Senior Cloud Architect, RAAS | Automation Services

What You'll Gain / Impact:

• Opportunity to serve as the senior technical authority on high-complexity cloud transformation and cybersecurity engagements.
• Exposure to a broad range of client environments, including U.S. government, defense, and regulated industries.
• Ability to shape cloud strategy, architecture standards, and security practices that drive lasting organizational change.
• Hands-on experience architecting multi-cloud solutions across Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud in real-world, high-stakes environments.
• Platform to lead, mentor, and develop architects and engineers within a growing, purpose-driven consulting practice.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead client engagements from discovery through delivery, serving as the senior technical consultant and architecture authority.
• Facilitate executive briefings, workshops, and architecture sessions that translate business objectives, risk tolerance, and compliance obligations into actionable cloud strategies.
• Develop current-state and target-state architectures covering applications, infrastructure, identity, networking, security, data protection, observability, resilience, and operations.
• Design secure landing zones and cloud foundations using governance guardrails, account/subscription structures, policy enforcement, centralized logging, network segmentation, and identity-first access controls.
• Architect hybrid and multi-cloud solutions across Microsoft Azure, AWS, and/or Google Cloud, selecting services and patterns appropriate to client requirements and risk.
• Embed cybersecurity into architecture decisions using Zero Trust, least privilege, privileged access management, threat modeling, secure configuration, vulnerability management, encryption, and secrets management.
• Align solutions to compliance frameworks including CMMC, NIST SP 800-171, NIST SP 800-53, FedRAMP, and other client-specific regulatory or contractual requirements.
• Design for regulated workloads including controlled data boundaries, audit evidence, logging, data residency, secure administration, and separation of duties.
• Provide architecture oversight during implementation, reviewing detailed designs, infrastructure-as-code, configurations, security controls, and technical deliverables for quality and conformance.
• Partner with cybersecurity, compliance, engineering, and operations teams to resolve design tradeoffs and ensure solutions are operable, measurable, and audit-ready.
• Evaluate and rationalize cloud services balancing security, compliance, performance, availability, cost, supportability, and time to value.
• Develop roadmaps and migration strategies for application modernization, data migration, identity transformation, and cloud security uplift.
• Create client-ready architecture artifacts including diagrams, decision records, control mappings, implementation plans, risk registers, and executive recommendations.
• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of architects and engineers while contributing to technical reviews, estimation, solution quality, and continuous improvement.
• Support pre-sales and solution development by shaping scopes, assumptions, level-of-effort estimates, and technical approaches for complex opportunities.

Candidate Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, cybersecurity, information systems, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years of progressive technology experience in architecture, engineering, cybersecurity, cloud transformation, or related consulting responsibilities.
• 7+ years of client-facing consulting or architecture experience leading complex technical discussions and delivering tailored solutions for mid-market or enterprise organizations.
• 5+ years of hands-on cloud architecture experience designing and implementing production solutions in Azure, AWS, and/or Google Cloud.
• Demonstrated cybersecurity and compliance experience integrating technical controls and regulatory requirements into cloud architectures and implementation roadmaps.
• Strong architecture communication skills with the ability to explain risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations to executives, security leaders, auditors, engineers, and business stakeholders.
• Working knowledge of architecture and security methods such as well-architected frameworks, threat modeling, shared responsibility, Zero Trust, defense-in-depth, and secure-by-design principles.
• Ability to lead through ambiguity, manage competing requirements, drive decisions, and maintain delivery momentum across multiple stakeholder groups.
• Experience producing high-quality technical documentation including reference architectures, diagrams, standards, decision records, and implementation guidance.

Technical Depth:

Deep expertise in at least three of the following areas, with working knowledge of the others:
Cloud architecture: Azure, AWS, and/or Google Cloud; landing zones; hybrid connectivity; resiliency; disaster recovery; and cloud operating models.
Identity and access: Entra ID and cloud-native IAM; federation; Conditional Access; privileged access; just-in-time administration; workload identities; and secrets management.
Cloud security operations: Microsoft Defender XDR, Microsoft Sentinel, Defender for Cloud, and/or comparable AWS or Google Cloud security services; SIEM/SOAR; detection engineering; and threat hunting.
Data protection: encryption, key management, data classification, DLP, Microsoft Purview or comparable services, retention, and secure data lifecycle controls.
Network security: segmentation, private connectivity, firewalls, secure remote administration, egress control, DNS security, web application protection, and Zero Trust network access.
DevSecOps and automation: infrastructure-as-code, policy-as-code, CI/CD security, configuration management, PowerShell, Python, KQL, APIs, and automated compliance validation.
Governance and compliance: cloud control frameworks, continuous monitoring, evidence generation, risk management, policy development, and remediation planning.

Certifications:

At least one of the following active certifications is required or must be obtained within 90 days of hire:
Cybersecurity and architecture: CISSP, CCSP, or SABSA certification.
Microsoft: AZ-305, AZ-500, or SC-100.
AWS: AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional or AWS Certified Security – Specialty.
Google Cloud: Professional Cloud Architect or Professional Cloud Security Engineer.
Additional cloud, security, networking, DevOps, or compliance certifications are preferred. Active certifications are required for consideration.

Preferred Experience:

• Architecture for U.S. Government or defense-related environments including Azure Government, Microsoft 365 GCC High, AWS GovCloud (US), or comparable regulated cloud platforms.
• Implementing or assessing controls for CMMC, NIST SP 800-171, NIST SP 800-53, FedRAMP, DoD impact levels, or similar frameworks.
• Application and platform modernization including containers, Kubernetes, serverless architectures, APIs, data platforms, and cloud-native integration patterns.
• Cloud financial governance including cost allocation, optimization, forecasting, and architecture decisions informed by FinOps practices.
• Technical leadership in consulting delivery including mentoring, quality assurance, reusable intellectual property, and support for proposals or statements of work.