Cloud Architect

Zachary Piper Solutions is seeking a Cloud Architect to support a DHA contract that supports operational medicine systems across development, test, and production environments. The Cloud Architect will provide technical leadership to ensure platforms are secure, scalable, reliable, and aligned with government standards and mission needs. This is a fully REMOTE position.

Responsibilities:

• Lead cloud architecture design for JOMIS platforms and systems, including reference architecture, landing zone standards, environment design, and network segmentation
• Define cloud hosting and connectivity approaches that support operational medicine systems, enterprise users, integrations, and deployed environments
• Document, propose, and pressure test solution design options for cloud hosting and optimization solution designs including clear tradeoffs, recommended course(s) of action, and decisions to be made
• Drive reliability and performance practices, including scalability planning, resiliency patterns, disaster recovery strategies, and uptime targets
• Support modernization efforts by contributing to legacy system migration planning, transition architectures, and phased implementation roadmaps
• Partner with cybersecurity teams to ensure architectures align with Zero Trust principles, identity-based access, encryption, auditing, and continuous monitoring requirements
• Establish and maintain cloud governance practices, including architecture review processes, technical standards, and reusable patterns across teams and vendors
• Guide DevSecOps platform architecture, including CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, automated compliance evidence, and environment promotion strategies
• Provide clear and concise briefings to government and BCG leadership on cloud architecture decisions, risks, tradeoffs, and delivery impacts, along with a perspective on recommended course(s) of action
• Develop and maintain architecture documentation, including system context diagrams, deployment views, interface mappings, and DoDAF-aligned artifacts when required

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in an Information Technology field
• 8+ years of experience in cloud architecture, platform engineering, or infrastructure roles
• Demonstrated experience designing secure cloud or hybrid environments in regulated or compliance-driven organizations
• Demonstrated experience modernizing legacy and monolithic architectures into cloud-native or microservices-based architectures
• Strong understanding of networking, identity and access management, secrets management, logging, monitoring, and incident response integration
• Hands-on experience with DevSecOps concepts, automation, infrastructure as code, and CI/CD pipelines
• Active Secret Clearance

Compensation:

• $130,000 - $175,000 *depending on years of experience*
• Health, Dental, Vision, PTO, 401K, Holidays, Sick Leave if required by Law

This job opens for applications on 1/13/2026. Applications for this job will be accepted for at least 30 days from the posting date

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