Lead Cloud Architect

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of the comprehensive cloud and infrastructure architecture for a substantial greenfield SAP S/4HANA financial management modernization initiative.

• Create the approved hosting environment, network structure, connectivity approach, and integration with the client's enterprise cloud.

• Lead and nurture the cloud and platform engineering team, encompassing task allocation, quality of delivery, staffing, performance assessment, and capability enhancement.

• Design environments for development, testing, staging, training, and production, including sizing, refresh strategies, and capacity planning.

• Ensure adherence to federal cloud security standards, which include FedRAMP authorization levels and DoD Cloud Computing Security Requirements Guide impact levels.

• Collaborate with risk management framework and security teams on authorization documentation, control implementation and evaluation, POA&M, and ongoing authorization to operate.

• Establish standards for infrastructure hardening, baseline configuration management, vulnerability scanning, and patch management.

• Design integration for identity, credential, and access management, including federation, multifactor authentication, and privileged access management.

• Implement infrastructure-as-code, automation, and configuration management methodologies.

• Develop resilience, backup, high availability, and disaster recovery architecture for denied, degraded, intermittent, and limited-bandwidth scenarios.

• Define approaches for containerization, orchestration, portability, and container hardening.

• Manage platform monitoring, logging, observability, audit log retention, and protection.

• Present and defend architectural designs during program milestone reviews and in government security and architecture working groups.

• Provide guidance to program leadership concerning hosting costs, licensing and consumption models, as well as technical and scheduling implications.

• Be prepared to travel up to 50% to client locations.

• Set performance goals, offer coaching and feedback, conduct evaluations, and address performance issues.

• Cultivate employee growth through coaching, mentoring, training, and challenging assignments.

• Promote an inclusive, respectful, and high-performing workplace culture.

• Organize, assign, and prioritize tasks; manage team workloads and staffing; and escalate resource-related risks.

• Adhere to company policies and employment practices; collaborate with HR to mitigate people, delivery, and compliance risks.

• Communicate decisions and modifications effectively, ensuring alignment of objectives across matrixed, cross-functional, and client environments.

• Execute other related responsibilities as assigned.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field or equivalent experience; 8-12 years of pertinent experience and 3-5 years of leadership experience with a Bachelor’s degree, or 10-14 years of relevant experience and 5-8 years of leadership experience without a degree.

• Over 8 years of experience in cloud or enterprise infrastructure architecture, with at least 5 years focused on a major public cloud platform.

• Proven experience in designing and delivering workloads within a government cloud environment, such as Azure Government, AWS GovCloud, or an equivalent accredited enclave.

• Familiarity with FedRAMP authorization, the DoD Cloud Computing Security Requirements Guide, and Impact Level 4 and 5 hosting criteria.

• Experience in supporting the risk management framework authorization process, including control implementation, documentation production, and continuous monitoring.

• Demonstrated proficiency in infrastructure-as-code, automation, and CI/CD tooling within a controlled setting.

• Skilled in designing high availability, backup, and disaster recovery architectures for mission-critical enterprise applications.

• Experience in leading an engineering team, including task allocation, quality control, and performance management.

• Must satisfy DoDM 8140.03 IAT Level II baseline certification requirements, such as CompTIA Security+ CE, before being granted privileged access.

• Must acquire any necessary computing environment certification mandated by the Government within six months of assignment.

• A Secret security clearance is required: must possess an active Secret clearance or be able to obtain and maintain one prior to assignment; U.S. citizenship is necessary.

• Ability to travel up to 50% to client sites.

• Advanced certifications are highly valued.

• Nice to have: experience in hosting or integrating SAP S/4HANA workloads within an accredited federal cloud, SAP-certified infrastructure sizing, and HANA platform operations.

• Nice to have: Azure Solutions Architect Expert or AWS Solutions Architect Professional certification.

• Nice to have: implementation experience of zero trust reference architecture in a defense setting.

• Nice to have: experience with hardened container registries, Kubernetes orchestration, and DevSecOps pipeline accreditation.

• Nice to have: involvement in federal ERP modernization programs, Department of War SAP environments, or other defense business systems acquired under DoDI 5000.75.

• Nice to have: CISSP or equivalent advanced security certification.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical coverage

• Dental coverage

• Vision coverage

• Life insurance

• Long-term disability coverage

• 401(k) plan

• Bonus opportunities

• Paid holidays

• Paid time off

• Personal development support