Senior Cloud Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Oversee enterprise architecture, platform integration, product engineering, and application modernization initiatives within a multifaceted federal technology setting.

• Create and uphold technical architecture standards, reference patterns, integration methodologies, and governance frameworks for SaaS, cloud, platform, and application functionalities.

• Direct solution design across various cloud service providers, SaaS platforms, enterprise productivity tools, low-code platforms, APIs, workflow automation, data integrations, and secure access methodologies.

• Facilitate architectural design assessments and technical decision-making forums to guarantee that proposed solutions are secure, scalable, maintainable, and aligned with modernization goals.

• Formulate and govern integration methodologies utilizing APIs, SDKs, webhooks, event streams, serverless functions, workflows, CI/CD pipelines, and automation tools.

• Assist in the implementation of infrastructure-as-code, policy-as-code, configuration-as-code, DNS-as-code, and other automated practices that can be repeated.

• Mentor product development, delivery, and sustainment teams through various phases including requirements definition, solution design, backlog refinement, development, testing, deployment, monitoring, and continuous enhancement.

• Collaborate with cybersecurity teams to ensure that Zero Trust principles, access controls, logging, monitoring, encryption, vulnerability remediation, and compliance mandates are integrated into solution design and execution.

• Work alongside data teams to ensure applications, integrations, and platforms support governed data access, data integrity, analytics, reporting, and AI-driven capabilities.

• Offer technical leadership for platform rationalization, application lifecycle management, performance optimization, technical debt mitigation, and automation initiatives.

• Aid in release planning, change management, technical documentation, implementation strategies, architecture diagrams, runbooks, and knowledge transfer materials.

• Interpret complex technical challenges into straightforward recommendations for client stakeholders, program leadership, product teams, and delivery partners.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree.

• U.S. Citizenship is required due to federal contract stipulations.

• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Federal Public Trust clearance.

• 15+ years of experience in leading enterprise architecture, systems integration, platform engineering, application modernization, or product engineering within complex enterprise environments.

• One active certification in cloud, enterprise architecture, security, or IT service management, such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Google Professional Cloud Architect, TOGAF, CISSP, Security+, ITIL Foundation, or equivalent.

• 8+ years of experience in designing and governing cloud, SaaS, PaaS, or enterprise platform solutions within multi-team delivery frameworks.

• 5+ years of experience supporting federal technology programs or regulated enterprise environments with established security, compliance, or authorization requirements.

• 5+ years of experience leading technical design for application modernization, platform integration, product development, API integration, workflow automation, or DevSecOps delivery.

• 5+ years of experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.

• 5+ years of experience with DevSecOps methodologies, including CI/CD pipelines, version control, automated testing, release management, and environment promotion.

• 3+ years of experience implementing or governing infrastructure-as-code, policy-as-code, configuration-as-code, or similar automated approaches.

• 3+ years of experience with enterprise SaaS or collaboration platforms such as Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, SharePoint, Teams, Slack, GitHub, ServiceNow, Salesforce, Adobe, DocuSign, or similar platforms.

• 3+ years of experience leading architecture reviews, technical governance boards, engineering standards development, or solution design approvals.

• Experience supporting HHS, NIH, FDA, CMS, CDC, or other health-related federal environments.

• Experience in designing SaaS-first or cloud-first enterprise architectures with minimal reliance on custom infrastructure.

• Experience with Zero Trust architecture, identity-aware access, conditional access, TIC 3.0, NIST 800-53, CIS benchmarks, FISMA, or FedRAMP-compliant environments.

• Experience with Microsoft Power Platform, including Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, Dataverse, ALM, environment strategy, and governance.

• Experience with enterprise identity, endpoint management, collaboration platforms, networking, secure access, and platform operations.

• Experience in product management, Agile delivery, backlog governance, release planning, sprint execution, and user-centered product delivery.

• Experience in developing architecture diagrams, technical standards, implementation roadmaps, platform governance models, and modernization playbooks.

• Additional certifications in cloud, security, Agile, ITIL, DevSecOps, Microsoft, AWS, Google Cloud, or enterprise architecture.

🏝️ Benefits

• Health insurance.

• 401(k) matching.

• Professional development opportunities.