# Cloud Architect / Developer SME

**Company**: GDIT
**Location**: Washington, D.C.
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $169,604 - $229,464
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

GDIT is seeking a Cloud Architect / Developer SME to design, build, and secure large-scale Azure Government environments supporting mission-critical federal systems.

**Key Responsibilities**

- Architect secure, scalable Azure GovCloud infrastructures and network connectivity

- Design cloud-native data platforms, pipelines, and analytics architectures

- Automate cloud provisioning with Terraform/ARM/Bicep; ensure consistent, FedRAMP-compliant environments

- Implement Azure AD, RBAC, least-privilege, encryption, and NIST-aligned security controls

- Apply DISA STIGs/CIS benchmarks and lead architecture reviews/documentation

- Drive FinOps optimization and guide engineering teams on cloud best practices

- Migrate NTIA's Unclassified Spectrum Management Systems to Azure Government

- Migrate the NTIA Secret environment to the Azure Secret Cloud

- Enhance the security and administration of Spectrum IT systems operations

- Migrate and modernize with config-level changes

- Push toward Platform as a Service (PaaS) and cloud-native where possible

- Replatform if the application can leverage Azure PaaS

- Rehost using Azure Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) if the application can't leverage Azure PaaS

- Use Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) and the Azure Well-Architected Framework

- Leverage the NTIA FSDS IL5 tenant based on the single tenant architect

**Requirements**

- Technical Training, Certification(s) or Degree, or equivalent experience

- 10+ years cloud engineering/architecture experience

- Experience with Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) and the Azure Well-Architected Framework

- Strong Azure, Terraform/Bicep, networking, automation, and security expertise

- Familiarity with Ansible, PowerShell DSC, and modern development tools/languages

- One or more required certifications (Azure Architect, Azure Engineer, CISSP, etc.)

- Must possess and maintain an Active Secret or higher clearance

- US Citizenship Required

**Benefits**

- Medical plan options

- Dental plan options

- Vision plan

- 401(k) plan with company match

- Full flex work weeks

- Paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave

- Paid Family Leave program providing up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12-month period

- Short and long-term disability benefits

- Life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance

## Skills

### Required
- Cloud Native
- Microsoft Azure
- Platform as a Service (PaaS)
- Terraform
- Bicep
- Azure AD
- RBAC
- NIST
- DISA STIGs
- CIS benchmarks
- FinOps
- Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF)
- Azure Well-Architected Framework

### Nice to have
- Ansible
- PowerShell DSC

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