
Lead Cloud Architect
General Dynamics Information Technology
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Job overview
General Dynamics Information Technology seeks a Lead Cloud Architect to modernize and expand a federal client’s cloud capabilities. The role leads scalable cloud infrastructure design, multi-cloud systems, and cloud adoption strategies while guiding DevOps and SecOps engineers. It requires 10+ years of IT or digital transformation experience, hands-on cloud architecture experience, and CI/CD pipeline build-out experience. The position is remote and does not offer sponsorship.
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Full job description
Req ID: RQ231565
Type of Requisition: Regular
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None
Public Trust/Other Required: BI Full 6C (T4)
Job Family: Software Engineering
Skills:
Cloud Development,Cloud Solutions,Cloud Technology
Experience:
10 + years of related experience
Job Description:
General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) seeks a Lead Cloud Architect to join our innovative cloud infrastructure team. In this role, you will collaborate directly with our federal client to modernize and expand their cloud capabilities.
What You'll Do:
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Lead the design of scalable cloud infrastructure.
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Develop systems to scale support for multi-cloud environments, cross-account applications, SASE, and automated solutions.
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Collaborate with client stakeholders to define technical requirements and objectives.
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Guide a team of DevOps and SecOps engineers, ensuring innovative and secure cloud strategies.
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Promote CI/CD practices and automation tools for provisioning cloud services.
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Partner with senior leadership, enterprise architecture teams, and agency personnel to build cloud adoption strategies.
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Communicate complex cloud architectures effectively to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
What You’ll Need:
Minimum Requirements :
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Technical Training, Certification(s) or Degree
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10+ years of IT/digital transformation experience.
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5+ years of deep hands-on AWS (preferred), Azure, or GCP cloud architectures and implementations.
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Build-out experience of CI/CD Pipelines
Preferred Qualifications :
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Experience with Linux OS
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Experience with DevOps/DevSecOps methodologies and tools (e.g., Terraform, Jenkins, GitLab).
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Professional Cloud Certifications (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
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Proven experience bridging on-premise systems with cloud environments.
Security Clearance Level: Must be able to pass a background check to obtain a position of Public Trust.
Sponsorship is not being offered for this position. Candidates must have Official legal status in the United States and continuously resided in the United States for the last two year.
Location: Remote
GDIT IS YOUR PLACE
At GDIT, t he 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
● Flexibility: Full-flex work week to own your priorities at work and at home
● Community: Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace
OWN YOUR OPPORTUNITY
Explore a career in software development at GDIT and you’ll find endless opportunities to grow alongside colleagues who share your dedication to advancing innovation.
#GDITLA
The likely salary range for this position is $170,144 - $230,000. 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.
Total Rewards at GDIT:
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. GDIT typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and an additional 10 paid holidays per year. Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee’s date of hire. The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees. 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.
Our Identity Verification Process:
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.
About Our Work:
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.
Join our Talent Community to stay up to date on our career opportunities and events at https://gdit.com/tc.
Equal Opportunity Employer / Individuals with Disabilities / Protected Veterans
How this job compares
Set against the 3,031 open Cloud Architect jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 8, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$170–230K/yr
- Virginia median$147–208K/yr253 salary ranges
- US median$147–238K/yr2,754 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $200K, is 11% above the Virginia median midpoint ($181K) — in the top quarter of Cloud Architect salary ranges in Virginia.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 281 open Cloud Architect jobs in Virginia and 3,031 across the US. 12% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Virginia
- Amazon142 open
- Oracle13 open
- General Dynamics Information Technology (this employer)11 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 10 years of experience; Cloud Architect postings that state a minimum ask for 9 years at the median (2,590 postings).
- Education
- 837 of the 3,031 open Cloud Architect jobs (28%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 8, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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