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From the employer's careers site First seen 28 Oct 2026

Sr Principal Cloud Architect

GDIT Falls Church, VA Hybrid senior full-time

Salary

$164,382 - $189,750 per year

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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.

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