Lead Cloud Architect

Responsibilities

We are representing a confidential federal technology client seeking a Lead Cloud Architect to join their team. This is a hands-on technical leadership role responsible for the operational reliability and architecture of production systems running in AWS Commercial and AWS GovCloud environments, with components also deployed in Azure and Google Cloud Platform. The primary production workload runs on Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS.

In this position, you will:

• Own the reliability, availability, performance, and operational health of critical infrastructure services and applications, driving continuous improvement throughout their lifecycle
• Lead complex production incidents and service recovery efforts, providing technical direction during high-impact events and driving thorough root-cause analysis and corrective actions
• Define and continuously improve reliability objectives, including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, service health metrics, and operational standards
• Lead observability strategy in partnership with application teams, defining meaningful metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and alerts
• Manage the operational lifecycle of deployed services, including releases, upgrades, patching, configuration changes, capacity management, and maintenance
• Identify and drive the resolution of systemic reliability risks, recurring failure modes, capacity constraints, and technical debt
• Design and lead resilience and recovery initiatives, including failure-mode analysis, performance testing, disaster recovery, and backup strategies
• Develop and advance automation and infrastructure-as-code practices to improve consistency, reliability, and operational efficiency
• Partner with platform engineering and application teams on architecture and design, defining operational and reliability requirements
• Mentor junior cloud architects and establish best practices to advance the organization's reliability engineering maturity

Location: Remote (United States)
Schedule: 8am – 5pm Eastern Standard Time

What We're Looking For

Required Qualifications:

• Must be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain Public Trust level clearance
• Bachelor's Degree and 12 years of experience, or Master's and 10 years of experience, or High School diploma/equivalent and 16 years of experience
• 7+ years hands-on experience in cloud engineering, DevOps, or production systems engineering
• Extensive hands-on experience operating in AWS Commercial and AWS GovCloud, including OpenShift or comparable Kubernetes-based platforms
• Deep infrastructure-as-code experience with Terraform and Ansible/Ansible Tower
• Advanced proficiency with GitLab and Jenkins CI/CD platforms, including reliability gating and deployment automation
• Deep experience in Linux and Windows Server administration
• Substantial practical experience implementing and managing enterprise observability tools such as Dynatrace, Datadog, Splunk, and OpenTelemetry
• Ownership of an SLI/SLO and alerting program, including error budgets, alert rationalization, and noise reduction
• Extensive scripting/automation proficiency in Python, Bash, PowerShell, or Go
• Experience operating in federal or regulated environments (FISMA, FedRAMP, NIST 800-53)

Preferred Qualifications:

• AWS Solutions Architect, AWS DevOps Engineer, or AWS SysOps certification
• Red Hat Certified Specialist in ROSA or Red Hat Certified Advanced System Administrator in OpenShift
• Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Azure DevOps Engineer Expert, GCP Professional Cloud Architect, or GCP Professional Cloud Developer certification
• Dynatrace Associate or Datadog Log Management Fundamentals certification
• GitLab CI/CD Associate certification or Certified Jenkins Engineer (CJE)
• Terraform Authoring and Operations Professional certification

How We Work With You

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Pay

Compensation details will be discussed during the screening process with our recruiting team.

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