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USAF - Cloud ArchitectcFocus Software · Linthicum Heights
USAF - Cloud Architect
Linthicum HeightsOn-siteFull-time
AI Summary
Designs and maintains enterprise cloud and hybrid architectures for the USAF, including migration planning, classified and unclassified impact-level designs, security controls, and RMF/ATO support. Produces architecture documentation and guides engineering teams on secure configuration standards.
About this role
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:
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.
- 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.
Skills
ATOCI/CDCloud ArchitectureCloud MonitoringCloud NetworkingConfiguration As CodeCross-domain IntegrationDevSecOpsFinOpsHybrid CloudImpact LevelsInfrastructure As CodeMulti-cloudRMFTCO ModelingZero Trust
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