Cloud Architect, Senior

Job description

Responsibilities We are seeking a highly skilled and innovative Cloud Architect to join our team in the greater DMV area, supporting the Army National Guard. Responsibilities: - Lead design, planning, and modernization of enterprise cloud environments aligned to DoD and Army directives; develop and execute migration, consolidation, and hosting strategies. - Oversee end-to-end engineering lifecycle for cloud-hosted systems: requirements, design, integration, testing, deployment, sustainment, configuration/change control, and decommissioning. - Define system baselines, disaster recovery/continuity strategies, and resiliency architectures across multi‑environment (on‑prem, cloud, hybrid) deployments. - Ensure cloud designs incorporate RMF/ATO requirements, STIG/CSG application, logging/monitoring, IAM/Zero Trust controls, and other cybersecurity/infrastructure controls. - Drive prototyping, proof‑of‑concepts, and performance benchmarking to validate new technologies and measure innovation outcomes against performance criteria. - Produce technical artifacts: architecture diagrams, CONOPS, migration plans, cybersecurity/migration strategies, test plans, and executive decision packages....