Job Description

Responsibilities

The Cloud Architect position, a crucial role in supporting a government customer, is a hands-on cloud engineering position that primarily focuses on migrating workloads to the cloud. The role is pivotal in delivering infrastructure migrations to the cloud for highly sensitive information and maintaining ownership of technical and service elements related to cloud migration projects. The Cloud Architect contributes to all levels of architecture and maintains technical documentation while consulting team members on secure coding practices and developing a familiarity with new tools and best practices. Drives the roll-out of cloud management platforms, evaluates their performance, and implements enhancements.

Develops and enriches the product portfolio of cloud services and value-added services. Creates solution recommendations to include a Basis of Estimate for cloud services. Evaluate the cost/benefit of cloud vs. virtual private networks vs. dedicated hosting vs. in-house solutions and identify portions of the organization’s IT platform/infrastructure with the highest potential return for cloud deployment. Performs operations and maintenance of secure managed cloud platform solutions. Implements and maintains automation to enhance operation, alerting, and auto-remediation of events. Develops, maintains, and deploys infrastructure as code using CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Create security-driven Azure enterprise architectures, enterprise systems, and service-oriented architectures.
• Establish and execute detailed cloud migration project plans.
• Drive cloud consulting engagements by providing technical and business insights to cloud strategy engagements, technology and architecture, deployments, cloud migrations, and portfolio management. 
• Lead the design and implementation of PaaS/IaaS services, constructs, and deployment methods using containerization, database-as-a-service, storage, and infrastructure automation.
• Provide expertise in architecture and design of services and systems in support of the various customer applications through the organization and its security.
• Participate in technical project review meetings to ensure technical designs meet the client’s operational requirements and infrastructure/security standards.
• Educate and influence stakeholders and engineering teams on effective cloud solutions and best practices.

Qualifications

Mandatory Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s degree and 12+ years of experience; OR Master’s Degree and 10+ years of experience; OR 7 years with PhD. A degree from an ABET or NCAE accredited institution in one of the following fields is highly desired: Information Technology, Data Science, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Systems, or Software Engineering.
• However, four (4) years of additional relevant experience may be considered in lieu of a Bachelor’s degree.

• Required Active Certification(s):

  • Active IAT Level II (CompTIA Security+).

  • Active CCSP, CASP+, CISSP, or Computing Environment Certificate equivalent to IAM Level III or IASAE Level II.

• A minimum 3 years of experience specifically within Microsoft Azure Government.
• Proven experience in designing flexible, scalable, and highly-available cloud architectures and systems.
• Expertise in containerization technologies (Kubernetes, Docker) and IAC tools (Terraform, ARM templates).
• Familiarity with DevOps concepts and tools (GitLab, JIRA, Jenkins).
• Knowledge of cloud computing service models Software as a Service (SaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), and Platform as a Service (PaaS).
• Knowledge of cloud computing deployment models in a public, private, and hybrid environment.
• Knowledge of cybersecurity principles, cyber threats, and vulnerabilities.
• Knowledge of networking concepts, protocols, and network security methodologies.
• Knowledge of risk management processes.
• Active Secret clearance (TS/SCI eligibility preferred).

Desired Qualifications  

• In-depth expertise with DAF CLOUDWorks (multi-cloud environments).
• Familiarity with NIST 800-53, FedRAMP, security tools, and principles.
• Experience with data visualization tools (e.g., Power BI) and cyber threat intelligence platforms.
• Knowledge of AI/ML concepts and tools.

Desired Certifications  

Cloud:

• Azure Solutions Architect Expert
• Azure Administrator Associate
• AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Professional/Associate)

Cloud Security:

• CCSP (Certified Cloud Security Professional)
• Cloud+ (CompTIA Cloud Plus)
• GCLD (GIAC Cloud Security Essentials)
• GCSA (GIAC Cloud Security Automation

Project Management:

• Project Management Professional (PMP)
• PMI-Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

Peraton Overview

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can’t be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.

Target Salary Range

$146,000 - $234,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.

EEO

EEO: Equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veterans, or other characteristics protected by law.

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