Cloud Architect – Services

🕒 July 27

🏛️ District of Columbia, Washington – Remote

🏛️ District of Columbia – Remote ☕ Washington – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

☁️ Cloud Engineer

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Koniag Government Services

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1975

🏛️ Government

🎖️ Defense

💼 Consulting

Government • Defense • Consulting

Koniag Government Services is an Alaska Native Corporation (ANC) that provides technical, professional, and operational expertise to the U. S. public sector. KGS supports Defense & Intelligence, Federal Civilian, and Health customers with enterprise solutions, professional services, and operations management, and emphasizes mission-focused outcomes, contracting speed (ANC direct awards), and strategic/technology partnerships. The company positions itself as a mission partner delivering people, technology, and program management to government customers.

📋 Description

• Design and architect end-to-end cloud-service and infrastructure solutions that meet performance, scalability, security, resilience, interoperability, and cost-efficiency requirements. • Develop and enforce cloud architecture standards, patterns, governance practices, and technical reference architectures across program environments. • Lead the evaluation, selection, and implementation of cloud services, platforms, and technologies that support mission-critical objectives and program modernization. • Collaborate with engineering, development, security, and operations teams to integrate cloud solutions with existing systems, workflows, and enterprise services. • Develop and maintain cloud architecture documentation, including architecture diagrams, technical specifications, service designs, reference architectures, and decision records. • Support continuous ATO and automated ATO processes by designing cloud-service patterns, automation, integrations, and evidence-producing controls that support ongoing authorization and monitoring. • Design and support ingestion, normalization, and use of compliance data from FedRAMP, StateRAMP, SOC 2, and other approved sources within cloud-security, assessment, and authorization workflows. • Develop or contribute to Security Assessment Verification and Validation Plans that define objectives, scope, dependencies, control-validation approaches, and implementation roadmaps. • Design and implement cloud architectures that enable AI-driven analytics and automation, where approved, to improve threat detection, operational response, and service management. • Lead or support Continuity of Operations (COOP), disaster recovery, and business-continuity planning; design and evaluate cloud solutions that sustain mission and business processes during and after disruptions. • Participate in Red Team/Blue Team exercises by ensuring cloud-service architectures support controlled testing, monitoring, analysis, remediation, and lessons learned. • Monitor and optimize cloud infrastructure for performance, reliability, and cost; implement automation and IaC solutions where appropriate.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Information Systems, or a related field from an accredited college or university. • 8+ years of experience in IT infrastructure, cloud computing, or related fields, with at least 5 years in a cloud architecture role. • Demonstrated experience designing and implementing solutions on one or more major cloud platforms: AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform. • Experience with cloud-migration strategies, including lift-and-shift, re-platforming, and re-architecting approaches. • Exceptional written and oral communication skills in English, with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts effectively to technical and non-technical stakeholders. • Deep expertise in cloud-platform services, including compute, storage, networking, databases, security, observability, and DevOps tooling across AWS, Azure, and/or GCP. • Proficiency in IaC tools such as Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates, or equivalent tools. • Strong understanding of cloud-networking concepts, including VPCs, VPNs, load balancing, DNS, CDN, and hybrid-connectivity solutions. • Experience designing and implementing cloud-security architectures, including IAM, encryption, secure logging, policy enforcement, and Zero Trust principles. • Knowledge of containerization and orchestration technologies, including Docker and Kubernetes. • Familiarity with CI/CD pipeline design and DevSecOps practices. • Experience with cloud monitoring, logging, and observability tools, such as AWS CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, Splunk, Datadog, or equivalent platforms. • Working knowledge of cATO/automated ATO concepts, continuous monitoring, security-evidence automation, and compliance-data integration. • Experience working within compliance frameworks such as FedRAMP, NIST SP 800-53, FISMA, and SOC 2. • Knowledge of business-continuity, disaster-recovery, and COOP principles as applied to cloud services. • Strong understanding of cost management and FinOps principles for cloud environments. • Ability to provide technical leadership and guidance in a collaborative, Agile delivery environment.

🏖️ Benefits

• health, dental and vision insurance • 401K with company matching • flexible spending accounts • paid holidays • three weeks paid time off • more