# Sr Principal Cloud Architect

**Company**: GDIT
**Location**: Falls Church, VA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $164,382 - $189,750
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

GDIT's Emerge Labs is seeking a senior-level Cloud and Identity Engineer to architect, deploy, and support modern multi-cloud environments with a primary focus on AWS.

The Cloud SME role blends technical engineering expertise with a strong customer-support mission,ensuring that every cloud service, automation, and infrastructure component is fully delivered, functioning correctly, and meeting customer expectations.

**Key Responsibilities**

- Architect, build, and support multi-cloud environments across AWS, Azure, and GCP.

- Acts as an Okta/Identity SME for the GDIT Emerge Labs

- Oversee Emerge Labs certificate infrastructure and DNS

- Deploy and manage AWS multi-tenant account structures, including networking, identity, governance, and security controls.

- Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for IaC deployments to ensure consistent, reliable, and repeatable delivery.

- Serve as a Tier 3 escalation point, providing timely resolution and clear communication to Emerge Labs customers.

- Ensure that cloud services and deployments are fully delivered, validated, documented, and functioning as expected.

- Work directly with customers to understand requirements, track progress, resolve issues, and confirm successful delivery.

- Partner with internal engineering, cybersecurity, and operations teams to maintain secure and compliant cloud environments.

**Requirements**

- Education: Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science

- Experience: 10+ years of related experience

- Technical skills:

- Proven experience deploying and managing AWS multi-tenant environments using IaC such as Terraform and/or Ansible/YAML.

- Proven experience with complex design and implementation of Okta/Identity federation solution (Okta workflow automation experience is a plus)

- Hand-on experience with deploying Certificate Authority and managing DNS

- Working knowledge with Microsoft AD server and Linux operating systems

- Strong cloud networking background (Zscaler, routing, VPCs, security groups, Route53).

**Benefits**

- Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages

- 401K with company match

- Competitive pay and paid time off

- Flexible work arrangements

- Opportunities for growth and career development

The likely salary range for this position is $164,382 - $189,750.

## Skills

### Required
- AWS
- Cloud Engineering
- Okta Identity Management
- Terraform
- Ansible
- YAML
- Microsoft AD server
- Linux
- Zscaler
- Route53

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