Principal Cloud Architect

M9 Solutions

Principal Cloud Architect focusing on secure cloud architecture for government contract. Collaborating with engineering teams and providing technical leadership.

Posted 4/30/2026full-timeRemote • District of Columbia, Washington • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $60,000 - $180,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AnsibleCloudTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead the architecture and design of secure, scalable cloud environments supporting enterprise workloads.
Develop reference architectures and engineering standards for cloud infrastructure deployments.
Collaborate with engineering teams to implement infrastructure automation and deployment frameworks.
Guide modernization efforts involving legacy infrastructure migration to cloud environments.
Provide architectural oversight across networking, identity management, and security controls.
Ensure cloud solutions align with federal security frameworks and best practices.
Participate in technical strategy discussions with program leadership and customer stakeholders.
Review engineering designs to ensure performance, resiliency, and operational readiness.
Provide mentorship and technical leadership to cloud engineers and systems engineers.
Support proposal development, technical planning, and architecture documentation as required.
Lead design and implementation of OCI environments using a mature Infrastructure-as-Code platform.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Active Secret Clearance.
12+ years of experience in enterprise IT infrastructure or cloud engineering.
5+ years of experience designing large-scale cloud architectures.
Strong experience with cloud networking, security architecture, and infrastructure design.
Demonstrated experience leading architecture efforts for complex enterprise environments.
Strong understanding of cloud security principles and federal compliance environments.
Experience designing resilient, scalable, and secure cloud infrastructure platforms.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Strong expertise in Terraform and Terragrunt for infrastructure provisioning and orchestration, along with Ansible for configuration management automation.
Periodic travel to customer locations.

Benefits

Comp & perks

M9 Benefits - https://m9solutions.com/why-join-m9/#our-benefits

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Hard Skills & Tools

cloud architecturecloud engineeringinfrastructure automationinfrastructure designcloud networkingsecurity architectureInfrastructure-as-CodeTerraformTerragruntAnsible

Soft Skills

mentorshiptechnical leadershipcommunication

Certifications

Active Secret Clearance