Cloud Engineer

General Dynamics Information Technology • Falls Church, VA

2d • $111,155 - $150,385 • Onsite

About The Position

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.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science
• 3+ years of related experience
• TS/SCI security clearance
• Amazon Web Services AWS Certified: Solutions Architect Associate certification

Responsibilities

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

Benefits

• 401K with 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
• Variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts
• Dental plan options
• Vision plan

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior