
Cloud Architect
T-Rex Solutions, LLC
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $125,000 - $175,000 per year
About the role
- Lead cloud architecture design for JOMIS platforms and systems, including reference architecture, landing zone standards, environment design, and network segmentation
- Define cloud hosting and connectivity approaches that support operational medicine systems, enterprise users, integrations, and deployed environments
- Document, propose, and pressure test solution design options for cloud hosting and optimization solution designs including clear tradeoffs, recommended course(s) of action, and decisions to be made
- Drive reliability and performance practices, including scalability planning, resiliency patterns, disaster recovery strategies, and uptime targets
- Support modernization efforts by contributing to legacy system migration planning, transition architectures, and phased implementation roadmaps
- Partner with cybersecurity teams to ensure architectures align with Zero Trust principles, identity-based access, encryption, auditing, and continuous monitoring requirements
- Establish and maintain cloud governance practices, including architecture review processes, technical standards, and reusable patterns across teams and vendors
- Guide DevSecOps platform architecture, including CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, automated compliance evidence, and environment promotion strategies
- Provide clear and concise briefings to government and BCG leadership on cloud architecture decisions, risks, tradeoffs, and delivery impacts, along with a perspective on recommended course(s) of action
- Develop and maintain architecture documentation, including system context diagrams, deployment views, interface mappings, and DoDAF-aligned artifacts when required
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- Eight or more years of experience in cloud architecture, platform engineering, or enterprise infrastructure roles
- Demonstrated experience designing secure cloud or hybrid environments in regulated or compliance-driven organizations
- Demonstrated experience modernizing legacy and monolithic architectures into cloud-native or microservices-based architectures (containers, managed services, event-driven patterns as appropriate)
- Experience developing cloud migration strategies and executable plans (discovery, dependency mapping, landing zone readiness, wave planning, cutover/rollback, validation, and decommissioning)
- Strong understanding of networking, identity and access management, secrets management, logging, monitoring, and incident response integration
- Hands-on experience with DevSecOps concepts, automation, infrastructure as code, and CI/CD pipelines
- Familiarity with DoD system development lifecycle practices and architecture frameworks such as DoDAF
- Ability to produce clear technical documentation and communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Hands-on architecture experience with at least one hyperscale cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
- Experience working in Agile delivery environments
- U.S. citizenship required
Benefits
- PTO available to use immediately upon joining (prorated based on start date)
- paid parental leave
- individual and family health, vision, and dental benefits
- annual budget for training, professional development and tuition reimbursement
- 401(k) plan with company match fully vested after 60 days of employment
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
cloud architectureplatform engineeringenterprise infrastructurecloud migration strategiesDevSecOpsinfrastructure as codeCI/CD pipelinesnetworkingidentity and access managementcloud-native architectures
Soft skills
communicationtechnical documentationleadershipcollaborationproblem-solvinganalytical thinkingstakeholder engagementdecision-makingbriefingadaptability