Lead Cloud Solutions Architect- Software Architect

ESM • Fort Belvoir, VA

15h • $137,000 - $169,000

About The Position

Enterprise Solutions and Management (ESM) is hiring a Lead Cloud Solutions Architect to support an enterprise-level program in a federal environment. The role provides end-to-end technical architecture, engineering, and deployment leadership for TDMT’s AWS GovCloud hosting environments across Development, Test, and Production. It is responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining secure, scalable, resilient, and mission-ready cloud infrastructure that meets DoD Impact Level 4 (IL4) and Impact Level 5 (IL5) requirements.

The architect establishes and enforces cloud governance standards, ensures compliance with the Secure Cloud Computing Architecture (SCCA), and advances automation, scalability, and continuous operational readiness. The position also ensures alignment with the DoD Cloud Computing Security Requirements Guide (SRG), DISA Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs), and Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) enterprise architecture standards.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or an equivalent technical discipline.
• Active CISSP or CASP+ certification.
• Active AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional certification.
• Eight years of hands-on cloud architecture and engineering experience.
• Demonstrated expertise architecting enterprise solutions in AWS GovCloud, including VPC peering, Direct Connect, IAM role governance, and SCCA Virtual Datacenter Security Stack integration.
• Demonstrated experience designing, architecting, implementing, and managing secure, scalable, and highly available AWS GovCloud environments across Development, Test, and Production.
• Ability to develop cloud architectures supporting DoD mission requirements and IL4 and IL5 workloads.
• Extensive knowledge of DoD cloud security requirements, including the DoD Cloud Computing Security Requirements Guide, DISA STIGs, RMF, and security control implementation.
• Knowledge of cloud security boundaries, IAM, network segmentation, encryption, access controls, and security monitoring in regulated government cloud environments.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as AWS CloudFormation and Terraform, AWS automation services, CI/CD pipelines, automated security controls, auto-scaling, and configuration management.
• Knowledge of AWS monitoring, logging, incident response, disaster recovery, backup strategies, capacity planning, and operational readiness.
• Ability to provide technical leadership, develop architecture standards, evaluate emerging cloud technologies, and align architecture with DLA and DoD standards.
• Top Secret clearance.
• Commuting proximity to Ft Belvoir, Virginia is required.

Nice To Haves

• Positive, self-motivated, proactive approach, with the ability to adapt to change and tolerate stressful situations.
• Effective communication with team members, team leads, management, and government customers.
• Ability and desire to research and develop creative solutions to unique problems with minimal supervision.

Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end technical architecture, engineering, and deployment of TDMT’s AWS GovCloud hosting environments across Development, Test, and Production.
• Design, implement, and maintain secure, scalable, resilient, highly available, and performance-optimized cloud infrastructure for DoD IL4 and IL5 workloads.
• Establish, implement, and enforce cloud governance frameworks and SCCA requirements.
• Ensure cloud infrastructure complies with the DoD Cloud Computing Security Requirements Guide, DISA STIGs, RMF, applicable security and authorization requirements, and DLA enterprise architecture standards.
• Automate cloud infrastructure provisioning, configuration, deployment, and management using Infrastructure as Code and AWS automation services.
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines, automated security controls, auto-scaling, and configuration management.
• Support cloud monitoring, logging, incident response, disaster recovery, backup strategies, capacity planning, and continuous operational readiness.
• Translate business and mission requirements into secure, compliant, and sustainable cloud architecture solutions.
• Provide technical leadership, develop architecture standards, evaluate emerging cloud technologies, and align solutions with DoD policies and organizational IT modernization objectives.

What This Job Offers

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