# Cloud Architect

**Company**: GDIT
**Location**: Chantilly, VA
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $164,382 - $212,750
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are seeking a Cloud Architect to define and govern Azure landing-zone, subscription/management-group, tenant, network, identity, policy, logging, key-management, and workload-placement patterns. The successful candidate will have 10+ years of enterprise infrastructure/cloud engineering experience, including 5+ years designing and delivering Microsoft Azure and M365 solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

- Define and govern Azure landing-zone, subscription/management-group, tenant, network, identity, policy, logging, key-management, and workload-placement patterns

- Document UMIS architecture and SCMIS hybrid Exchange/M365 decisions as reusable reference patterns

- Architect AVD/EUC, Intune, Windows 11 endpoint management, Defender for Endpoint, Sentinel, Exchange hybrid, Teams/collaboration, backup/recovery, and service continuity

- Define Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, artifact, image, configuration, and promotion standards with the Cloud Platform/DevSecOps Engineers

- Partner with Security to develop control implementation, inheritance, logging, evidence, and cATO-ready continuous monitoring patterns

- Partner with Service Operations to define capacity, observability, SLOs, incident response, change windows, patching, and operational acceptance

- Evaluate Microsoft, WWT, Dell, and other partner capabilities; make evidence-based product and service recommendations

- Lead cloud architecture reviews, mentor engineers, and brief Government and program leadership on migration risk, cost, readiness, and trade-offs

Required Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Cloud Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related field

- 10+ years of enterprise infrastructure/cloud engineering experience

- 5+ years designing and delivering Microsoft Azure and M365 solutions

- Hands-on architecture experience with Azure Government and/or M365 government cloud boundaries

- Deep experience with Azure networking, tenant/subscription governance, Entra ID, Conditional Access, RBAC/PIM, policy, logging, and security controls

- Strong experience with at least three of the following: AVD, Intune, Windows endpoint management, Exchange hybrid, Teams, Defender for Endpoint, Sentinel, Azure Monitor, backup/recovery, or migration tooling

Preferred Qualifications:

- Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert and Microsoft 365 Certified: Administrator Expert

- Experience designing contractor-operated managed services, service catalogs, FinOps practices, license optimization, and SLA-based platform operations

- Experience integrating Azure/M365 with Cisco ISE/TrustSec, ServiceNow ITOM/CMDB, Dynatrace, Aternity, Sentinel/SIEM, and automated patch/evidence workflows

Benefits:

- Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages

- 401K with company match

- Competitive pay and paid time off

- Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace

## Skills

### Required
- Cloud Architectures
- Cloud Engineering
- Enterprise Infrastructures
- Azure
- M365
- AVD
- Intune
- Windows endpoint management
- Defender for Endpoint
- Sentinel

### Nice to have
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
- Microsoft 365 Certified: Administrator Expert
- Azure AI Services

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