Senior Cloud Architect

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

📋 Description

• Design and implement secure cloud architectures for government entities, encompassing landing zones, networking, identity management, storage, databases, application hosting, monitoring, and other essential cloud services.

• Convert application, data, integration, performance, security, and operational specifications into scalable and maintainable solutions.

• Construct, review, test, and troubleshoot vital cloud components, including infrastructure-as-code, cloud configurations, deployment automation, identity and access controls, networking, observability, and system integrations.

• Lead the resolution of intricate technical issues across application and cloud environments utilizing logs, metrics, traces, targeted testing, and root-cause analysis.

• Design authorization frameworks by optimizing the reuse of authorized services, inherited controls, and existing government platform capabilities.

• Collaborate with cybersecurity/RMF teams on defining boundaries, data flows, interfaces, ports/protocols, and interconnections.

• Establish secure deployment and integration strategies with engineering and DevSecOps teams, focusing on CI/CD, artifact promotion, configuration management, automated validation, environment progression, APIs, data movement, and multi-enclave connectivity.

• Develop reusable engineering assets, such as tested infrastructure-as-code modules, reference implementations, architectural patterns, deployment templates, technical standards, runbooks, and troubleshooting guidance.

• Offer hands-on technical leadership throughout delivery and operations, mentor engineers, and ensure production readiness, observability, resiliency, recovery, rollback, supportability, and capacity/cost planning.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, or a related field with over 12 years of pertinent experience; additional experience may substitute for a degree.

• In-depth hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure architecture and engineering, including networking, identity and access management, PaaS services, application hosting, data services, security, monitoring, and resiliency.

• Proven experience in architecting and delivering production systems within U.S. Government, DoD, or similarly regulated cloud environments.

• Strong understanding of government cloud security and authorization standards, including zero trust, least privilege, security boundaries, inherited controls, and DoD RMF/ATO considerations.

• Experience in designing and implementing cloud landing zones, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, environment progression, and secure software deployment methodologies.

• Experience architecting complex integrations across cloud, enterprise, and restricted environments, including APIs, identity, data movement, network boundaries, and multi-enclave solutions.

• Demonstrated ability to develop reusable cloud architecture patterns and technical standards that cater to multiple applications, products, or engineering teams.

• Capability to obtain and maintain the U.S. Government security clearance and privileged environment access required for assigned tasks.

• Experience in designing and operating solutions in classified government cloud environments, including SIPR or equivalent.

• Extensive experience with Azure PaaS and data services, particularly Cosmos DB, Azure Data Factory, API Management, Key Vault, Azure Monitor, Azure Policy, and Microsoft Entra ID.

• Experience in architecting enterprise data, knowledge graph, analytics, or AI-enabled platforms within secure cloud environments.

• Experience in establishing cloud governance and FinOps practices across multiple subscriptions, products, or programs.

• Advanced Microsoft Azure architecture or security certifications.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and performance-based bonuses.

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance.

• Retirement savings plan with employer matching.

• Opportunities for professional development and career advancement.

• Flexible work arrangements and a supportive company culture.