Cloud Engineer
GD Information Technology•Fairview Park, VT
•Remote
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 DoW military and civilian decision makers, analysts, and builders with unprecedented access to enterprise data, tools, and capabilities.
Requirements
- 3 + years of related experience
- Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science
- TS/SCI Eligible
- Amazon Web Services AWS Certified: Solutions Architect Associate
Nice To Haves
- Top Secret/SCI Clearance Level Must Currently Possess: Top Secret/SCI
- Public Trust/Other Required: None
- Job Family: IT Infrastructure and Operations
- Skills: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Cloud Based Services, Cloud Operations, Enterprise IT
- Certifications: None
- US Citizenship Required: Yes
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
- competitive pay
- paid time off
- variety of medical plan options
- dental plan options
- a vision plan
- 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
