GDIT

Cyber and IT Risk Management

CloudSecurityEngineer

$111–150k Falls Church, Virginia, United States FULL TIME
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Cloud Security Engineer at GDIT. Skills: Cloud Security, Patch Management, Vulnerability Scanning, Monitoring, Incident Response. Conducts patch management operations across Advana cloud enclaves. Operates cloud logging and monitoring mechanisms”

What You'll Achieve.

Detect configuration drift, unauthorized change activity, and misconfigurations affecting Advana readiness; Generate incident response metrics such as mean time to detect, mean time to respond, containment intervals, and recovery validation results; Contribute to mission-aligned cloud security modernization efforts

Industry & Context.

Cyber and IT Risk Management
Problems you'll solve

Identifying required updates; Identifying root causes; Proposing corrective actions

Eligibility Requirements

Top Secret/SCI clearance, US Citizenship Required

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

3 + years of related experience, Technical Training, Certification(s) or Degree, Top Secret/SCI clearance

Nice to Have

Amazon Web Services AWS Security-Specialty certification

What You'll Do.

Conducts patch management operations across Advana cloud enclaves

Operates cloud logging and monitoring mechanisms

Supports deployment and evaluation of incident response procedures

Contributes to incident triage

Strengthens defensive posture across NIPRNet

and JWICS environments

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Collaborates with Joint Staff elements and mission-owner communities; Prepares status reporting for senior operational leaders; Participates in lessons learned reviews

Communication Scope

Preparing status reporting for senior operational leaders

Full Job Description

**_Type of Requisition:_** Pipeline _**Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:**_ Top Secret/SCI _**Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:**_ Top Secret/SCI ** _Public Trust/Other Required:_** None _**Job Family:**_ Cyber and IT Risk Management ** _Job Qualifications:_** **Skills:** Computer Security, Information Systems, Security Information **Certifications:** None **Experience:** 3 + years of related experience **US Citizenship Required:** Yes _**Job Description:**_ Advance your career while impacting our national security in cyber as Cloud Security Engineer at GDIT. Here, technologists have many paths to grow a meaningful career supporting cyber missions and operations across the federal government. The Advana team is seeking a Cloud Security Engineer to join their program**.** Advana is the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office’s (CDAO) enterprise-wide, multi-domain data, analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI) platform that provides all DoD military and civilian decision makers, analysts, and builders with unprecedented access to enterprise data, tools, and capabilities. **Cloud Security Engineer** * Conducts patch management operations across Advana cloud enclaves by operating vulnerability scanning workflows, identifying required updates, tracking patch applicability, and automating deployment actions aligned with Department of Defense patching directives supporting Joint Staff elements and mission-owner communities. * Validates patch implementation in controlled environments by executing test sequences, reviewing system behavior, and confirming compliance with configuration baselines across virtual machines, containerized services, Infrastructure as Code modules, and platform services. Operates cloud logging and monitoring mechanisms using CloudWatch, GuardDuty, Splunk, Elastic clusters, and integrated SIEM pipelines to detect configuration drift, unauthorized change activity, and misconfigurations affecting Advana readiness. * Supports depl

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