Senior Cloud Engineer

ICF

Senior Cloud Engineer providing technical leadership across enterprise architecture and product delivery in federal technology services. Transforming business and mission needs into scalable, secure, and supportable solutions.

Posted 5/20/2026full-timeRemote • Virginia • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $144,381 - $245,448 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudDNSITSM

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead enterprise architecture, platform integration, product engineering, and application modernization activities across a complex federal technology environment.
Establish and maintain technical architecture standards, reference patterns, integration approaches, and governance guardrails for SaaS, cloud, platform, and application capabilities.
Guide solution design across cloud service providers, SaaS platforms, enterprise productivity tools, low-code platforms, APIs, workflow automation, data integrations, and secure access patterns.
Lead architectural design reviews and technical decision forums to ensure proposed solutions are secure, scalable, supportable, and aligned with modernization objectives.
Define and govern integration patterns using APIs, SDKs, webhooks, event streams, serverless functions, workflows, CI/CD pipelines, and automation tools.
Support implementation of infrastructure-as-code, policy-as-code, configuration-as-code, DNS-as-code, and other repeatable automation practices.
Guide product development, delivery, and sustainment teams through requirements definition, solution design, backlog refinement, development, testing, deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree
U.S. Citizenship required due to federal contract requirements
Must be able to obtain and maintain a Federal Public Trust clearance
15+ years of experience leading enterprise architecture, systems integration, platform engineering, application modernization, or product engineering in complex enterprise environments
One active cloud, enterprise architecture, security, or IT service management certification, such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Google Professional Cloud Architect, TOGAF, CISSP, Security+, ITIL Foundation, or equivalent.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health insurance
401(k) matching
Flexible work hours
Paid time off
Remote work options

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Hard Skills & Tools

enterprise architectureplatform integrationproduct engineeringapplication modernizationintegration patternsAPIsCI/CD pipelinesinfrastructure-as-codeautomation toolsworkflow automation

Soft Skills

leadershipcommunicationcollaborationproblem-solvingdecision-making

Certifications

AWS Certified Solutions ArchitectMicrosoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect ExpertGoogle Professional Cloud ArchitectTOGAFCISSPSecurity+ITIL Foundation