CDAO Advana - AWS/Microsoft Enterprise Cloud Architect

Join GDIT and be a part of the team of men and women that solve some of the world's most complex technical challenges. The CDAO Advana team is seeking an AWS/Microsoft Enterprise Cloud Architect to join their efforts in the DC area.

Advana is the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office’s (CDAO) enterprise-wide, multi-domain data, analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI) platform that provides all DoD military and civilian decision makers, analysts, and builders with unprecedented access to enterprise data, tools, and capabilities.

This is a proposal with award expected June 2026. If interested, please apply as we are interviewing and making contingent offers now.

Duties include:

• Architects enterprise cloud environments supporting Advana modernization objectives across Unclassified and NIPR, Secret and SIPR, and Top Secret and JWICS enclaves by designing integrated infrastructure solutions that span compute, networking, storage, identity, logging, auditing, configuration management, continuity operations, and DevSecOps factory components.
• Leads cloud transformation initiatives that migrate legacy mission workloads into scalable, resilient, and secure architectures using AWS Organizations, Azure Active Directory, Azure Landing Zones, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud, Transit Gateway, Azure Virtual WAN, and hybrid identity services.
• Builds multicloud governance frameworks incorporating role-based access control models, encryption key management, SIEM integrations, log routing pipelines, and enclave-specific security controls aligned with Department of Defense cybersecurity directives.
• Conducts architecture assessments, alternatives-of-analysis evaluations, and technical design reviews to validate operational suitability for mission partners including Combatant Commands, Joint Staff elements, and interagency consumers.
• Develops advanced security reference architectures using AWS GuardDuty, AWS Security Hub, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Azure Sentinel, and enclave monitoring strategies to strengthen threat detection and compliance.
• Directs proof-of-concept and pilot implementations demonstrating cross-domain interoperability, zero-trust segmentation models, automated provisioning patterns, and cloud-native resilience capabilities.
• Delivers expert training, engineering playbooks, and modernization guidance that elevate cloud engineering proficiency across infrastructure, cybersecurity, DevSecOps, and mission application teams, advancing Advana enterprise cloud readiness and transformation outcomes.

Basic Qualifications:

• BS degree; additional years of experience may be considered in lieu of degree
• 8+ years of experience developing AWS/MS cloud environments
• TS with SCI eligibility

WHAT CAN GDIT OFFER YOU?

• Excellent customizable health benefits (Medical, Dental and Vision)
• 401K with company match
• Educational Assistance and eLearning
• Flexible work week
• Internal mobility team dedicated to employee advancement
• Rewards and Recognition programs
• Innovative and collaborative environment encouraging of highly motivated critical thinking