Senior Cloud Architect

Position Title: Senior Cloud Architect

Place of Performance:Bethesda, MD (Need from DMV area )Hybrid

Clearance:Public Trust - NIH background investigation required post-award

Duration: Long Term

We need LOE -Letter of Commitment required

Position Summary


The Senior Cloud Architect leads client's AWS cloud strategy and migration program, designing and implementing secure, scalable, cost-optimized AWS architectures to support migration of Client's approximately 400 on-premises application servers while directing DevOps and SecOps engineers in day-to-day cloud operations.

Required Qualifications


REQUIRED AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional (active). Include certificate number and expiration date in resume.


REQUIRED 5+ years AWS cloud architecture experience with federal or regulated industry workload migrations.
• Core AWS services: EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, ECS/EKS, VPC, IAM, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, AWS Config, CodePipeline, CodeDeploy, Systems Manager.
• Infrastructure as Code at production scale - CloudFormation and/or Terraform.
• AWS security design - IAM least-privilege, VPC segmentation, encryption, FISMA Moderate / FedRAMP compliance.
• Container orchestration - Docker, ECS or EKS, container registry management.
• CI/CD integration for cloud deployments - GitLab CI, CodePipeline, or Jenkins.
• Healthcare, finance, or government compliance environment experience.

Preferred Qualifications
• AWS Networking and Security Specialty certification.
• Migration experience for biomedical applications with large structured/unstructured datasets (Oracle, PostgreSQL, MongoDB).
• Ansible for configuration management and provisioning.
• Serverless architecture - Lambda, API Gateway, Step Functions.
• AWS Cost Explorer, Reserved Instances, and Savings Plans optimization experience.