Cloud Architect
Core
Provide senior technical leadership for the architecture, migration, and modernization of enterprise applications within secure AWS environments, translating complex federal mission requirements into resilient, scalable, and cost-effective cloud solutions.
Role type
Senior IC Cloud Architect (AWS, Federal)
Builds
Enterprise-level, n-tier, and service-oriented architectures integrating multiple COTS products across compute, storage, networking, identity, data, and security services.
Domain
Federal government / Cloud infrastructure / Security compliance
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
AWS Solutions Architect (Professional), n-tier architecture design, COTS product integration, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/CloudFormation), CI/CD implementation, federal security frameworks (NIST 800-53, RMF, FedRAMP), microservices architecture, disaster recovery planning, technical mentorship
Preferred skills
Experience with rehosting, replatforming, and refactoring legacy workloads, evaluation of emerging AWS services, Authority to Operate (ATO) support
Technologies
AWS (EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, RDS, Lambda, CloudFormation, CloudWatch), Terraform, CI/CD tooling
Responsibilities
Design and document enterprise-level architectures focusing on interoperability and scalability; Lead implementation of secure AWS solutions; Develop cloud migration and modernization strategies; Define reusable reference architectures and technical standards; Architect solutions for high availability and cost optimization; Implement IaC and automated deployments; Integrate security and compliance requirements into delivery; Support ATO activities; Collaborate with government stakeholders to align solutions with mission objectives; Provide technical leadership and conduct design reviews.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities
