Azure Cloud Developer Principal

Own the opportunity as an Azure Cloud Developer Principal and help ensure the mission is never interrupted. At GDIT, we deliver clarity with our cloud solutions and provide meaningful work. Your work will be an important part of transforming our clients for the modern age and help them face any obstacle.

At GDIT, people are our differentiator. As an Azure Cloud Developer Principal, you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Our work depends on an Azure Cloud Developer Principal joining our dynamic team to work in a fast-paced environment with engineering, migration, and operations. We’re looking for a self-starter to work both as part of the team and on individual assignments in an environment of customer mission delivery, integrity, and communications.

We’re looking to fill this role with someone who currently has the cloud experience, certifications, and skills to execute in large environments, is flexible and enjoys tackling challenges, and desires to join a large team that is building and sustaining a large multi-tenant cloud platform/enterprise and migrating/expanding/automating the enterprise. If this sounds like you and you love to learn and grow with a team while delivering program milestones, then we’d love to hear from you!

HOW AN AZURE CLOUD DEVELOPER PRINCIPAL WILL MAKE AN IMPACT:

• Ensure operational stability, availability, performance, and scalability of cloud-hosted systems across production and development environments supporting multiple agile teams
• Provide real-time monitoring, alerting, incident response, and health checks for infrastructure and applications across all cloud layers (OS, app, DB)
• Implement and maintain dashboards, visualizations, and reports for system health, event management, and cost optimization using native Azure tools
• Manage cloud resource thresholds and automate capacity planning, forecasting, and resource optimization strategies
• Perform incident and event management (SIEM) operations, and support issue diagnosis, resolution, and reporting including RCA documentation
• Track, document, and report monthly issues, including system performance, stability, ticket volumes, and time-to-resolution metrics
• Monitor resource utilization (CPU, memory, disk space) across all deployed VMs, containers, and PaaS components
• Contribute to the implementation of the ServiceNow Management, Instrumentation and Discovery (MID) servers
• Support deployment automation and ensure systems are resilient, repeatable, and scalable via Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Execute daily or agreed frequency system health checks and maintain operational Runbooks and SOPs

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED:

Education: Technical Training, Certification(s) or Degree

Experience: 5+ years of related experience

Required Skills:

• Deep expertise with Azure services, including monitoring, logging, compute, storage, and networking
• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform, or Azure Bicep
• Hands-on experience with monitoring and APM tools such as Azure Monitor, etc.
• Solid understanding of incident response, change management, and ITIL-based operational support
• Familiarity with CI/CD toolchains and automation platforms (GitHub Actions, GitLab,)
• Strong scripting skills (Python, PowerShell, Bash) for automation and orchestration
• Experienced in developing, testing, and maintaining containerized applications
• Expert knowledge of source version control, build/release tools and methodologies, CI/CD pipelines and the Software Build process for large enterprises that consists of a large number of complex applications
• Experience with cost modeling, forecasting, and optimization tools within cloud platforms
• Understanding of federal compliance and security frameworks (e.g., FedRAMP, NIST Rev 5)
• ITIL, Azure Fundamentals, Azure Developer Associate certifications are a plus
• Excellent communication skills with demonstrated experience delivering presentations to diverse audiences at various levels of an organization

Preferred Skills:

• ITIL, Azure Fundamentals, Azure Developer Associate certifications are a plus

Security Clearance Level: Must be able to obtain a position of Public Trust with federal client; associated background check will require a clean financial background

US Citizenship Required

Location: Remote

​GDIT IS YOUR PLACE:

• 401K with company match
• Comprehensive health and wellness packages
• Internal mobility team dedicated to helping you own your career
• Professional growth opportunities including paid education and certifications
• Cutting-edge technology you can learn from
• Rest and recharge with paid vacation and holidays