The Role
Designs and maintains enterprise cloud and hybrid architectures supporting U.S. Air Force missions. Assesses workloads, dependencies, security boundaries, and modernization options; develops migration plans, integration designs, IaC and CI/CD architecture patterns, monitoring strategies, and resilient solutions across classified and unclassified environments. Supports RMF, ATO, cybersecurity integration, technical trade studies, cost analysis, architecture documentation, change control, and Government reviews while guiding engineering teams toward secure, approved deployments.
Summary Generated by Built In
cFocus Software seeks a Cloud Architect to join our program supporting the United States Air Force (USAF). This position is on-site in Linthicum Heights, MD. This position requires an Active TS/SCI clearance.
Qualifications:
Qualifications:
- Active TS/SCI clearance
- B.S. Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field
- Experience designing enterprise cloud and hybrid solutions aligned with mission needs.
- Ability to assess workload dependencies and plan modernization, migration, and integration.
- Knowledge of cloud networking, data integration, access controls, monitoring, and recovery design.
- Knowledge of impact levels, classified environments, authorization boundaries, Zero Trust, and RMF/ATO.
- Understanding of DevSecOps, CI/CD, IaC, CaC, and automated security controls.
- Ability to document architecture and assess technical alternatives, cost, capacity, and risk.
- Strong communication skills for coordinating Government stakeholders and technical teams.
- Develop and maintain DC3 cloud computing strategy in alignment with enterprise IT architecture, enterprise data strategy, mission requirements, and Government priorities.
- Assess existing workloads, infrastructure, interfaces, and dependencies; develop target cloud architectures and phased transition plans for Government review.
- Design integration between cloud and on-premises applications, networks, infrastructure, and data services, including edge computing capabilities supporting global missions.
- Develop designs for multiple impact levels across classified and unclassified environments. Define technical controls and separation consistent with Government-approved security architecture and ATO boundaries.
- Plan Government-approved cross-domain integration and Cybersecurity Service Provider (CSSP) capability integration with cybersecurity and network teams.
- Define architecture patterns for Infrastructure as Code, Configuration as Code, and CI/CD pipelines, including Government-specified security guardrails and consistent configurations across environments.
- Design logging, continuous monitoring, observability, alerting, and performance reporting across cloud resources and authorization boundaries.
- Incorporate resilience, availability, capacity, recovery, and continuity requirements into cloud designs; coordinate operational acceptance and support requirements with engineering and operations teams.
- Assess technical debt and prepare engineering trade studies comparing Refactor, Replatform, Replace, and Retire alternatives, including Total Cost of Ownership models and build/buy recommendations.
- Develop migration plans for high-risk workloads to accredited multi-cloud environments while Government facility security and TEMPEST improvements are performed, as directed.
- Prepare technical design and as-built architecture documentation. Support CADO-IS enterprise architecture documentation and maintain traceability to approved requirements and baselines.
- Coordinate architecture reviews and configuration change control. Guide implementation, integration, and testing; prepare solutions for Government review and authorized deployment.
- Support Risk Management Framework (RMF), Authorization to Operate (ATO), and continuous ATO activities through technical control designs, architecture evidence, and monitoring requirements.
- Define resource tagging and attribution approaches supporting data governance and FinOps; analyze utilization, capacity, and cost allocation to inform cloud investment decisions.
- Evaluate technology options and modernization risks, brief recommendations to Government stakeholders, and guide engineering teams on approved architecture and secure configuration standards.
Skills Required
- Active Top Secret/SCI security clearance
- Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field
- Experience designing enterprise cloud and hybrid solutions aligned with mission needs
- Ability to assess workload dependencies and plan modernization, migration, and integration
- Knowledge of cloud networking, data integration, access controls, monitoring, and recovery design
- Knowledge of impact levels, classified environments, authorization boundaries, Zero Trust, and RMF/ATO
- Understanding of DevSecOps, CI/CD, IaC, CaC, and automated security controls
- Ability to document architecture and assess technical alternatives, cost, capacity, and risk
- Strong communication skills for coordinating Government stakeholders and technical teams
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The Company
What We Do
Established in 2006, cFocus Software automates FedRAMP compliance and develops government chatbots for the Azure Government Cloud, Office 365, and SharePoint. cFocus Software is the exclusive vendor of ATO (Authority To Operate) as a Service™, which automates FedRAMP compliance for the Azure Government Cloud and Office 365. Contact Us for a demo of ATO as a Service™ or a FREE government chatbot proof of concept project today!
