Lead Cloud Architect

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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