Cloud Architect

Client Requirements

Applicants MUST BE US Citizens and be able to obtain Public Trust clearance.

About the Role

Seeking a Cloud Architect to help design, secure, and scale modern cloud solutions supporting high-impact federal initiatives. This role will focus on architecting resilient cloud environments, driving modernization efforts, and ensuring cloud security and compliance best practices are embedded throughout the solution lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement secure, scalable cloud infrastructure solutions
• Lead cloud modernization and migration efforts across enterprise environments
• Develop cloud architecture standards and best practices
• Partner with engineering, DevSecOps, and cybersecurity teams to deliver secure cloud solutions
• Ensure compliance with federal security and regulatory requirements
• Support IAM, encryption, infrastructure automation, CI/CD, and cloud operations
• Assess technical risks, architecture tradeoffs, resiliency, and performance optimization
• Translate mission and business needs into scalable cloud architectures

Who You Are

• A strategic cloud architect who enjoys solving complex infrastructure and modernization challenges
• Strong in both architecture design and cloud security best practices
• Comfortable partnering across engineering, security, compliance, and delivery teams
• A clear communicator who can influence both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Proactive, collaborative, and comfortable operating in evolving environments

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, or related field (or equivalent experience)
• 4+ years of professional experience in cloud engineering, infrastructure architecture, or cloud architecture roles
• Deep hands-on experience designing cloud solutions in AWS (EKS, EC2, RDS, S3 preferred) with exposure to Azure, particularly disaster recovery and resiliency planning
• Strong experience with Docker, Kubernetes, container orchestration, and infrastructure automation tools such as Ansible
• Strong understanding of cloud networking, compute, storage, IAM, security groups, monitoring, and infrastructure design
• Experience with cloud security architecture including IAM, encryption, secrets management, logging, vulnerability management, and secure access controls
• Knowledge of compliance frameworks such as...