Cloud Architect SME

About the role

• Type of Requisition: Regular
• Clearance Level Must Currently Possess: Top Secret/SCI
• Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: Top Secret/SCI
• Public Trust/Other Required: None
• Job Family: IT Infrastructure and Operations

Job Qualifications

• Skills: Cloud Architectures, Cloud Based Services, DevSecOps
• Certifications: None
• Experience: 15 + years of related experience
• US Citizenship Required: Yes

About the role

Make meaningful contributions that fuel critical outcomes for some of the most complex government, defense, and intelligence projects. Join GDIT as a Cloud Architect SME for a career where your growth is just as important as the mission you support.

Meaningful Work and Personal Impact

As a Cloud Architect SME, the work you'll do at GDIT will be impactful to the mission of Department of War (DoW), Chief Information Officer (CIO) for Special Access Program(s) (SAPs) (DoW SAP CIO).

You will play a crucial role in providing support in the following areas

• Managed Service Offering
• Customer Engineering Support
• Migration Support Services
• Operate and enhance the Fences cloud platform across CUI to TS/SCI/SAR enclaves.
• Provision and manage CSP services (AWS, Azure, OCI, GCP) and tenant environments.
• Maintain automation-based provisioning, configuration management, and CI/CD processes.
• Lead high availability, scalability, and performance optimization initiatives.
• Implement FinOps cost transparency dashboards and reporting.
• Stand up and operate a multi-channel service desk and ITSM platform.
• Support SAP network integration, cross-domain solutions, and DTaaS accreditation.
• Coordinate with DISA, mission partners, and workload owners for onboarding and network design.

What You'll Need to Succeed

• BS degree; may be substituted for additional years of experience
• 15+ years of IT/DoW Infrastructure and Cloud experience
• Security Clearance Level: Top Secret with SCI eligibility
• Demonstrated experience supporting multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI).
• Expertise in DevSecOps, CI/CD pipelines, and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform preferred).
• Strong understanding of JSIG, RMF, Zero Trust, and DoW cloud security frameworks.
• Hands-on experience with high availability design, auto-scaling, and performance tuning.
• Experience leading ITSM processes and operating service desk capabilities.
• Familiarity with DISA network services, SAP architectures, cross domain technologies, and mission partner onboarding.

Gdit Is Your Place

• Excellent customizable health benefits (Medical, Dental and Vision)
• 401K with company match
• Educational Assistance and eLearning
• Internal mobility team dedicated to employee advancement
• Rewards and Recognition programs
• Innovative and collaborative environment encouraging highly motivated critical thinking

Pay and benefits

The likely salary range for this position is $187,179 - $235,750. 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: Less than 10%
• T elecommuting Options: Onsite
• Work Location: USA VA Falls Church

Total Rewards at Gdit

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.

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.

Our Identity Verification Process

As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during virtual interviews. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud. By proceeding, you authorize the collection, processing, and use of your biometric data for identity verification and security purposes.