Lead Cloud Architect-AWS-Remote-DC Metro Area

General Dynamics Information Technology

1d • Remote

About The Position

General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) seeks a Lead Cloud Architect to join our innovative cloud infrastructure team. In this role, you will collaborate directly with our federal client to modernize and expand their cloud capabilities, enabling their mission-critical operations through cutting-edge cloud solutions. We manage multi-cloud environments, and as a key technical leader, you will shape architectures, synthesize cross-agency requirements, and drive successful implementation.

Requirements

• U.S. Citizen/Green Card Holder eligible for Public Trust clearance.
• 10+ years of IT/digital transformation experience.
• 5+ years of deep hands-on AWS (preferred), Azure, or GCP cloud architectures and implementations.
• Strong communication and collaboration ability
• Expertise leading multi-tenant cloud systems (e.g., landing zones, multi-account systems).
• Experience developing and managing high-availability, secure, and automated solutions aligned with best practices.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with DevOps/DevSecOps methodologies and tools (e.g., Terraform, Jenkins, GitLab).
• Professional Cloud Certifications (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Proven experience bridging on-premise systems with cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Architectural Leadership: Lead the design of scalable cloud infrastructure, including landing zone architecture across AWS, Azure, and GCP platforms. Develop systems to scale support for multi-cloud environments, cross-account applications, SASE, and automated solutions.
• Solution Development: Collaborate with client stakeholders to define technical requirements and objectives. Design and implement solutions leveraging AWS Well-Architected Framework and hybrid cloud strategies.
• Team Enablement & Mentorship: Guide a team of DevOps and SecOps engineers, ensuring innovative and secure cloud strategies. Promote CI/CD practices and automation tools for provisioning cloud services.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Partner with senior leadership, enterprise architecture teams, and agency personnel to build cloud adoption strategies. Communicate complex cloud architectures effectively to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Benefits

• 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.
• GDIT typically provides new employees with 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.
• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed