Cloud Developer Senior Principal

General Dynamics Information Technology

5d • $136,000 - $184,000 • Remote

About The Position

Transform technology into opportunity as a Cloud Developer Senior Principal at GDIT. Shape what’s next for mission-critical government projects while shaping what’s next for your engineering career.

Requirements

• 8+ years of related experience
• Hands-on experience with Terraform for IaC
• Strong AWS engineering background across networking, compute, storage, and identity services
• Experience integrating SSO/identity providers (Okta) with AWS
• Understanding of AWS governance: Organizations, Control Tower, SCPs, tagging, and account management
• Familiarity with log management tools (Fluent-bit, CloudWatch Logs)
• Troubleshooting experience with AWS monitoring/logging tools
• Strong documentation and diagramming skills
• Excellent communication and customer support capabilities
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Secret clearance
• US Citizenship Required

Nice To Haves

• Knowledge of Zscaler ZPA or similar zero-trust solutions (preferred)

Responsibilities

• Infrastructure Engineering & Automation: Develop, maintain, and refine Terraform code to support infrastructure-as-code best practices
• Assist the CDP Lead with defining baseline architectures and best practices for tenants
• Build, configure, and maintain AWS infrastructure across multiple tenant environments
• Implement and support AWS Instance Scheduler for resource optimization
• Manage automation solutions for inventory reporting, CMDB updates, log retention, and other operational needs
• Create and update architectural diagrams to reflect evolving solutions and infrastructure
• Support the development of custom solutions, such as log retention pipelines, inventory reporting, AppStream deployments, and other specialized requests
• Security, Governance & Identity: Review and remediate AWS Security Hub findings to maintain compliance and security posture
• Integrate and support Okta / AWS SSO for secure identity and access management
• Implement AWS tagging strategies for governance, reporting, and cost allocation
• Manage ACM certificates, including issuance, renewal, and troubleshooting
• Administer AWS accounts, including creation, configuration, and governance
• Configure and maintain Service Control Policies (SCPs) to enforce guardrails and prevent tenant misconfigurations
• Support AWS Organizations and Control Tower onboarding activities
• Tenant Support & Lifecycle Management: Onboard new tenants and offboard departing ones, ensuring appropriate provisioning, security, and documentation
• Assist tenants with complex technical issues, providing escalation support as needed
• Work with ENS to manage Zscaler ZPA components, including connectors, DNS considerations, and security groups
• Support SMTP solutioning and related integration tasks
• Troubleshooting & Monitoring: Review AWS utilization and billing to identify opportunities for cost savings and performance improvements
• Troubleshoot infrastructure issues using AWS native tools such as CloudTrail, CloudWatch Logs/Metrics, VPC Flow Logs, and firewall logs
• Maintain and enhance Fluent-bit pipelines for log ingestion and retention across tenant environments

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages
• 401K with company match
• Competitive pay and paid time off
• Full flex work weeks where possible
• Paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave
• 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
• Short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees