This role will primarily be FULLY REMOTE- Must be able to come onsite for the first day onboarding/training/security briefing.

seeking a Principle Cloud Architect (AWS) to assess, design, and develop automated cloud-based requirements and architectures and develop derived requirements and systems engineering artifacts into advanced cloud infrastructure, management, and operations.

Responsibilities include:
- Partnering with the Chief Engineer to develop advanced, leading-edge, automated, cloud-oriented architectures that provide new cybersecurity capabilities to a major U.S. Government customer
- Define and communicate a shared technical and architectural vision
- Become a member of an Agile Feature team to design and implement an automated cloud infrastructure supporting advanced, cloud-oriented cybersecurity capabilities
- Interfacing directly with customers, stakeholders, and end-users regarding priorities, capability architectures, requirements, use cases, and stories to derive, develop and decompose next-cycle updates and specifications
- Full lifecycle oversight of requirements driven automation architecture

Required Skills:
- Must be a US Citizen
- Active Secret clearance (Will be upgraded to TS/SCI clearance)
- 10 years of applicable experience
- 5 years of cloud architecting experience
- In-depth cloud technology automation knowledge and implementation experience
- Proven leadership skills and meaningful experience successfully leading technical teams and projects
- Able to work effectively as a leader, in a group, or as an individual contributor
- Strong working knowledge of Cloud centric IT products and services
- Knowledge of Networking
- In Depth Knowledge of Automation techniques, including microservices, pipeline driven delivery, full scope automation orchestration, and configuration driven deployments
- Experience in landing zones, guard rails, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- Direct experience with scripting in JSON, YAML, HCL, Python, bash/PSH and/or CloudFormation
- Innovative, technical mindset
- Independently driven
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills and proven ability to work effectively with all levels of the organization
- Ability to analyze information and identify relevant facts
- Ability to shape opinions of key stakeholders and influence outcomes
- Proven track record of achieving desired results
- Strong and diverse business and technical acumen
- Experience working with senior leadership including VP and Director levels

Required Education: Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems or related technical field. Two years of related work experience may be substituted for each year of degree level education.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $140,000.00 - $150,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off

Experience level:

• 6 years

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Education:

• Bachelor's (Required)

Experience:

• IT: 10 years (Required)
• Cloud architecture: 5 years (Required)
• cloud technology automation knowledge & implementation: 5 years (Required)
• Strong knowledge of Cloud centric IT products/services: 4 years (Required)
• Automation techniques, including microservices: 4 years (Required)
• scripting in JSON, Python, bash or CloudFormation: 4 years (Required)

Security clearance:

• Secret (Required)

Ability to Commute:

• Sterling, VA 20166 (Required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Sterling, VA 20166