Senior Cloud Architect
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Job Location:
Redstone Arsenal, AL - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
3 days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Torch Technologies
Thank you for your interest in employment with Torch Technologies. We are a 100% employee-owned Certified Great Place To Work and named Best Places to Work in Huntsville/Madison County headquartered in Huntsville AL with over 1200 employee-owners. Our team provides superior research development and engineering services to the Federal Government and Department of Defense. As one of the nations top 100 defense companies the services we provide directly support the men and women who serve our country. Our corporate mission sums up the pride our employee-owners take in the work we do: Lighting the Pathway of Freedom. And as a Certified Evergreen ESOP we have made the commitment to grow and sustain our company for the next 100 years! Come grow with us!
Torch Technologies is seeking a skilled Senior Cloud Architect to design implement and support cloud infrastructure and related services. This role requires expertise in cloud provisioning deployment troubleshooting and performance optimization to ensure secure compliant and resilient environments that meet customer and program needs.
As a Senior Level Cloud Architect your duties will include but are not limited to the following:
Design build and oversee multi-cloud strategies across AWS Azure and GCP.
Define and implement network topologies connectivity solutions and service integrations.
Evaluate and balance tradeoffs between cost performance and resilience.
Provide technical leadership mentoring and architectural governance to engineering teams.
Ensure cloud solutions adhere to security compliance and operational standards.
Stay current on emerging cloud technologies and recommend adoption strategies
Define network topologies connectivity and service integrations.
Balance cost performance and resilience tradeoffs.
Provide technical leadership and architectural governance.
Required Qualifications:
- US Citizenship.
- Bachelors or Masters Degree and 9 years of experience.
- Clearance Requirements: Active or eligible for DoD Security Clearance.
- Proven experience architecting solutions across AWS Azure and GCP.
- Strong knowledge of cloud networking service integration and enterprise-scale design.
- Demonstrated leadership in providing architectural direction and governance.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Hands-on experience designing configuring and maintaining DoD IL5 and IL6 cloud connections including secure networking between on-prem DoD environments and approved cloud regions.
- Proven ability to set up IL5/IL6-compliant connectivity such as:
- Secure Site-to-Site VPNs
- Direct Connect (AWS GovCloud)
- ExpressRoute (Azure Gov & Azure Secret)
- High-side/low-side enclave connectivity
- Boundary security and enclave segmentation
- Experience comparing cloud service providers for IL5/IL6 workloads including:
- AWS GovCloud vs. Azure Government vs. on-prem classified solutions
- Pricing models compute/storage/networking cost breakdowns
- Total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis
- Cost optimization strictly within IL5/IL6 constraints
- Demonstrated ability to perform technical configuration for IL5/IL6 workloads including:
- Secure VPC/VNET design
- Routing subnets firewalls and boundary protections
- FIPS 140-2 cryptography KMS/HSM usage
- Identity integration (CAC/PIV MFA privileged access)
- Strong understanding of DoD SRG RMF DISA STIGs FedRAMP High and ATO requirements for IL5 and IL6 environments.
- Ability to generate documentation diagrams and comparison reports supporting architecture decisions cost evaluations and secure design patterns.
- Experience working directly with ISSOs AOs and cybersecurity teams on ATO packages continuous monitoring and security assessment artifacts.
- Familiarity with audit logging monitoring and incident response processes for IL5/IL6 systems using approved tooling (e.g. CloudWatch Gov Azure Gov Monitor classified SIEMs).
- Ability to translate mission requirements into secure cost-efficient IL5/IL6 cloud architectures.
Tools / Technologies
AWS Azure GCP Terraform VPC Service Mesh
Schedule:M-F 8-5
Work Location: Customer- site
Travel:Yes 0-10%
Relocation Assistance Available:No
Position Contingent Upon Award of Contract:No
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Benefits:
Torch Technologies is proud to offer a stable and professional work environment a competitive salary and an excellent comprehensive benefit package including: ESOP participation 401(k) match and safe-harbor contribution medical dental vision life insurance short-term disability long-term disability flexible spending accounts Health Saving Accounts and Health Reimbursement Accounts EAP education assistance paid time off and holidays.
Applying to Torch Technologies:
Only those candidates invited for an interview will be contacted. Employment at Torch Technologies is contingent upon the successful completion of a comprehensive background check.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin age genetic information citizenship ancestry marital status protected veteran status disability status or any other status protected by federal state or local law. Torch Technologies Inc. participates in E-Verify.
If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran you have the right to request a reasonable accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access Careers Link as a result of your disability. You can request reasonable accommodations by sending an email to Thank you for your interest in Torch Technologies.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Key Skills
- Apache Hive
- S3
- Redshift
- Spark
- AWS
- Solr
- NoSQL
- Data Warehouse
- Internet Of Things
- Kafka
- DynamoDB
- ZooKeeper
About Company
Founded in October 2002, Torch Technologies, Inc. (Torch) is a 100% employee-owned business dedicated to quality technical services, competitive costs and ethical business practices. Torch is headquartered in Huntsville, AL, with employee owners in various technical offices throughout ... View more
