Type of Requisition:

Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:

Top Secret

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:

Top Secret

Public Trust/Other Required:

None

Job Family:

Software Engineering

Job Qualifications:

Skills:

Cloud Automation, Cloud Software, DevSecOps, Requirements Analysis, Systems Engineering

Certifications:

None

Experience:

8 + years of related experience

US Citizenship Required:

Yes

Job Description:

Transform technology into opportunity as a Cloud Engineer at GDIT. Shape what’s next for mission-critical government projects while shaping what’s next for your engineering career.

MEANINGFUL WORK AND PERSONAL IMPACT

As a Cloud Engineer, the work you’ll do at GDIT will be impactful by providing support to the Naval Supply Systems Command (NAVSUP) Ordnance Information System (OIS) and to provide technical expertise on a mission-critical program.

• We’re looking for an engineer who is passionate about emerging technology, thrives in highly technical environments, and enjoys collaborating with top talent. If you bring strong experience in Linux/Windows administration, Cloud engineering, automation, and DevSecOps, you’ll find this role both challenging and rewarding.

• You’ll be a key member of the OIS Cloud/DevSecOps team, contributing to a major Navy modernization effort that demands innovation, reliability, and engineering excellence. Your work will directly enhance mission readiness and operational effectiveness across the fleet.

• Provide hands-on cloud engineering support across development, integration, testing, and operations for complex cloud-based applications.

• Lead system engineering activities—including requirements analysis, architecture design, technical assessments, and interface standards development.

• Partner closely with customer Product Owners to develop key engineering documentation such as system requirements, capability definitions, and interface control documents using GitLab Ultimate, Azure DevOps, and other architecture tools.

• Serve as the primary technical liaison between NAVSUP OIS and the third0party cloud broker (NAVAIR), supporting cloud operations, cost estimates, access controls, and resource planning.

• Guide Agile and DevSecOps best practices across the portfolio (SAFe, Scrum, Kanban), including backlog management, governance, and continuous improvement.

• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines, enforce tool and process standardization, and ensure compliance with Navy security standards.

• Support installation, configuration, testing, and sustainment of operating systems, application stacks, and system management tools.

• Strengthen system performance, availability, security, and resilience through sound engineering practices, documentation and automation.

WHAT YOU0LL NEED TO SUCCEED

Bring your engineering expertise along with a drive for innovation to GDIT. Our Cloud Engineer must have:

• Security Clearance Level: Active Top Secret clearance

• Experience: 8+ years of cloud engineering and architecting enterprise IT solutions

• Extensive understanding and experience programming and designing software using Terraform, Ansible, Java, J2EE, Oracle, WebLogic, Tomcat and AWS cloud services

• Experience with modern development software, tools, and methodologies; Jenkins, GitLab Ultimate, Jira, Nexus, Maven, OpenShift, SonarQube, Fortify, Junit, Karma, Selenium, Cyprus, Docker, Artifactory

• Demonstrated expertise in systems engineering, including requirements analysis and system architecture design

• Ability to liaise with government, vendors, and other IT personnel for problem resolution

• Demonstrated experience in network and cyber security design, engineering, and operations with emphasis on Navy capabilities

• Demonstrated experience developing models using Sparx EA, Splunk, MuleSoft, SalesForce

• Experience with NIST SP 800 series or ISO 27000 series documents for information security management and risk assessment

• Experience with Angular, ReactJS, Spring MVC, JQuery, JSF, JSP, MyBatis, Hibernate, IBM MQ, Kafka, ELK, or PLSQL

• Demonstrated experience with server virtualization technologies such as VMware, Citrix, or Hyper-V

• Demonstrated experience with operating systems such as RedHat Linux and Windows Server

• Demonstrated experience in ITIL, ISO20000 / ISO27001 implementations

• At least one nationally recognized vendor certification

• Navy experience

• Strong verbal and written technical communication skills

• Certification Requirements:

• 8570.1/8140 - IAT II CompTIA Security+ CE.

• Computing Environment Certification: AWS Certified Solutions Architect or similar equivalent Cloud environment certification (if not in hand, must be obtained within 6 months of onboarding)

• Education: BS/BA Degree.

• Work Location:Mechanicsburg, PA or Yorktown, VA.

• US Citizenship Required

The likely salary range for this position is $125,800 - $170,200. 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 Yorktown

Additional Work Locations:

USA PA Mechanicsburg

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.