Cloud Architect

Fairfax, VA - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 4 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Cloud Architect
Active Secret Preferred
Hybrid-within commutable distance to Northern VA/DCA

Nationwide IT Services NIS is seeking a Cloud Architect for the following potential opportunity:

Lead architecture and design of enterprise cloud solutions emphasizing AWS GovCloud to support classified controlled unclassified and regulated workloads.
Develop high-availability fault-tolerant and secure multi-tier architectures using: AWS GovCloud core services (VPC IAM Lambda S3 CloudFront etc.) Container services including Amazon ECS with Fargate Docker container lifecycle and orchestration patterns Amazon RDS (Oracle).
Script resources in AWS CloudFormation for automated deployment and pipeline integration.
Define application modernization strategies leveraging microservices and containerization.
Incorporate security requirements into architecture (e.g. IAM least privilege encryption at rest/in transit logging/monitoring).
Ensure cloud infrastructure complies with government regulations and frameworks such as: FedRAMP Moderate/High FISMA DoD Cloud Computing Security Requirements Guide (SRG)
Collaborate with security and DevSecOps teams to implement Continuous Security Validation and automated compliance checks.
Translate architecture designs into implementation plans and technical documentation.
Define patterns for service discovery load balancing scaling and resilience within container environments.
Review design artifacts code and technical documentation for quality and best practices.
Implement performance monitoring alerting and operational dashboards.
Conduct periodic architecture reviews to optimize cost and performance.

Preferred Qualifications:

Active Secret Clearance Preferred
Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or Information Systems
8 years of experience in cloud computing and AWS architecture and implementation.
AWS Certification(Solutions Architect Professional AWS DevOps Engineer or equivalent) strongly preferred.
Experience with Kubernetes (EKS) as a complementary platform.

About Nationwide IT Services
NIS is an IT and Management consulting company that is a CVE-verified Service-Disabled Veteran- Owned Small Business. Our mission is to deliver value-added services to our customers leveraging technology people and industry best practices to implement innovative solutions through our trusted employees and team members.

Our benefits package includes medical dental and vision insurance life and disability insurance 401(k) plan with employer match paid holidays PTO (sick/vacation) commuter benefits employee assistance program (EAP) and educational reimbursement along with Pet Insurance.

Nationwide IT Services Inc. provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all qualified applicants regardless of race color religion sex national origin sexual orientation gender identity genetics disability or protected veteran status.

Required Experience:

Senior IC

Cloud ArchitectActive Secret PreferredHybrid-within commutable distance to Northern VA/DCANationwide IT Services NIS is seeking a Cloud Architect for the following potential opportunity:Lead architecture and design of enterprise cloud solutions emphasizing AWS GovCloud to support classified controll...

Cloud Architect
Active Secret Preferred
Hybrid-within commutable distance to Northern VA/DCA

Nationwide IT Services NIS is seeking a Cloud Architect for the following potential opportunity:

Lead architecture and design of enterprise cloud solutions emphasizing AWS GovCloud to support classified controlled unclassified and regulated workloads.
Develop high-availability fault-tolerant and secure multi-tier architectures using: AWS GovCloud core services (VPC IAM Lambda S3 CloudFront etc.) Container services including Amazon ECS with Fargate Docker container lifecycle and orchestration patterns Amazon RDS (Oracle).
Script resources in AWS CloudFormation for automated deployment and pipeline integration.
Define application modernization strategies leveraging microservices and containerization.
Incorporate security requirements into architecture (e.g. IAM least privilege encryption at rest/in transit logging/monitoring).
Ensure cloud infrastructure complies with government regulations and frameworks such as: FedRAMP Moderate/High FISMA DoD Cloud Computing Security Requirements Guide (SRG)
Collaborate with security and DevSecOps teams to implement Continuous Security Validation and automated compliance checks.
Translate architecture designs into implementation plans and technical documentation.
Define patterns for service discovery load balancing scaling and resilience within container environments.
Review design artifacts code and technical documentation for quality and best practices.
Implement performance monitoring alerting and operational dashboards.
Conduct periodic architecture reviews to optimize cost and performance.

Preferred Qualifications:

Active Secret Clearance Preferred
Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or Information Systems
8 years of experience in cloud computing and AWS architecture and implementation.
AWS Certification(Solutions Architect Professional AWS DevOps Engineer or equivalent) strongly preferred.
Experience with Kubernetes (EKS) as a complementary platform.