USAF - Cloud Architect

Linthicum Heights, MD
Full Time
USAF - DC3
Experienced
cFocus Software seeks a Cloud Architect to join our program supporting the United States Air Force (USAF). This position is on-site in Linthicum Heights, MD. This position requires an Active TS/SCI clearance.
Qualifications:
  • Active TS/SCI clearance
  • B.S. Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field
  • Experience designing enterprise cloud and hybrid solutions aligned with mission needs.
  • Ability to assess workload dependencies and plan modernization, migration, and integration.
  • Knowledge of cloud networking, data integration, access controls, monitoring, and recovery design.
  • Knowledge of impact levels, classified environments, authorization boundaries, Zero Trust, and RMF/ATO.
  • Understanding of DevSecOps, CI/CD, IaC, CaC, and automated security controls.
  • Ability to document architecture and assess technical alternatives, cost, capacity, and risk.
  • Strong communication skills for coordinating Government stakeholders and technical teams.
Duties:
  • Develop and maintain DC3 cloud computing strategy in alignment with enterprise IT architecture, enterprise data strategy, mission requirements, and Government priorities.
  • Assess existing workloads, infrastructure, interfaces, and dependencies; develop target cloud architectures and phased transition plans for Government review.
  • Design integration between cloud and on-premises applications, networks, infrastructure, and data services, including edge computing capabilities supporting global missions.
  • Develop designs for multiple impact levels across classified and unclassified environments. Define technical controls and separation consistent with Government-approved security architecture and ATO boundaries.
  • Plan Government-approved cross-domain integration and Cybersecurity Service Provider (CSSP) capability integration with cybersecurity and network teams.
  • Define architecture patterns for Infrastructure as Code, Configuration as Code, and CI/CD pipelines, including Government-specified security guardrails and consistent configurations across environments.
  • Design logging, continuous monitoring, observability, alerting, and performance reporting across cloud resources and authorization boundaries.
  • Incorporate resilience, availability, capacity, recovery, and continuity requirements into cloud designs; coordinate operational acceptance and support requirements with engineering and operations teams.
  • Assess technical debt and prepare engineering trade studies comparing Refactor, Replatform, Replace, and Retire alternatives, including Total Cost of Ownership models and build/buy recommendations.
  • Develop migration plans for high-risk workloads to accredited multi-cloud environments while Government facility security and TEMPEST improvements are performed, as directed.
  • Prepare technical design and as-built architecture documentation. Support CADO-IS enterprise architecture documentation and maintain traceability to approved requirements and baselines.
  • Coordinate architecture reviews and configuration change control. Guide implementation, integration, and testing; prepare solutions for Government review and authorized deployment.
  • Support Risk Management Framework (RMF), Authorization to Operate (ATO), and continuous ATO activities through technical control designs, architecture evidence, and monitoring requirements.
  • Define resource tagging and attribution approaches supporting data governance and FinOps; analyze utilization, capacity, and cost allocation to inform cloud investment decisions.
  • Evaluate technology options and modernization risks, brief recommendations to Government stakeholders, and guide engineering teams on approved architecture and secure configuration standards.
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