- Job type
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- Level
- Principal
- Department
- Engineering
- Experience
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- Posted
- Sep 11, 2026
About the role
Role Description:
The Cloud Architect will design and guide the cloud and hybrid infrastructure supporting the team's AI platform and DAG mission capabilities. The Architect will ensure that the technical environment is scalable, resilient, secure, cost-effective, and compatible with the sponsor's enterprise architecture and operating environment.
The role will work closely with the AI/ML Architect to ensure AI workloads can be efficiently deployed and scaled, with the Platform Engineer to operationalize infrastructure through automation, and with the Security Engineer to satisfy classified-environment security requirements. The Cloud Architect will evaluate COTS/FOSS and government enterprise services and establish reusable infrastructure patterns that support continuous delivery.
Technical Skills:
- Cloud architecture
- AWS, Azure, and/or other government cloud environments
- Kubernetes
- Containerized architectures
- Cloud-native application architecture
- Infrastructure as Code
- Terraform
- Networking
- VPC/VNet architecture
- Identity and access management
- Storage architectures
- Compute architecture
- High availability
- Disaster recovery
- Scalability and performance engineering
- Cloud security
- Zero Trust architectures
- Infrastructure automation
- CI/CD
- Observability
- Cloud cost optimization/FinOps
- Hybrid cloud
- On-premises/cloud integration
- COTS/FOSS evaluation