Cloud Developer Senior Principal

This a Full Remote job, the offer is available from: United States Type of Requisition: Regular Clearance Level Must Currently Possess: None Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: Secret Public Trust/Other Required: None Job Family: Software Engineering Job Qualifications: Skills: Cloud Computing, Cloud Development, Cloud Solutions Certifications: None Experience: 8 + years of related experience US Citizenship Required: Yes Job Description: Transform technology into opportunity as a Cloud Developer Senior Principal at GDIT. Shape what’s next for mission-critical government projects while shaping what’s next for your engineering career. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: Infrastructure Engineering & Automation:

• Develop, maintain, and refine Terraform code to support infrastructure-as-code best practices
• Assist the CDP Lead with defining baseline architectures and best practices for tenants
• Build, configure, and maintain AWS infrastructure across multiple tenant environments
• Implement and support AWS Instance Scheduler for resource optimization
• Manage automation solutions for inventory reporting, CMDB updates, log retention, and other operational needs
• Create and update architectural diagrams to reflect evolving solutions and infrastructure
• Support the development of custom solutions, such as log retention pipelines, inventory reporting, AppStream deployments, and other specialized requests

Security, Governance & Identity:

• Review and remediate AWS Security Hub findings to maintain compliance and security posture
• Integrate and support Okta / AWS SSO for secure identity and access management
• Implement AWS tagging strategies for governance, reporting, and cost allocation
• Manage ACM certificates, including issuance, renewal, and troubleshooting
• Administer AWS accounts, including creation, configuration, and governance
• Configure and maintain Service Control Policies (SCPs) to enforce guardrails and prevent tenant misconfigurations
• Support AWS Organizations and Control Tower onboarding activities

Tenant Support & Lifecycle Management:

• Onboard new tenants and offboard departing ones, ensuring appropriate provisioning, security, and documentation
• Assist tenants with complex technical issues, providing escalation support as needed
• Work with ENS to manage Zscaler ZPA components, including connectors, DNS considerations, and security groups
• Support SMTP solutioning and related integration tasks

Troubleshooting & Monitoring:

• Review AWS utilization and billing to identify opportunities for cost savings and performance improvements
• Troubleshoot infrastructure issues using AWS native tools such as CloudTrail, CloudWatch Logs/Metrics, VPC Flow Logs, and firewall logs
• Maintain and enhance Fluent-bit pipelines for log ingestion and retention across tenant environments

REQUIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Education: Technical Training, Certification(s) or Degree
• Experience: 8+ years of related experience
• Hands-on experience with Terraform for IaC
• Strong AWS engineering background across networking, compute, storage, and identity services
• Experience integrating SSO/identity providers (Okta) with AWS
• Understanding of AWS governance: Organizations, Control Tower, SCPs, tagging, and account management
• Familiarity with log management tools (Fluent-bit, CloudWatch Logs)
• Troubleshooting experience with AWS monitoring/logging tools
• Strong documentation and diagramming skills
• Excellent communication and customer support capabilities
• Knowledge of Zscaler ZPA or similar zero-trust solutions (preferred)

Security Clearance Level: Must be able to obtain and maintain a Secret clearance US Citizenship Required Location: Remote GDIT IS YOUR PLACE At GDIT, the mission is our purpose, and our people are at the center of everything we do.

• Growth: AI-powered career tool that identifies career steps and learning opportunities
• Support: An internal mobility team focused on helping you achieve your career goals
• Rewards: Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages, 401K with company match, and competitive pay and paid time off
• Community: Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace

OWN YOUR OPPORTUNITY Explore a career in software development at GDIT and you’ll find endless opportunities to grow alongside colleagues who share your dedication to advancing innovation. The likely salary range for this position is $136,000 - $184,000. 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: Remote Work Location: Any Location / Remote 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. GDIT typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and an additional 10 paid holidays per year. Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee’s date of hire. The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees. 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. We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers consulting, technology and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 30,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. We operate across 50 countries worldwide, offering leading capabilities in digital modernization, AI/ML, Cloud, Cyber and application development. Together with our clients, we strive to create a safer, smarter world by harnessing the power of deep expertise and advanced technology. Join our Talent Community to stay up to date on our career opportunities and events at gdit.com/tc. Equal Opportunity Employer / Individuals with Disabilities / Protected VeteransThis offer from "NES Associates, LLC" has been enriched by Jobgether.com and got a 72% flex score. Apply tot his job Apply To this Job