Cloud Architect

VTG • Beavercreek, OH

2d

About The Position

Join our team as we modernize a multimillion-dollar government data platform and transition it to a secure, scalable, and financially sustainable cost-sharing environment. As the Cloud Architect, you will define the multi-cloud target architecture, establish reusable technical standards, and guide implementation across widely used cloud providers, such as AWS and Azure. You will shape cloud governance, security, resiliency, automation, and FinOps capabilities while partnering with engineering, cybersecurity, and program teams to deliver an enterprise platform that meets mission, compliance, and cost objectives.

Requirements

• U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain a Secret clearance
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field or an equivalent combination of education and professional experience
• Substantial experience in cloud architecture, engineering, or a related technical discipline
• Demonstrated ability to design secure, scalable, and resilient enterprise cloud solutions
• Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure, security, networking, automation, performance, and cost management principles
• Experience developing architecture documentation, technical standards, and modernization roadmaps
• Familiarity with cloud-native platforms, automated delivery practices, and modern application architectures
• Working knowledge of government cybersecurity, compliance, and authorization requirements
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, written, and verbal communication skills
• Ability to present technical recommendations and tradeoffs to technical and non-technical stakeholders

Nice To Haves

• Relevant cloud, architecture, cybersecurity, or technical certification
• Experience supporting multi-cloud or complex enterprise environments
• Experience with cloud governance, financial management, and resource optimization practices
• Experience with modern platform engineering, automation, and cloud-native delivery approaches
• Experience designing or modernizing enterprise applications, data platforms, or shared services
• Experience supporting government, defense, or other regulated environments
• Active security clearance and current industry-recognized security certification
• Strategic and Systems-Oriented: Connects mission objectives, business constraints, security requirements, and technical capabilities into coherent solutions
• Pragmatic Decision-Maker: Evaluates tradeoffs, reduces complexity, and recommends solutions that balance speed, risk, performance, and cost
• Collaborative Technical Leader: Builds alignment among infrastructure, application, data, cybersecurity, and program stakeholders without relying on direct authority
• Clear Communicator: Explains architecture decisions, risks, and recommendations to both engineering teams and senior leaders
• Disciplined and Proactive: Maintains high-quality documentation, anticipates architectural risks, and drives issues to resolution in an agile delivery environment

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the target-state architecture for a secure, scalable, multi-tenant platform spanning AWS and Azure
• Establish reference architectures, design patterns, technology standards, and a phased modernization roadmap aligned with mission and business priorities
• Embed Zero Trust principles and required controls into the architecture; ensure alignment with NIST 800-53, FedRAMP, RMF, STIGs, SCAP, and ATO requirements
• Design for high availability, disaster recovery, observability, scalability, and performance across classified and unclassified environments
• Develop governance guardrails, tagging standards, account and subscription structures, and Technology Business Management practices that improve cost allocation, forecasting, and tenant-level billing transparency
• Guide the design of secure, automated delivery capabilities that support consistent and repeatable platform delivery
• Lead technical design reviews, evaluate tradeoffs, manage architectural risks, and ensure interoperability among cloud services, microservices, data platforms, identity, networking, and cybersecurity capabilities
• Translate complex technical decisions for government and program stakeholders; maintain architecture diagrams, decision records, standards, roadmaps, and engineering guidance; mentor delivery teams on cloud best practices

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior