Lead Cloud Architect
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Job Description
Lead cloud architecture for C5MI’s secure federal SAP S/4HANA modernization programs. Direct infrastructure, authorization, resilience, and platform engineering for mission-critical defense environments.
Responsibilities:
- Own end-to-end cloud and infrastructure architecture for a large-scale greenfield SAP S/4HANA financial management modernization program
- Design the accredited hosting environment, network topology, connectivity and boundary approach, and integration with the customer’s enterprise cloud
- Lead and develop the cloud and platform engineering team, including work allocation, delivery quality, staffing, performance, and capability development
- Design development, test, staging, training, and production environments, including sizing, refresh strategy, and capacity planning
- Ensure compliance with federal cloud security requirements, including FedRAMP authorization levels and DoD Cloud Computing Security Requirements Guide impact levels
- Partner with risk management framework and security personnel on authorization artifacts, control implementation and assessment, POA&M, and continuous authorization to operate
- Define infrastructure hardening standards, baseline configuration management, vulnerability scanning, and patch management
- Design identity, credential, and access management integration, including federation, multifactor authentication, and privileged access management
- Establish infrastructure-as-code, automation, and configuration management practices
- Design resilience, backup, high availability, and disaster recovery architecture for denied, degraded, intermittent, and limited-bandwidth conditions
- Define containerization, orchestration, portability, and container hardening approaches
- Own platform monitoring, logging, observability, audit log retention, and protection
- Present and defend architecture at program milestone reviews and government security and architecture working groups
- Advise program leadership on hosting costs, licensing and consumption models, and technical and schedule implications
- Travel up to 50% to client sites
- Set performance expectations, provide coaching and feedback, conduct evaluations, and address performance issues
- Develop employees through coaching, mentoring, training, and stretch assignments
- Foster an inclusive, respectful, high-performing environment
- Plan, assign, and prioritize work; manage workloads and staffing; escalate resource risks
- Apply company policies and employment practices; partner with HR and mitigate people, delivery, and compliance risks
- Communicate decisions and changes and align objectives across matrixed, cross-functional, and client environments
- Perform other related tasks as assigned
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience; 8-12 years of relevant experience and 3-5 years of people leadership experience with a Bachelor’s degree, or 10-14 years of relevant experience and 5-8 years of people leadership experience without a degree
- 8+ years of cloud or enterprise infrastructure architecture experience, including 5+ years focused on a major public cloud platform
- Demonstrated experience designing and delivering workloads in a government cloud environment, including Azure Government, AWS GovCloud, or an equivalent accredited enclave
- Working knowledge of FedRAMP authorization, the DoD Cloud Computing Security Requirements Guide, and Impact Level 4 and 5 hosting requirements
- Experience supporting the risk management framework authorization process, including control implementation, artifact production, and continuous monitoring
- Demonstrated experience with infrastructure-as-code, automation, and CI/CD tooling in a controlled environment
- Experience designing high availability, backup, and disaster recovery architectures for mission-critical enterprise applications
- Experience leading an engineering team, including work allocation, quality review, and performance management
- Must meet DoDM 8140.03 IAT Level II baseline certification requirements, such as CompTIA Security+ CE, prior to being granted privileged access
- Must obtain any computing environment certification required by the Government within six months of assignment
- Secret security clearance required: must hold an active Secret clearance or be able to obtain and maintain one prior to assignment; requires U.S. citizenship
- Ability to travel up to 50% to client sites
- Advanced certifications valued
- Nice to have: experience hosting or integrating SAP S/4HANA workloads in an accredited federal cloud, SAP-certified infrastructure sizing and HANA platform operations
- Nice to have: Azure Solutions Architect Expert or AWS Solutions Architect Professional certification
- Nice to have: zero trust reference architecture implementation in a defense environment
- Nice to have: hardened container registries, Kubernetes orchestration, and DevSecOps pipeline accreditation
- Nice to have: federal ERP modernization programs, Department of War SAP environments, or other defense business systems acquired under DoDI 5000.75
- Nice to have: CISSP or equivalent advanced security certification
Benefits:
- Medical coverage
- Dental coverage
- Vision coverage
- Life insurance
- Long-term disability coverage
- 401(k) plan
- Bonus opportunities
- Paid holidays
- Paid time off
- Personal development support


















