Principal Cloud Architect

Koniag Technology Solutions a Koniag Government Services company is seeking a highly experienced Principal Cloud Architect to serve as the senior technical subject matter expert across Microsoft Azure Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This individual will provide overarching cloud architecture leadership strategy design and governance across multi-cloud enterprise environments supporting our government customers. The ideal candidate is an accomplished technical visionary with a deep passion for cloud technologies DevSecOps methodologies and automation committed to delivering secure scalable and highly available solutions across complex multi-cloud ecosystems. This position requires an active Secret clearance at minimum with Top Secret preferred. We offer competitive compensation and an extraordinary benefits package including health dental and vision insurance 401K with company matching flexible spending accounts paid holidays three weeks paid time off and Principal Cloud Architect will serve as the most senior technical authority for cloud architecture strategy design governance and implementation across Azure AWS and GCP platforms. This individual will lead and mentor a team of cloud architects and engineers drive enterprise-wide cloud adoption and modernization initiatives and ensure alignment of multi-cloud solutions with organizational security requirements and government compliance standards. Principal responsibilities will include but are not limited to:Serve as the senior technical subject matter expert (SME) and authority for multi-cloud architecture strategy design governance and support across Azure AWS and GCP enterprise and drive enterprise-wide cloud architecture standards best practices and governance frameworks across all three major cloud and implement security-driven multi-cloud enterprise architectures including enterprise systems service-oriented architectures (SOA) microservices and interoperability senior architectural expertise in the design of services and systems supporting customer applications across multiple cloud platforms including service specifications integration specifications and associated DevSecOps the evaluation selection and adoption of cloud platforms tools and technologies to best meet mission and business high-performing flexible scalable and highly available enterprise systems leveraging Cloud Native and Hybrid Cloud architectures across Azure AWS and and guide the development and implementation of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using tools such as HashiCorp Terraform AWS CloudFormation Google Cloud Deployment Manager and/or Azure Resource Manager (ARM) across non-containerized and containerized strategic direction for the build and maintenance of fully automated CI/CD pipelines across multiple platforms including Azure DevOps AWS CodePipeline Google Cloud Build and GitLab and enforce cloud security best practices leveraging native security tools across Azure Security Center AWS Security Hub and Google Cloud Security Command the identification of constraints and bottlenecks across engineering lifecycles and drive the implementation of automation solutions to increase efficiency and reduce manual complex multi-cloud system and component architectures into clear concise presentations and documentation for executive leadership and non-technical and champion a culture of collaboration transparency innovation and automation across technical teams and the broader within and champion Agile development environments applying methodologies such as Scrum Kanban and Test-Driven Development (TDD).Provide technical leadership guidance and mentorship to cloud architects engineers and DevSecOps teams across all cloud with cross-functional teams program managers and government customers to ensure cloud architecture aligns with mission objectives security requirements and compliance and maintain enterprise cloud architecture roadmaps ensuring alignment with organizational goals and emerging cloud cloud cost optimization strategies and governance initiatives across multi-cloud the adoption of Zero Trust Architecture principles and ensure compliance with federal security frameworks such as FedRAMP and NIST and Experience:Required: Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Technology or a related field from an accredited college or least 15 years of experience providing technical and/or management leadership on major tasks or technology assignments involving DevSecOps and technical least 7 years of hands-on experience architecting and designing enterprise solutions across two or more of the major cloud platforms (Azure AWS GCP).At least 5 years of experience in a senior or principal architect role leading multi-cloud architecture strategy and governance across enterprise least 5 years of experience developing DevSecOps solutions including Infrastructure as Code CI/CD Pipelines and scripting (PowerShell Bash and/or Python).One or more of the following required certifications:Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate (AZ-204)AWS Certified Developer AssociateGoogle Cloud Associate Cloud EngineerActive Secret Clearance or higher. Desired:Masters degree in Computer Science Information Technology or a related or more of the following desired certifications:Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305)Microsoft Certified: Azure DevOps Engineer Expert (AZ-400)AWS Certified Solutions Architect ProfessionalAWS Certified DevOps Engineer ProfessionalGoogle Cloud Professional Cloud ArchitectGoogle Cloud Professional DevOps Skills and Competencies:Exceptional communication skills in English both written and oral with the ability to effectively communicate complex multi-cloud technical concepts to executive leadership government stakeholders and non-technical hands-on experience architecting and scaling flexible highly available and secure enterprise systems across Azure AWS and/or expertise in Cloud Native and Hybrid Cloud architectures across multiple major cloud in Infrastructure as Code development using HashiCorp Terraform and one or more platform-native IaC tools (ARM Templates AWS CloudFormation Google Cloud Deployment Manager).Experience building and managing fully automated CI/CD pipelines using platform-native and third-party toolsets such as Azure DevOps AWS CodePipeline Google Cloud Build or GitLab scripting skills in one or more languages including PowerShell Bash and/or Python for automation deployment and infrastructure experience with enterprise-level multi-cloud architecture including service-oriented architectures microservices and interoperability ability to define and enforce cloud governance frameworks architecture standards and security best practices across multi-cloud ability to identify engineering lifecycle bottlenecks and implement automation-driven solutions at an enterprise working in Agile development environments specifically utilizing Scrum Kanban and Test-Driven Development (TDD) to design and communicate complex multi-cloud system and component architectures in simple clear language for diverse audiences including executive with Zero Trust Architecture principles and federal security compliance frameworks (e.g. FedRAMP NIST 800-53).Demonstrated experience leading mentoring and growing teams of cloud architects and to building a culture of collaboration transparency and continuous improvement through automation and Skills and Competencies:Experience working in a federal government IT -on experience across all three major cloud platforms: Microsoft Azure Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).Professional or expert-level certifications across two or more major cloud platforms (see desired certifications above).Experience with multi-cloud management and governance platforms such as HashiCorp Terraform Cloud Prisma Cloud or comparable with containerized environments and container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes Amazon EKS Azure AKS or Google with additional CI/CD toolsets such as Jenkins GitHub Actions or comparable pipeline with cloud-native security services across platforms including Azure Security Center AWS Security Hub Google Cloud Security Command Center and Cloud with additional IaC tools such as Ansible or of single sign-on (SSO) concepts using SAML and OAuth2 including integrations across Azure Active Directory AWS IAM Identity Center and Google Cloud with multi-account and multi-project cloud organization strategies including AWS Organizations Azure Management Groups and GCP Organization with FinOps principles and cloud cost optimization strategies across multi-cloud with cloud-native data and analytics services across platforms including Azure Synapse AWS Redshift and Google with service mesh technologies and API gateway solutions in multi-cloud Equal Employment Opportunity Policy:The company is an equal opportunity employer. The company shall not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race color religion creed ethnicity sex sexual orientation gender or gender identity (except where gender is a bona fide occupational qualification) national origin or ancestry age disability citizenship military/veteran status marital status genetic information or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal state or local law. We are committed to equal employment opportunity in all decisions related to employment promotion wages benefits and all other privileges terms and conditions of company is dedicated to seeking all qualified applicants. 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