Sr. Cloud Engineer - Azure

Req ID: RQ

Type of Requisition: Regular

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None

Public Trust/Other Required: MBI (T2)

Job Family: IT Infrastructure and Operations

Skills:

Cloud Engineering,DevOps,Microsoft Azure

Experience:

5 + years of related experience

Job Description:

Advance how our customers operate while you advance your career. Join GDIT as a Senior Cloud Engineer and build an impactful career in enterprise IT, collaborating with people who are driven and resourceful like you.

Deliver simple solutions to complex problems as a Sr. Azure Cloud Engineer at GDIT. You’ll design, build, and optimize Azure cloud infrastructure to securely host healthcare applications and data, ensuring compliance with federal regulations and mission-critical operational requirements. This role sits on a platform engineering team responsible for cloud migration, application integration, and infrastructure automation in a FedRAMP ATO environment.

At GDIT, people are our differentiator. You will enable healthcare programs to scale securely, improve resiliency, and accelerate delivery while growing your career in cloud engineering.

This role is fully remote!

This role has a targeted start date towards the end of 2025/early 2026.

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and maintain secure, scalable Azure infrastructure for healthcare applications, data systems, and analytics workloads.

• Deploy and configure Azure services in compliance with FedRAMP Moderate/High, HIPAA, and FISMA requirements.

• Collaborate with development, security, and operations teams to integrate applications, APIs, and data workflows into Azure environments.

• Implement monitoring, logging, backup, disaster recovery, and high-availability solutions with Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and related services.

• Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration using Terraform, Bicep, or ARM templates.

• Optimize performance, scalability, and cost efficiency of cloud resources.

• Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure and networking issues to ensure system uptime.

• Contribute to security hardening by integrating Microsoft Sentinel, Defender for Cloud, and Defender for Endpoint.

• Maintain technical documentation for architectures, deployments, and operational procedures.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field

• 5+ years of experience in cloud engineering, administration, or operations, preferably in a federal healthcare environment

• Hands-on expertise with Azure IaaS, PaaS, and networking services

• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Bicep, ARM templates) and DevOps automation (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or similar)

• Strong understanding of cloud security best practices and compliance frameworks (FedRAMP, HIPAA, FISMA)

• Proficiency in scripting/automation languages (PowerShell, Python, Bash)

• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust

Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiarity with health data interoperability standards (FHIR, HL7).

• Experience with Microsoft Sentinel, Defender for Cloud, and Defender for Endpoint.

• Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate

• Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate

• Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert

• Additional certifications (e.g., CISSP, CCSP, Security+) a plus

• Strong troubleshooting and performance optimization skills.

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The likely salary range for this position is $99,450 - $134,550. 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. 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.

We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers consulting, technology and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 30,000 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 capabilities in digital modernization, AI/ML, Cloud, Cyber and application development. Together with our clients, we strive to create a safer, smarter world by harnessing the power of deep expertise and advanced technology.

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