Cloud Engineer Principal

GDIT is seeking a Cloud Engineer Principal to support our internal GDIT Oracle Government Cloud (OCI) environment. In this role, you will help maintain the reliability, security, and performance of our cloud systems while working closely with cross functional teams across the organization. This position is ideal for someone with strong operational awareness, attention to detail, and a passion for cloud technologies.

• Monitor overall resource and system health across OCI.
• Analyze logs and metrics to identify performance issues and optimization opportunities.
• Review and respond to alarms, notifications, and security alerts.
• Track Cloud Guard findings and escalate or open tickets when issues are identified.
• Review CIS Benchmark compliance and flag noncompliant items for follow up.
• Perform IAM tasks including creating/removing users, updating policies, and adjusting group assignments.
• Route issues related to networking, compute, storage, backups, and applications to the appropriate technical teams.
• Validate system backups and disaster recovery status on a recurring basis.
• Analyze cost and usage reports to identify anomalies or unexpected consumption patterns.
• Track resource utilization by compartment, tags, and service usage.
• Review audit logs for unusual activity or possible security concerns.
• Work incoming support tickets related to the environment.
• Provide Tier III cloud infrastructure support for internal stakeholders, external customers, and vendor partners, rapidly diagnosing and resolving issues.
• Update documentation as processes evolve or configurations change.
• Participate in periodic reviews, cloud migrations, and modernization initiatives.
• Build dashboards for system health, resource tracking, and application performance monitoring.

• Bachelor’s degree or 8+ years of experience in lieu of a degree
• 10+ years of related experience
• 5+ years of experience working on cloud infrastructure managing cloud operations in Oracle or Azure.
• Experience working with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
• Knowledge of cloud security, IAM, monitoring, and governance best practices.
• Familiarity with CIS benchmarks, Cloud Guard, audit logs, or similar security frameworks.
• Strong problem solving skills with the ability to triage and escalating effectively.
• Ability to document processes clearly and maintain accurate operational records.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate across technical teams.
• Ability to obtain and maintain any required government clearances (if applicable).
• Ability to take on-call and work some nights and weekends.

• Should have at least an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure cloud certification.
• Proficient with developer tool sets such as Power Shell, Visual Studio Code, Git, JSON, YAML, Python, and Terraform.
• Be proficient in using cloud CLI and API calls to manage resources.
• Windows and Linux OS experience.

The likely salary range for this position is $142,792 - $166,750. 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.

Scheduled Weekly

Hours:

40

Travel Required:

None

Telecommuting Options:
Hybrid

Work Location:

USA VA Falls Church

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.

Equal Opportunity Employer / Individuals with Disabilities / Protected Veterans