Senior Principal Cloud Architect
$122,000–$253,000 year
On-siteSterling, Virginia, United States or Annapolis Junction, Maryland, United States
Job Summary
Lead the design and architecture of a consolidated, maintainable cloud development environment in AWS GovCloud aligned with program and mission requirements. Plan and execute the migration of separate development networks into a single, unified environment while developing automation frameworks and infrastructure-as-code templates to streamline provisioning. Provide systems engineering project leadership by interfacing directly with customers and stakeholders to derive migration specifications, implement security controls for classified environments, and support risk assessments. Collaborate with DevOps engineers to enhance CI/CD pipelines, conduct architecture reviews, and evaluate new cloud services to improve operational capabilities.
Required Qualifications
- U.S. Citizenship
- Active TS/SCI clearance
- 8+ years of directly relevant experience
- 5+ years of experience designing cloud architectures, preferably on AWS
- Strong expertise in AWS services including EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, Lambda, and CloudFormation
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, etc.)
- Deep understanding of cloud security best practices and compliance requirements
- Proven ability to design scalable, resilient, and cost-effective solutions
- Demonstrated experience leading migration and consolidation of multiple networks or environments
- Proven leadership skills and meaningful experience successfully leading teams
- Experience working in an Agile development environment
- Strong documentation and technical communication skills
- Experience with automation and scripting (Python, Bash, PowerShell)
- Working networking knowledge — network infrastructure, protocols, TLS encryption, and VPC firewall management
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Systems Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field
- High School diploma with 10+ years of directly relevant experience
Desired Qualifications
- Prior experience working in AWS GovCloud environments
- Experience designing solutions for cybersecurity or incident response operations
- Knowledge of multi-cloud or hybrid cloud architectures
- Experience with container orchestration (Kubernetes, ECS)
- Experience and familiarity with the Risk Management Framework (RMF) and security and privacy controls (NIST 800-37 and NIST 800-53)
- Background in systems engineering, system administration, or DevOps
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and automation
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
- AWS Cloud-related certifications
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