Principal Azure and M365 Cloud Architect - TS/SCI with Polygraph

General Dynamics IT; Chantilly (VA); On-site; USD 164,000 - 213,000; Full time

Job summary

General Dynamics IT is seeking a highly experienced Cloud Architect to lead Azure government and M365 initiatives. The role focuses on defining governance, security, and workload-placement patterns across enclaves, with strong collaboration with security and operations teams.

The successful candidate will mentor engineers, brief senior stakeholders, and drive phased migration roadmaps while ensuring compliance with RMF/ATO boundaries and Zero Trust principles.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or approved equivalent experience in a related field.
• 10+ years of enterprise infrastructure/cloud engineering experience.
• Hands-on architecture experience with Microsoft Azure and M365 for government cloud boundaries.

Responsibilities

• Define and govern Azure landing-zone, subscription/management-group, tenant, network, identity, policy, logging, key-management, and workload-placement patterns.
• Document UMIS architecture and SCMIS hybrid Exchange/M365 decisions as reusable reference patterns.
• Architect AVD/EUC, Intune, Windows 11 endpoint management, Defender for Endpoint, Sentinel, Exchange hybrid, Teams/collaboration, backup/recovery, and service continuity.
• Define Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, artifact, image, configuration, and promotion standards with the Cloud Platform/DevSecOps Engineers.
• Partner with Security to develop control implementation, logging, evidence, and continuous monitoring patterns.
• Partner with Service Operations to define capacity, observability, SLOs, incident response, patching, and operational acceptance.
• Evaluate Microsoft, WWT, Dell, and other partner capabilities; make evidence-based product and service recommendations.
• Lead cloud architecture reviews, mentor engineers, and brief Government and program leadership on migration risk, cost, readiness, and trade-offs.

Skills

Cloud architectures

Cloud engineering

Enterprise infrastructures

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/IT/Cloud Engineering/Software Engineering or related field

Job description

Type of Requisition:

Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:

Top Secret SCI + Polygraph

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:

Top Secret SCI + Polygraph

Public Trust/Other Required:

None

Job Family:

IT Infrastructure and Operations

Job Qualifications:

• Skills: Cloud Architectures, Cloud Engineering, Enterprise Infrastructures
• Certifications: None
• Experience: 10 + years of related experience
• US Citizenship Required: Yes

Job Description:

Key Responsibilities:

• Define and govern Azure landing-zone, subscription/management-group, tenant, network, identity, policy, logging, key-management, and workload-placement patterns appropriate to each enclave and classification boundary.
• Document UMIS architecture and SCMIS hybrid Exchange/M365 decisions as reusable reference patterns with assumptions, constraints, and known exceptions.
• Architect AVD/EUC, Intune, Windows 11 endpoint management, Defender for Endpoint, Sentinel, Exchange hybrid, Teams/collaboration, backup/recovery, and service continuity.
• Define Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, artifact, image, configuration, and promotion standards with the Cloud Platform/DevSecOps Engineers.
• Partner with Security to develop control implementation, inheritance, logging, evidence, and cATO-ready continuous monitoring patterns.
• Partner with Service Operations to define capacity, observability, SLOs, incident response, change windows, patching, and operational acceptance.
• Evaluate Microsoft, WWT, Dell, and other partner capabilities; make evidence-based product and service recommendations without outsourcing architecture ownership.
• Lead cloud architecture reviews, mentor engineers, and brief Government and program leadership on migration risk, cost, readiness, and trade-offs.

Required qualifications

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Cloud Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related field, or approved equivalent experience.
• Location: Onsite
• Clearance: Active TS/SCI with Polygraph
• 10+ years of enterprise infrastructure/cloud engineering experience, including 5+ years designing and delivering Microsoft Azure and M365 solutions.
• Hands-on architecture experience with Azure Government and/or M365 government cloud boundaries, including GCC or GCC High considerations.
• Deep experience with Azure networking, tenant/subscription governance, Entra ID, Conditional Access, RBAC/PIM, policy, logging, and security controls.
• Strong experience with at least three of the following: AVD, Intune, Windows endpoint management, Exchange hybrid, Teams, Defender for Endpoint, Sentinel, Azure Monitor, backup/recovery, or migration tooling.
• Experience developing phased migration roadmaps for heterogeneous applications, identities, endpoints, and data across multiple enclaves or business units.
• Working knowledge of IaC, CI/CD, containers, internal artifact management, and secure promotion in restricted environments.
• Strong understanding of RMF, ATO boundary impacts, STIGs, Zero Trust, data classification, control evidence, and operational readiness.
• Demonstrated technical leadership, mentoring, vendor management, and ability to brief technical and executive Government stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert and Microsoft 365 Certified: Administrator Expert. Identity and Access Administrator Associate, Cybersecurity Architect Expert, Azure Administrator Associate and Azure Virtual Desktop Specialty are complementary. Full certification prerequisites apply.
• Experience designing contractor-operated managed services, service catalogs, FinOps practices, license optimization, and SLA-based platform operations.
• Experience integrating Azure/M365 with Cisco ISE/TrustSec, ServiceNow ITOM/CMDB, Dynatrace, Aternity, Sentinel/SIEM, and automated patch/evidence workflows.
• Prior DoW/IC cloud migration experience, including disconnected or high-side engineering constraints.
• Experience with Azure AI Services or locally hosted AI workloads where commercial service availability is constrained.

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 an enterprise IT career at GDIT and you'll find endless opportunities to grow alongside colleagues who share your desire to drive operations forward.

The likely salary range for this position is $164,382 - $212,750. 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.

Sched