Senior Multi-Cloud Architect

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

📋 Description

• Deliver hands-on technical leadership for secure, resilient, and cost-effective applications and cloud services that support CMS Medicare, Medicaid, and Marketplace applications.

• Convert mission, security, and operational requirements into actionable architectures and guide their adoption with application and platform teams.

• Take ownership of the quality of assigned architectural deliverables and recommendations within the program governance framework.

• Collaborate with CMS Application Development Organizations, CMS Hybrid Cloud product teams, and Enterprise Shared Service teams.

• Evaluate current-state architectures and establish target-state designs, transition roadmaps, architecture decision records, and reusable reference patterns.

• Conduct design reviews and document trade-offs, dependencies, risks, and exceptions.

• Choose cloud services and determine workload placement across AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and OCI.

• Design hybrid and cross-cloud integration, identity management, networking, and shared services.

• Translate application needs into prioritized modernization plans with clear ownership and acceptance criteria.

• Coordinate implementation efforts across cloud, application, security, testing, and operations teams.

• Develop and review reusable infrastructure-as-code modules, automation, and reference implementations.

• Define secure CI/CD patterns that include automated testing, policy checks, artifact controls, and rollback mechanisms.

• Validate critical designs through prototypes and production delivery.

• Incorporate least privilege, identity federation, segmentation, encryption, secrets management, and auditability into designs.

• Collaborate with security stakeholders on FISMA, NIST SP 800-53, CMS ARS, and FedRAMP compliance requirements.

• Establish service-level objectives along with recovery time and recovery point objectives.

• Design observability, failure isolation, backup, recovery, and safe change practices.

• Confirm resilience through testing and operational-readiness reviews.

• Assess total cost of ownership, utilization, performance, and lifecycle risks.

• Prioritize remediation, upgrades, technical-debt reduction, and cost optimization initiatives.

• Mentor engineers and provide technical direction across various vendors and teams.

• Lead complex troubleshooting efforts and post-incident improvements.

• Create documentation, runbooks, and support transitions to ensure sustainable operations and accountability.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree with 12 or more years of relevant experience, or a master's degree with 10 or more years of relevant experience.

• Additional years of experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.

• Must be able to obtain and maintain a favorable Public Trust determination.

• Must have resided in the United States for at least three of the past five years.

• Proven experience in production cloud architecture ownership from requirements gathering and design through implementation and operational validation.

• Extensive production architecture and implementation experience with at least two of AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, with the capability to evaluate trade-offs among all three.

• Proficient in designing hybrid/cloud networking, identity and access management, compute, storage and data services, integration, resilience, and observability.

• Hands-on experience with production-quality infrastructure as code using Terraform or a similar tool.

• Experience with engineering Kubernetes and managed container platforms.

• Background in implementing secure CI/CD practices.

• Proficient in at least one general-purpose programming language as well as shell scripting.

• Experience in designing or modernizing systems regulated by FISMA.

• Familiar with NIST SP 800-53, shared responsibility, and cloud authorization boundaries.

• Proven experience in validating recovery and performance, diagnosing complex production failures, and making quantified trade-offs related to cost, reliability, security, and maintainability.

• Ability to work independently, make design decisions across organizational boundaries, mentor engineers, and resolve technical disagreements.

• Skilled at documenting architectures and effectively communicating options, risks, recommendations, and outcomes to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• OCI experience is preferred.

• Experience with CMS Hybrid Cloud, CMS Enterprise Shared Services, CMS Acceptable Risk Safeguards (ARS), and application onboarding or modernization within CMS is preferred.

• Relevant advanced certifications in cloud architecture, DevOps, or security are preferred.

🏝️ Benefits

• Camera-on interview with an interviewer photo taken for identification purposes if an offer letter is extended.