Senior Principal Cloud Engineer — Mission-Critical Gov Cloud

General Dynamics IT; Falls Church (VA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401K with company match

Educational Assistance

Internal mobility

Rewards and Recognition

Job summary

General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc. seeks a Senior Principal Cloud Developer in Falls Church, VA, to lead cloud engineering across CSPs and secure, compliant environments. You will shape provisioning, IaC, CI/CD, and API gateway initiatives while ensuring RMF/JSIG alignment.

With a TS/SCI eligibility and extensive cloud experience, you will collaborate with government stakeholders and drive modernization in DoW SAP CIO operations.

Qualifications

• BS degree or equivalent experience in IT or DoW infrastructure.
• 10+ years of IT/DoW infrastructure and cloud experience.
• Top Secret with SCI eligibility required.
• Cloud certifications (AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, CISSP, CCSP, Security+).
• Proficient in cloud provisioning, IaC, and CI/CD.
• Experience with RMF, JSIG, NIST 800-53, IAM.

Responsibilities

• Provision, configure, and maintain CSP accounts, tenants, and cloud services.
• Develop and automate cloud provisioning, onboarding, and deprovisioning processes.
• Build and maintain IaC templates and CI/CD pipelines.
• Deploy and manage cloud compute, storage, networking, and VDI solutions.
• Develop and maintain API Gateway capabilities and cloud-native services.
• Monitor and optimize cloud platform performance, availability, and security.
• Support workload onboarding and integration with DoW networks.
• Engineer secure connectivity across multiple cloud and network environments.
• Maintain CMDB and change control processes.
• Ensure RMF/JSIG/NIST compliance and cloud governance.
• Collaborate with mission owners, CSPs, DISA, and stakeholders.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Terraform

CI/CD

Security

Python

Kubernetes

IaC

VMware / virtualization

Education

BS degree

Tools

AWS

Azure

Kubernetes

CloudFormation

Terraform

Ansible

GitHub/GitLab/Jenkins

Job description

General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc. seeks a Senior Principal Cloud Developer in Falls Church, VA, to lead cloud engineering across CSPs and secure, compliant environments. You will shape provisioning, IaC, CI/CD, and API gateway initiatives while ensuring RMF/JSIG alignment.

With a TS/SCI eligibility and extensive cloud experience, you will collaborate with government stakeholders and drive modernization in DoW SAP CIO operations.