Cloud Solution Architect
- Laurel, MD
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Serve as a cloud strategy and architecture lead, supporting the customer's transition to modernized, cloud-native environments.
- Lead technical exchange meetings and provide expert consultation on cloud migration, transformation planning, and solution optimization.
- Conduct Analysis-of-Alternatives (AoA) to evaluate cloud architectures and implementation strategies for mission-critical applications.
- Develop well-informed cloud adoption roadmaps and architecture artifacts in alignment with enterprise strategy.
- Provide recommendations on cloud services and capabilities based on application-specific needs, security compliance, and cost-efficiency.
- Collaborate with stakeholders, IPTs, and vendors to guide the implementation of secure, scalable, and resilient cloud solutions.
- Bachelor's degree and 12+ years of relevant experience OR an associate's degree and 15 years of relevant experience.
- Demonstrated experience providing technical direction, leading complex IT/cloud architecture projects in enterprise environments and providing cloud strategy for medium to large-scale systems.
- Proven experience advising application/product teams on migrating legacy systems to cloud-based solutions such as AWS, Azure or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
- IAT II certification (DoD 8140 required within 60 days of starting employment. Acceptable certifications include CCNA-Security/CySA+/GICSP/GSEC/Security+ CE/CND/ or SSCP)
- Extensive experience designing and implementing solutions in AWS, demonstrating deep understanding of core AWS services and the Well-Architected Framework
- Design, model, and implement robust data architectures for both cloud and relational repositories, including logical and physical data modeling, database design, administration, tuning, and application development.
- Experience architecting and implementing cloud environments with a focus on high availability, fault tolerance, scalability, and cost optimization.
- Familiarity with DevSecOps, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and automation frameworks is a plus.
- Experience with architecting, implementing, and optimizing cloud-based solutions using Amazon Web Services (AWS), adhering to the AWS Well-Architected Framework, including VPC, routing, subnets, Security Groups, ELB, Auto-Scaling, RDS, Route 53, S3, CloudFront, SNS, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, GuardDuty, and Inspector.
- Must possess a current/active TS/SCI with Polygraph.
- Must be able to remain in a stationary position 50% of the time.
- Occasionally moves about inside the office to access file cabinets, office machinery, or to communicate with co-workers, management, and customers, via email, phone, and/or virtual communication, which may involve delivering presentations.