paid time off Community: Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace

Explore an enterprise IT career at GDIT and you'll find endless opportunities to grow alongside colleagues who share your desire to drive operations forward. 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. Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40 Travel Required: None Telecommuting Options: Onsite Work Location: USA VA Falls Church