Key Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Lead the architecture and design of secure cloud solutions supporting Department of Defense and federal mission systems.
• Develop cloud architectures supporting Amazon Web Services (AWS) GovCloud and hybrid cloud environments while ensuring alignment with mission, security, and operational requirements.
• Provide technical leadership during solution design, architecture reviews, technical interchange meetings, and customer working groups.
• Design highly available, fault-tolerant, and resilient cloud infrastructures supporting mission-critical applications and distributed operations.
• Develop Disaster Recovery (DR), Continuity of Operations (COOP), backup, and high-availability architectures to support mission resilience and recovery objectives.
• Define cloud networking architectures, identity and access management strategies, security boundaries, connectivity solutions, and infrastructure patterns for government environments.
• Collaborate with cybersecurity teams to ensure cloud solutions support RMF requirements, Zero Trust principles, and applicable government security policies.
• Develop and deliver architecture documentation including solution architectures, reference architectures, network diagrams, infrastructure designs, implementation roadmaps, and migration strategies.
• Support IL5 and IL6 cloud accreditation efforts by developing architecture documentation and providing technical artifacts required for authorization packages and accreditation activities.
• Coordinate the transition and hand-off of accreditation artifacts, architecture documentation, security configurations, and engineering products to Information System Security Engineers (ISSEs), Information System Security Managers (ISSMs), and government cybersecurity organizations.
• Collaborate with DevSecOps, infrastructure, software engineering, and systems engineering teams to ensure cloud architectures are effectively implemented and maintained.
• Evaluate emerging cloud technologies, services, and architectural patterns to improve scalability, security, performance, and operational efficiency.
• Identify technical risks, architectural gaps, and integration challenges while recommending mitigation strategies and modernization opportunities.
• Support executive briefings, architecture reviews, proposal activities, and customer engagements.

• Active Secret security clearance.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related technical discipline. Equivalent experience may be considered.
• Minimum ten (10) years of experience designing and implementing enterprise cloud solutions supporting Department of Defense, Intelligence Community, or federal government environments.
• Minimum five (5) years of experience designing solutions within AWS GovCloud or comparable government cloud environments.
• Demonstrated experience designing hybrid cloud architectures integrating cloud services with on-premises infrastructure.
• Experience supporting Impact Level 5 (IL5) and/or Impact Level 6 (IL6) cloud environments and associated accreditation activities.
• Experience developing cloud architecture documentation supporting RMF authorization packages and government accreditation requirements.
• Experience designing Disaster Recovery (DR), high availability, business continuity, backup, and resilient cloud architectures.
• Strong understanding of AWS networking, VPC design, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, Route 53, Identity and Access Management (IAM), storage services, compute services, and security services.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or similar automation frameworks.
• Strong understanding of cloud security architecture, Zero Trust, RMF, NIST guidance, encryption, identity management, and secure cloud design principles.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts to engineers, program leadership, and government stakeholders.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite, including Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Project, and Outlook.
• Ability to travel approximately 25% to support customer locations, architecture reviews, mission partner engagements, and operational activities.

• Top Secret or TS/SCI highly preferred.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional.
• AWS Certified Security – Specialty.
• Experience supporting Department of Defense Cloud Computing Security Requirements Guide (SRG) environments.
• Experience supporting IL5 and IL6 Authorization to Operate (ATO) packages, accreditation artifact development, and RMF implementation.
• Experience designing cloud-native architectures using Kubernetes, Amazon EKS, Docker, and containerized applications.
• Experience supporting DevSecOps pipelines, CI/CD automation, GitLab, GitHub Enterprise, or Platform One.
• Experience with multi-account AWS organizations, landing zones, and enterprise cloud governance.
• Familiarity with Cross Domain Solutions (CDS), classified cloud environments, and hybrid mission architectures.
• Experience supporting space systems, mission operations centers, satellite communications, or enterprise command and control environments.
• Knowledge of Digital Engineering, infrastructure observability, cloud monitoring, and enterprise logging solutions.
• AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty or comparable cloud networking certification.
• Security+, CISSP, CCSP, or other DoD 8140-compliant cybersecurity certification.