Lead Cloud Architect

C5MI is not your typical consulting firm. We are a high-performance team of SAP and supply chain experts who solve complex, mission critical challenges for organizations that cannot afford failure.

We hire consultants who thrive in complexity, move fast, take ownership, and deliver under pressure. At C5MI, you will not be siloed or stuck in theory. You will be hands on, client facing, and directly influencing outcomes that matter.

Our culture rewards initiative, accountability, and continuous growth. This is a place where your expertise is valued, your work is meaningful, and your performance truly matters. If you're energized by learning through real-world challenges, collaborating with top-tier talent, and expanding your capabilities every day, C5MI is where strong consultants level up.

Note:

This position is contingent upon contract award.

• Owns the end-to-end cloud and infrastructure architecture for the program, including the accredited hosting environment, network topology, connectivity and boundary approach, and integration to the customer’s enterprise cloud environment.
• Leads and develops the cloud and platform engineering team; allocates work, manages delivery quality, and owns team performance, staffing, and capability development.
• Designs the environment landscape supporting development, test, staging, training, and production, including sizing, refresh strategy, and capacity planning for concurrent process area delivery.
• Ensures the hosting posture meets applicable federal cloud security requirements, including FedRAMP authorization levels and DoD Cloud Computing Security Requirements Guide impact levels.
• Partners with risk management framework and security personnel to produce authorization artifacts, support control implementation and assessment, maintain the plan of action and milestones, and sustain the authority to operate through change.
• Defines and enforces infrastructure hardening standards, including security technical implementation guide compliance, baseline configuration management, vulnerability scanning, and patch management.
• Designs the identity, credential, and access management integration approach, including federation, multifactor authentication, and privileged access management for platform administration.
• Establishes infrastructure-as-code, automation, and configuration management practices to ensure environments are reproducible, auditable, and consistently configured.
• Designs the resilience, backup, high availability, and disaster recovery architecture, including operation and synchronization under denied, degraded, intermittent, and limited-bandwidth conditions.
• Defines the containerization, orchestration, and portability approach for extensibility and integration services, ensuring compliance with container hardening standards.
• Owns platform monitoring, logging, and observability architecture, including audit log retention and protection sufficient to support financial audit and inspector general examination.
• Present and defend the hosting and infrastructure architecture at program milestone gate reviews and in government security and architecture working groups.
• Advises program leadership on hosting cost drivers, licensing and consumption models, and the technical and schedule implications of hosting decisions.
• Ability to travel up to 50% to client sites, varying based on client program schedules.
• Adheres to all certified processes as part of our commitment to maintaining the highest standards of quality and information security, which includes actively participating in quality assurance activities and ensuring the protection of sensitive information in accordance with our security policies.
• Performs other related tasks as…