Cloud Architect

Cloud Architect

Location: Sterling, VA office

Type: Hybrid 2 days per week

Client: REI Systems

Visa: GC, USC, H4EAD, H1B (Prefer work permit who can join directly)

Interview: In-person interview (prefer local candidate)

Responsibilities

Seeking an experienced Cloud Architect to lead the design, modernization, and technical evolution of secure, scalable, and highly available cloud solutions supporting mission-critical FDA applications and services. The Cloud Architect will provide technical leadership across cloud architecture, application modernization, DevSecOps, security, infrastructure automation, cloud-native technologies, and emerging AI-enabled capabilities. This individual will work closely with application development, infrastructure, cybersecurity, DevOps, data, and program teams to establish cloud architecture standards and ensure solutions align with FDA mission, security, scalability, reliability, and performance requirements.

The ideal candidate brings deep AWS expertise, strong enterprise architecture experience, and the ability to translate business and technical requirements into practical cloud solutions.

Requirement:

8+ years of experience in cloud engineering, infrastructure, systems architecture, software architecture, or related technical disciplines.

Demonstrated experience designing enterprise-scale cloud solutions.

Strong hands-on experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Strong understanding of AWS networking, compute, storage, identity, security, monitoring, and managed services.

Experience designing cloud-native, microservices, containerized, and distributed architectures.

Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and preferably Amazon EKS.

Experience with Infrastructure as Code technologies such as Terraform or CloudFormation.

Strong understanding of CI/CD and DevSecOps practices.

Experience designing secure cloud networking and IAM architectures.

Understanding of application modernization, APIs, integration, and enterprise application architecture.

Experience with cloud monitoring, observability, logging, and performance-management solutions.

Strong understanding of high availability, disaster recovery, scalability, and resiliency.

Experience working with enterprise cybersecurity and compliance requirements.

Strong analytical, architecture, troubleshooting, documentation, communication, and leadership skills.

Ability to communicate complex technical concepts effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience supporting FDA, HHS, or other Federal Government programs.

Experience architecting solutions in Federal cloud environments.

Knowledge of NIST, FISMA, FedRAMP, Zero Trust, and Federal security frameworks.

AWS certification such as:

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer

AWS Certified Security – Specialty

Experience with Amazon EKS, ECS, Lambda, API Gateway, RDS, S3, CloudFront, Route 53, and related AWS technologies.

Experience with enterprise Kubernetes platforms such as OpenShift.

Experience with API management, event-driven architectures, microservices, and integration platforms.

Experience with FinOps and cloud cost optimization.

Experience with Amazon Bedrock, SageMaker, Generative AI, machine learning platforms, or AI-enabled enterprise solutions.

Knowledge of AIOps and AI-assisted infrastructure or cloud operations.

Experience leading enterprise cloud modernization or migration initiatives.