Cloud Architect

Overview

REI Systems’ mission is to deliver reliable, innovative technology solutions that advance Federal clients' missions and exceed their expectations. Our technologists and consultants are passionate about solving complex challenges that impact millions of lives. We take a Mindful Modernization® approach in delivering our services, including application modernization, grants management, case management systems, government data analytics, and advisory services. This approach, the REI Way, ensures mission impact by aligning our clients' strategic objectives with measurable outcomes through people, processes, and technology.

We offer the same commitment to our employees by providing professional development, meaningful projects, and flexibility to spend time with family and friends. We believe employees are at their best when fulfilled in both their professional careers and their personal lives. Learn more at  voted REI Systems a Washington Post Top Workplace in 2015, 2016, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025!

REI Systems is seeking an experienced Cloud Architect to lead the design, modernization, and technical evolution of secure, scalable, and highly available cloud solutions supporting mission-critical FDA applications and services.

The Cloud Architect will provide technical leadership across cloud architecture, application modernization, Dev Sec Ops , security, infrastructure automation, cloud-native technologies, and emerging AI-enabled capabilities. This individual will work closely with application development, infrastructure, cybersecurity, Dev Ops, data, and program teams to establish cloud architecture standards and ensure solutions align with FDA mission, security, scalability, reliability, and performance requirements.

The ideal candidate brings deep AWS expertise, strong enterprise architecture experience, and the ability to translate business and technical requirements into practical cloud solutions.

• Lead the design and implementation of secure, scalable, resilient, and cost-effective cloud architectures supporting enterprise FDA applications.
• Define target-state cloud architectures, modernization roadmaps, architecture patterns, and technical standards.
• Evaluate existing systems and recommend cloud modernization, migration, re-platforming, refactoring, or cloud-native transformation strategies.
• Design solutions across compute, storage, networking, identity and access management, databases, integration, containers, serverless technologies, and managed cloud services.
• Ensure architecture decisions support high availability, scalability, disaster recovery, performance, security, and operational resilience.
• Develop architecture diagrams, solution designs, technical documentation, standards, and reusable reference architectures.

• Architect enterprise solutions using AWS services and cloud-native technologies
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• Design solutions using services such as EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, ECS/EKS, API Gateway, Cloud Front, Route 53, IAM, Cloud Watch, and related AWS capabilities.
• Architect containerized and microservices-based platforms using technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Design secure cloud networking architectures including VPCs, subnets, routing, load balancing, private connectivity, DNS, and security controls.
• Establish patterns for highly available and fault-tolerant cloud applications.
• Support hybrid-cloud and multi-environment architectures across development, testing, staging, and production.

• Partner with application teams to modernize legacy and enterprise systems for cloud-native deployment.
• Define architectural patterns for microservices, APIs, event-driven architectures, containerization, and serverless solutions.
• Assess application dependencies, performance requirements, security needs, and technical constraints as part of modernization initiatives.
• Provide guidance on application decomposition, platform selection, and migration strategies.
• Ensure modernization efforts balance technical innovation, operational supportability, security, and cost.

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