Cloud Architect – Services (REMOTE)

Koniag Data Solutions LLC a Koniag Government Services company is seeking a Cloud Architect Services to support KDS and our government customer. The position is remote. This position requires the candidate to be able to obtain a Public offer competitive compensation and an extraordinary benefits package including health dental and vision insurance 401K with company matching flexible spending accounts paid holidays three weeks paid time off and Data Solutions LLC (KDS) a Koniag Government Services company is seeking an experienced Cloud Architect (Services) to support the design development and modernization of scalable secure and efficient cloud services for the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services component. The ideal candidate is a strategic collaborative cloud professional who can translate mission and security requirements into practical cloud architectures automation and service-improvement initiatives. The Cloud Architect (Services) will perform a key technical role supporting ACF cloud modernization cybersecurity operational resilience and mission delivery. Principal responsibilities include but are not limited to:Design and architect end-to-end cloud-service and infrastructure solutions that meet performance scalability security resilience interoperability and cost-efficiency and enforce cloud architecture standards patterns governance practices and technical reference architectures across program the evaluation selection and implementation of cloud services platforms and technologies that support mission-critical objectives and program with engineering development security and operations teams to integrate cloud solutions with existing systems workflows and enterprise and maintain cloud architecture documentation including architecture diagrams technical specifications service designs reference architectures and decision continuous ATO and automated ATO processes by designing cloud-service patterns automation integrations and evidence-producing controls that support ongoing authorization and and support ingestion normalization and use of compliance data from FedRAMP StateRAMP SOC 2 and other approved sources within cloud-security assessment and authorization or contribute to Security Assessment Verification and Validation Plans that define objectives scope dependencies control-validation approaches and implementation and implement cloud architectures that enable AI-driven analytics and automation where approved to improve threat detection operational response and service or support Continuity of Operations (COOP) disaster recovery and business-continuity planning; design and evaluate cloud solutions that sustain mission and business processes during and after in Red Team/Blue Team exercises by ensuring cloud-service architectures support controlled testing monitoring analysis remediation and lessons strategy planning and process-improvement activities for the Enterprise Security Operations Center (ESOC) including current-state assessment future-state architecture service-roadmap development and operational improvement cloud-readiness assessments and lead migration planning for on-premises and legacy systems transitioning to cloud and optimize cloud infrastructure for performance reliability and cost; implement automation and IaC solutions where cloud environments adhere to federal security and compliance requirements including FedRAMP NIST SP 800-53 FISMA and other applicable technical leadership and mentorship to engineers and cloud practitioners; communicate architecture decisions and tradeoffs to stakeholders system analysts and business within an Agile delivery environment while satisfying project stage gates delivery milestones and documentation emerging cloud technologies and recommend adoption strategies that improve cloud capabilities security posture and modernization and Experience:Required:Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Technology Computer Information Systems or a related field from an accredited college or university.8 years of experience in IT infrastructure cloud computing or related fields with at least 5 years in a cloud architecture experience designing and implementing solutions on one or more major cloud platforms: AWS Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud with cloud-migration strategies including lift-and-shift re-platforming and re-architecting :Masters degree in Computer Science Information Technology or a related supporting federal government or Department of Defense (DoD) IT Skills and CompetenciesExceptional written and oral communication skills in English with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts effectively to technical and non-technical expertise in cloud-platform services including compute storage networking databases security observability and DevOps tooling across AWS Azure and/or in IaC tools such as Terraform AWS CloudFormation Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates or equivalent understanding of cloud-networking concepts including VPCs VPNs load balancing DNS CDN and hybrid-connectivity designing and implementing cloud-security architectures including IAM encryption secure logging policy enforcement and Zero Trust of containerization and orchestration technologies including Docker and with CI/CD pipeline design and DevSecOps with cloud monitoring logging and observability tools such as AWS CloudWatch Azure Monitor Splunk Datadog or equivalent knowledge of cATO/automated ATO concepts continuous monitoring security-evidence automation and compliance-data working within compliance frameworks such as FedRAMP NIST SP 800-53 FISMA and SOC of business-continuity disaster-recovery and COOP principles as applied to cloud understanding of cost management and FinOps principles for cloud to provide technical leadership and guidance in a collaborative Agile delivery Requirement:Ability to obtain a Public Trust ClearanceDesired Skills and Competencies:Active AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert or Google Professional Cloud Architect working in a federal government IT of serverless computing architectures and event-driven design with microservices architecture and API gateway with data architecture concepts including data lakes data warehousing and big-data processing with cloud-native security tools and services such as AWS Security Hub or Microsoft Defender for developing or supporting Security Assessment Verification and Validation Plans authorization artifacts SSPs or continuous-monitoring supporting security operations strategy service improvement or ESOC/SOC modernization participating in Red Team/Blue Team exercises or managing cloud remediation from security-test cloud certifications such as AWS Certified DevOps Engineer CompTIA Cloud or Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP).Our Equal Employment Opportunity PolicyThe company is an equal opportunity employer. The company shall not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race color religion creed ethnicity sex sexual orientation gender or gender identity (except where gender is a bona fide occupational qualification) national origin or ancestry age disability citizenship military/veteran status marital status genetic information or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal state or local law. We are committed to equal employment opportunity in all decisions related to employment promotion wages benefits and all other privileges terms and conditions of company is dedicated to seeking all qualified applicants. 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