Senior Cloud Engineer | Active Top Secret clearance
About The Position
Transform technology into opportunity as a Cloud Engineer at GDIT. Shape what’s next for mission-critical government projects while shaping what’s next for your engineering career. As a Cloud Engineer, the work you’ll do at GDIT will be impactful by providing support to the Naval Supply Systems Command (NAVSUP) Ordnance Information System (OIS) and to provide technical expertise on a mission-critical program. We’re looking for an engineer who is passionate about emerging technology, thrives in highly technical environments, and enjoys collaborating with top talent. If you bring strong experience in Linux/Windows administration, Cloud engineering, automation, and DevSecOps, you’ll find this role both challenging and rewarding. You’ll be a key member of the OIS Cloud/DevSecOps team, contributing to a major Navy modernization effort that demands innovation, reliability, and engineering excellence. Your work will directly enhance mission readiness and operational effectiveness across the fleet.
Requirements
- Active Top Secret clearance
- 8+ years of cloud engineering and architecting enterprise IT solutions
- Extensive understanding and experience programming and designing software using Terraform, Ansible, Java, J2EE, Oracle, WebLogic, Tomcat and AWS cloud services
- Experience with modern development software, tools, and methodologies; Jenkins, GitLab Ultimate, Jira, Nexus, Maven, OpenShift, SonarQube, Fortify, Junit, Karma, Selenium, Cyprus, Docker, Artifactory
- Demonstrated expertise in systems engineering, including requirements analysis and system architecture design
- Ability to liaise with government, vendors, and other IT personnel for problem resolution
- Demonstrated experience in network and cyber security design, engineering, and operations with emphasis on Navy capabilities
- Demonstrated experience developing models using Sparx EA, Splunk, MuleSoft, SalesForce
- Experience with NIST SP 800 series or ISO 27000 series documents for information security management and risk assessment
- Demonstrated experience with server virtualization technologies such as VMware, Citrix, or Hyper-V
- Demonstrated experience with operating systems such as RedHat Linux and Windows Server
- Demonstrated experience in ITIL, ISO20000 / ISO27001 implementations
- At least one nationally recognized vendor certification
- Navy experience
- Strong verbal and written technical communication skills
- 8570.1/8140 - IAT II CompTIA Security+ CE.
- Computing Environment Certification: AWS Certified Solutions Architect or similar equivalent Cloud environment certification (if not in hand, must be obtained within 6 months of onboarding)
- BS/BA Degree.
- US Citizenship Required
Nice To Haves
- Experience with Angular, ReactJS, Spring MVC, JQuery, JSF, JSP, MyBatis, Hibernate, IBM MQ, Kafka, ELK, or PLSQL
Responsibilities
- Provide hands-on cloud engineering support across development, integration, testing, and operations for complex cloud-based applications.
- Lead system engineering activities—including requirements analysis, architecture design, technical assessments, and interface standards development.
- Partner closely with customer Product Owners to develop key engineering documentation such as system requirements, capability definitions, and interface control documents using GitLab Ultimate, Azure DevOps, and other architecture tools.
- Serve as the primary technical liaison between NAVSUP OIS and the third‑party cloud broker (NAVAIR), supporting cloud operations, cost estimates, access controls, and resource planning.
- Guide Agile and DevSecOps best practices across the portfolio (SAFe, Scrum, Kanban), including backlog management, governance, and continuous improvement.
- Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines, enforce tool and process standardization, and ensure compliance with Navy security standards.
- Support installation, configuration, testing, and sustainment of operating systems, application stacks, and system management tools.
- Strengthen system performance, availability, security, and resilience through sound engineering practices, documentation and automation.
Benefits
- Variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts
- Dental plan options
- Vision plan
- 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
- Full flex work weeks where possible
- Variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave
- Short and long-term disability benefits
- Life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
