Cloud Architect

Peraton Overview Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace.

The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can’t be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit  to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.

Responsibilities Peraton is seeking an experienced Cloud Architect to support a large infrastructure program with a large state government customer.  In this role, you will provide dedicated cloud and enterprise architecture expertise, leading architecture services and delivering business solutions that enable the state government and its customers to modernize, migrate, and optimize their IT environments across multiple public cloud platforms.

This position will provide support in the following location(s):
Richmond, VA (candidate must be able to commute to Richmond or be located in the area).

Key Responsibilities Lead enterprise architecture services in support of state customer initiatives, ensuring alignment with the state government customer's IT standards, policies, and strategic objectives.

Provide Business Solutions Management (BSM) to assess, plan, and execute application migrations to public cloud platforms, including:

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
Develop and maintain enterprise architecture artifacts, including reference architectures, roadmaps, standards, and patterns to guide cloud adoption and modernization efforts.

Serve as a trusted technical advisor to customer stakeholders and agencies, translating business requirements into scalable, secure, and cost-effective cloud and enterprise architecture solutions.

Evaluate existing on-premises and hybrid environments and develop migration strategies, including lift-and-shift, re-platforming, and re-architecting approaches.

Respond to and resolve state customer service requests related to cloud and enterprise architecture, providing timely and actionable technical guidance.

Collaborate with cross-functional teams including security, networking, application development, and operations to ensure end-to-end solution integrity.

Support proposal development activities, including contributing to technical volumes, solution narratives, staffing plans, and architecture diagrams.

Ensure cloud solutions adhere to state security frameworks (e.g., FedRAMP, NIST, state security standards).Identify opportunities for innovation, cost optimization, and service improvement across the customer’s enterprise IT portfolio
** Position is part of a proposal opportunity
** Qualifications

Required Qualifications
12 years of experience, may have supervisory or management experience
10+ years of experience in IT architecture, with at least 5 years focused on cloud and enterprise architecture.

Demonstrated experience architecting and migrating solutions across two or more of the following platforms: AWS, GCP, Oracle Cloud.

Strong knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks such as TOGAF, Zachman, or equivalent.

Experience supporting state or federal government IT programs, preferably within a managed services or large-scale IT contract environment.

Proficiency in cloud-native design patterns,…