Cloud Architect

General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc.; Waipahu (HI); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Full-flex work week

401K with company match

Comprehensive health and wellness

Professional growth opportunities

Paid vacation and holidays

Job summary

General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc. seeks a Cloud Architect to support USINDOPACOM J6 modernization. You will design secure hybrid-cloud architectures and guide migration projects to enable interoperable mission capabilities for U.S. forces and partners.

You will partner with government stakeholders and engineers to translate operational priorities into concrete technical outcomes, develop roadmaps, and ensure compliance and RMF authorization. Onsite at Camp Smith with minimal travel.

Qualifications

• Education: BA/BS required.
• Experience: 8+ years of relevant technical experience.
• Security clearance: Top Secret. U.S. citizenship required.
• Core technical qualifications: Cloud architecture; hybrid cloud; secure migration; automation; compliance; modernization roadmaps.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate with government stakeholders, write clear engineering documentation, evaluate risk, and coordinate across cyber, engineering, and operations teams.
• Work location: Onsite, Camp Smith. Travel: Less than 10%.

Responsibilities

• Develop secure hybrid-cloud and cloud-adjacent architectures to support modernization and interoperability.
• Assess workloads for migration, rehosting, refactoring, or retention based on mission requirements and constraints.
• Define reference architectures for identity, networking, encryption, observability, resilience, and IaC automation.
• Coordinate cloud architecture with Zero Trust, RMF, data handling, cross-domain, and enterprise networking requirements.
• Develop cloud migration roadmaps, architecture decision records, cost/risk studies, and transition plans.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Hybrid cloud

Secure migration

Automation

Compliance

Modernization roadmaps

Cloud certifications (AWS/Azure/Google

Education

BA/BS degree

Tools

Cloud security

RMF authorization

Job description

Mission and opportunity

GDIT seeks a Cloud Architect to support U.S. Indo-Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM) J6 engineering, modernization, and sustainment. The position contributes to IT modernization project support, strengthening secure, resilient, interoperable mission capabilities for U.S. forces and mission partners throughout the Indo-Pacific. This role partners directly with government stakeholders and multidisciplinary engineers to translate operational priorities into executable technical outcomes.

How you will make an impact

• Develop secure hybrid-cloud and cloud-adjacent architectures that support J6 enterprise modernization and mission partner interoperability.

• Assess application and infrastructure workloads for migration, rehosting, refactoring, or retention based on mission requirements, connectivity, cybersecurity, and sustainment constraints.

• Define reference architectures for identity, networking, encryption, observability, resilience, backup/recovery, and infrastructure-as-code automation.

• Coordinate cloud architecture with Zero Trust, RMF authorization, data handling, cross-domain, and enterprise networking requirements.

• Develop cloud migration roadmaps, architecture decision records, cost/risk trade studies, proof-of-concept criteria, and transition plans.

What you will need to succeed

• Education: BA/BS required.

• Experience: 8+ years of relevant technical experience.

• Security clearance: Top Secret. U.S. citizenship required.

• Core technical qualifications: Cloud architecture; hybrid cloud; secure migration; automation; compliance; modernization roadmaps.

• Demonstrated ability to communicate with government stakeholders, write clear engineering documentation, evaluate risk, and coordinate across cyber, engineering, and operations teams.

• Work location: Onsite, Camp Smith. Travel: Less than 10%.

Preferred qualifications

• AWS/Azure/Google Cloud certifications; DoD cloud environments; IaC; containers/Kubernetes; DevSecOps and FinOps.

• Experience with combatant commands, joint operations, service components, and coalition or mission partner environments.

GDIT Is Your Place

• Full-flex work week to own your priorities at work and at home, when eligible and approved.
• 401K with company match.
• Comprehensive health and wellness packages.
• Professional growth opportunities, internal mobility, paid education, and certifications.
• Rest and recharge with paid vacation and holidays.

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