Principal Azure and M365 Cloud Architect - TS/SCI with Polygraph
General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT)
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Job summary
General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) is seeking a senior cloud architect to define and govern Azure landing zones, governance across GCC/GCC High, and M365 government boundaries. You will document reference patterns, architect end-to-end solutions, and lead architecture reviews with government stakeholders.
Responsibilities include IaC, CI/CD, security controls, and coordinating with Security and Service Operations to ensure capacity and observability.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or approved equivalent experience in a related field.
- Active TS/SCI with Polygraph clearance as a requirement.
- 10+ years of enterprise infrastructure/cloud engineering experience.
- 5+ years designing and delivering Microsoft Azure and M365 solutions.
- Hands-on experience with Azure Government and/or M365 government cloud boundaries (GCC/GCC High).
- Deep experience with Azure networking, governance, Entra ID, CA, RBAC/PIM, policy, logging, security controls.
- Experience with at least three of: AVD, Intune, Windows endpoint management, Exchange hybrid, Teams, Defender for Endpoint, Sentinel, Azure Monitor, backup/recovery, migration tooling.
- Ability to lead architecture reviews and brief government leadership.
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 patterns.
- Architect AVD/EUC, Intune, Windows 11 endpoint management, Defender for Endpoint, Sentinel, Exchange hybrid, Teams/collaboration, backup/recovery, service continuity.
- Define IaC, CI/CD, artifact, image, configuration, and promotion standards with Cloud Platform/DevSecOps Engineers.
- Partner with Security to develop control implementation, logging and continuous monitoring patterns.
- Partner with Service Operations to define capacity, observability, SLOs, incident response, change windows, patching, and operational acceptance.
- Evaluate vendors and make evidence-based recommendations; maintain architecture ownership.
- Lead cloud architecture reviews, mentor engineers, brief Government leadership on migration risk and cost.
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Job description
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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
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.
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. 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.
As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during virtual interviews. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud. By proceeding, you authorize the collection, processing, and use of your biometric data for identity verification and security purposes.
We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers technology solutions and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 26,000 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 mission-ready capabilities in AI, cloud, cyber and software development.
Equal Opportunity Employer / Individuals with Disabilities / Protected Veterans
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