Type of Requisition:
Pipeline

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:
Top Secret SCI + Polygraph

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:
Top Secret SCI + Polygraph

Public Trust/Other Required:
None

Job Family:
IT Infrastructure and Operations

Job Qualifications:

Skills:
Cloud Infrastructure Services, Enterprise Network, Infrastructure Automation
Certifications:
None
Experience:
10 + years of related experience
US Citizenship Required:
Yes

Job Description:

Infrastructure/Cloud Architect Sr. Principal

We're looking for an experienced Infrastructure/Cloud Architect to design and lead delivery of resilient, secure, and scalable enterprise infrastructure across on-prem, hybrid, and cloud environments.

Required Qualifications
• Education: Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science or equivalent
• Experience: 10+ years of related experience
• Security clearance level: Active TS/SCI with poly
• US citizenship required
• 10+ years in infrastructure, operations, or engineering, including 5+ years designing enterprise-scale infrastructure architectures (on-prem, hybrid, and/or cloud).
• Delivered 3+ production cloud or hybrid environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP) with network segmentation, identity integration, high availability, and DR aligned to RPO/RTO targets.
• Designed and deployed 2+ enterprise network architectures (hub-and-spoke, SD-WAN, zero trust), including routing, firewalls/WAF, VPN/DirectConnect/ExpressRoute, and DNS/IPAM.
• Delivered 5+ infrastructure automation initiatives using IaC tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Bicep and configuration management (Ansible, Puppet, Chef), with measurable improvements in provisioning speed or reduction in manual effort.
• Proven ownership of production environments meeting reliability and security targets (e.g., 99.9%+ availability, patch SLAs, vulnerability remediation), with strong observability, incident/problem management, and controls aligned to frameworks like NIST, CIS, or ISO 27001.

Desired Qualifications
• Understanding of best practices for enterprise storage architecture and operations.

The likely salary range for this position is $169,604 - $229,464. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Scheduled Weekly Hours:
40

Travel Required:
Less than 10%

Telecommuting Options:
Onsite

Work Location:
USA VA Chantilly

Additional Work Locations:

Total Rewards at GDIT:
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. 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. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.