Cloud Infrastructure and Storage Architect, SME

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $98 - $102 / hour

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

☁️ Cloud Engineer

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iQuasar LLC

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2004

💼 Consulting

🏗️ Construction

🔒 Cybersecurity

Consulting • Construction • Cybersecurity

iQuasar LLC is a Northern Virginia–based GovCon solutions firm with more than two decades of experience helping government and commercial clients prepare, pursue, win, and manage government contracts across the full lifecycle. They provide end-to-end services including proposal and capture management, government contract vehicle and post-award support, cleared recruitment and commercial staffing, software development and AI integration, and cybersecurity and compliance (CMMC, ISO). iQuasar serves emerging small businesses through established federal contractors, focusing on compliance, measurable outcomes, and tailored support for federal procurement and certification needs.

📋 Description

• Provide senior technical leadership for enterprise infrastructure architecture and modernization supporting the SEC ISS contract • Translate mission and functional requirements into scalable, secure technical solutions across on-premises and hybrid/multi-cloud environments • Lead cross-functional engineering and operations teams to improve reliability, automation, and service performance aligned to SEC OIT objectives • Drive technology evaluations, proofs of concept, pilots, and demonstrations • Ensure designs integrate with 24x7x365 enterprise operations and observability requirements • Align architecture decisions with Zero Trust, FISMA, and SEC governance expectations • Design, implement, and manage secure, highly available cloud environments • Lead Azure cloud migration, modernization, infrastructure, and storage initiatives • Design, configure, and administer Azure enterprise cloud environments • Lead complex infrastructure and storage migrations, upgrades, modernization initiatives, and integrations across cloud and on-premises environments • Support audit readiness, compliance, governance controls, and technical documentation • Perform storage performance tuning, capacity planning, disaster recovery, business continuity, and risk assessment • Integrate infrastructure, network, security, and operations teams • Develop architecture governance, standards, and operational best practices

🎯 Requirements

• US Citizen • Ability to obtain and maintain SEC Public Trust (or higher if required) • Bachelor's degree in a relevant field • 12+ years of experience in enterprise IT infrastructure, including engineering, architecture, and administration of enterprise storage platforms • Minimum 8 years of experience in IT infrastructure roles, including 5+ years focused on Azure cloud engineering and architecture • Experience with IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS cloud hosting architecture/design patterns • Proven experience managing multi-discipline infrastructure, server, storage, and system operations teams • Experience translating functional and business requirements into scalable enterprise technical solutions and leading integration efforts • Experience designing, implementing, and managing secure, highly available cloud environments for enterprise services • Experience leading Azure cloud migration and modernization initiatives within regulated or compliance-driven environments • Hands-on experience with Azure Virtual Machines, Virtual Machine Scale Sets, Azure Containers, Kubernetes, Cloud Services, and related cloud-native technologies • Extensive experience with enterprise storage platforms, SAN/NAS technologies, storage virtualization, and backup/recovery solutions • Experience leading complex infrastructure and storage migrations, upgrades, modernization initiatives, and integrations across cloud and on-premises environments • Experience supporting audit readiness, compliance requirements, governance controls, and technical documentation in federal or highly regulated environments • Advanced expertise in storage performance tuning, capacity planning, disaster recovery, business continuity, and risk assessment • Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills • Hands-on experience with Clustered Data ONTAP software • Strong experience with Azure DevOps, Repos, Pipelines, and Boards • Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert preferred • HashiCorp Terraform Associate Certification preferred • NetApp Certified Data Administrator (NCDA) or equivalent preferred • Preferred experience with U.S. Federal Government environments and FISMA, NIST, OMB, and FedRAMP compliance • Preferred experience supporting SEC or similarly regulated financial-sector federal agencies • Preferred experience with observability, monitoring, and ITSM platform integrations • Preferred hands-on experience with Kubernetes, OpenShift, Ansible, GitOps toolchains, and automation frameworks • Preferred experience implementing immutable infrastructure and policy-as-code controls • Preferred experience leading architecture and modernization initiatives in 24x7x365 enterprise operations environments • Preferred proficiency in Ansible, Python, and Bash scripting • Preferred experience developing and enforcing infrastructure, cloud, and storage standards, policies, and operational best practices • Preferred experience with FinOps, cloud cost optimization, and cloud resource governance

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote position • Equal Opportunity Employer • Military Spouse Employment Partnership (MSEP) partner • Virginia Values Veterans (V3) Program partner • Inclusive hiring practices

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