Cloud Solutions Architect, Senior

Requires US Citizenship Yes
Employment Term and Type:
Regular, Full Time
Required Security Clearance: (Minimum for hire) TS/SCI
Required

Education:

(Minimum for hire) Master's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related technical discipline; additional relevant experience may be considered in lieu of education when permitted by applicable contract requirements.
Salary Band: $185,000 to $200,000

FGS, LLC is seeking a Cloud Solutions Architect to lead the design and integration of secure, scalable cloud and hybrid-cloud solutions supporting enterprise mission requirements for the Office of Naval Intelligence in Suitland, Maryland. The selected candidate will translate mission and technical requirements into target architectures, roadmaps, standards, implementation patterns, and actionable migration plans.

The Cloud Solutions Architect will provide technical leadership across cloud platforms, applications, data services, identity services, cybersecurity capabilities, and enterprise networks. The role will guide architecture decisions from concept through implementation, lead technical trade studies and reviews, and validate that delivered solutions satisfy performance, resiliency, security, interoperability, and operational requirements.

• Develop and maintain target cloud and hybrid-cloud architectures, transition roadmaps, reference designs, standards, and reusable implementation patterns.
• Translate Government mission needs, operational constraints, and technical requirements into secure, scalable, supportable cloud-solution designs.
• Define interfaces and integration patterns among cloud platforms, enterprise networks, applications, data services, identity services, security services, and external systems.
• Lead workload discovery, application and data assessments, disposition analysis, dependency mapping, and cloud-migration planning.
• Evaluate public, private, hybrid, and multi-cloud alternatives and recommend appropriate IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, container, and managed-service solutions.
• Conduct architecture analyses, technical trade studies, proofs of concept, and design reviews; document assumptions, constraints, risks, costs, and recommendations.
• Design for availability, performance, scalability, resiliency, backup, recovery, continuity of operations, monitoring, and operational supportability.
• Coordinate cloud networking, segmentation, routing, connectivity, name services, load balancing, and secure access with network and cybersecurity teams.
• Integrate identity, credential, access-management, encryption, logging, monitoring, vulnerability-management, and Zero Trust requirements into solution architectures.
• Define architecture approaches for Infrastructure as Code, configuration management, CI/CD, Dev Sec Ops , containers, orchestration, and policy automation.
• Develop and maintain architecture diagrams, interface-control documents, technical specifications, decision records, implementation plans, and migration playbooks.
• Provide technical direction and design guidance to cloud engineers, systems engineers, developers, data specialists, network engineers, and cybersecurity personnel.
• Review implementation artifacts and delivered capabilities for conformance with approved architectures, standards, security requirements, and technical baselines.
• Support program planning, estimates, schedules, risk management, technical briefings, acquisition activities, and contractual deliverables.
• Brief Government and program leadership on architecture status, alternatives, technical risks, dependencies, and recommended decisions.

• U.S. Citizenship.
• Active TS/SCI security clearance at the time of hire.
• Minimum eight years of relevant architecture or engineering experience.
• At least five years supporting complex Government network or cloud environments.
• Demonstrated experience with enterprise integration, interface design, and cloud or hybrid-cloud architecture.
• Experience developing target architectures, technical roadmaps, reference designs, standards, and implementation guidance.
• Experience conducting workload assessments, migration planning, technical trade studies, architecture reviews, and implementation validation.
• Strong knowledge of cloud service models, distributed-system design, networking, identity, cybersecurity, data integration, resiliency, and operations.
• Current professional-level technical certification relevant to cloud architecture, enterprise…