Cloud Architect/Engineer

Fortis Industries, Inc. DBA - LTS, Inc.; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Fortis Industries, Inc. DBA - LTS, Inc.

seeks a Cloud Platform Architect/Engineer to lead end-to-end design, implementation, administration, security, and continuous improvement of enterprise cloud platforms for federal agency clients in Washington, DC. This role combines strategic architecture with hands-on engineering and operations, supporting CI/CD pipelines, IaC, data integrations, and security, to deliver scalable, resilient, and compliant cloud environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field.
• 8+ years designing, implementing, and supporting cloud-based systems.
• 5+ years in cloud architecture, engineering, or platform administration.
• Experience with federal government systems and compliance requirements.
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and automated deployments.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, implementation, administration, and optimization of cloud platforms and hosting environments.
• Develop and maintain cloud architecture roadmaps, standards, and design docs.
• Engineer, deploy, configure, and support cloud infrastructure, services, networking, databases.
• Provide day-to-day operational support, monitoring, incident response, and performance optimization.
• Ensure platform availability, scalability, resilience, and disaster recovery readiness.
• Design secure cloud architectures complying with cybersecurity requirements.
• Administer IAM, encryption, RBAC, and secure data management.
• Collaborate with development and DevSecOps teams on CI/CD and IaC.
• Design and maintain integrations among apps, databases, APIs, reporting platforms.
• Evaluate capacity, trends; implement infra improvements.
• Support deployments, migrations, upgrades, patching, releases.
• Conduct root-cause analyses and preventive actions.
• Maintain architecture diagrams, procedures, and configuration baselines.
• Participate in Agile planning, requirements, testing, and change control.
• Support security assessments, audits, and authorization packages.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring on cloud engineering best practices.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Cloud engineering

DevSecOps

Security compliance

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Job description

Cloud Architect/Engineer

The Cloud Platform Architect/Engineer provides end-to-end leadership for the design, implementation, administration, security, and continuous improvement of enterprise cloud platforms, application hosting environments, and data integration ecosystems for federal agency clients. This role combines cloud architecture responsibilities with hands-on engineering and operations support to ensure scalable, secure, resilient, and high-performing technology environments.

The successful candidate will serve as both a technical strategist and hands-on engineer, working closely with application developers, data engineers, security personnel, business stakeholders, and operations teams to support platform modernization, application enhancements, system integrations, and ongoing production operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design, implementation, administration, and optimization of cloud-based platforms and application hosting environments.
• Develop and maintain cloud architecture roadmaps, technology standards, and technical design documentation.
• Engineer, deploy, configure, and support cloud infrastructure, platform services, networking components, databases, and supporting technologies.
• Provide day-to-day operational support, system monitoring, troubleshooting, incident response, and performance optimization.
• Ensure platform availability, scalability, resilience, and disaster recovery readiness.
• Design and implement secure cloud architectures that comply with organizational and federal cybersecurity requirements.
• Administer identity and access management, encryption services, role-based access controls, and secure data management solutions.
• Collaborate with development and DevSecOps teams to support CI/CD pipelines, automated deployments, and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) practices.
• Design, develop, and maintain integrations among applications, databases, APIs, reporting platforms, and external systems.
• Evaluate platform capacity, utilization, and performance trends; recommend and implement infrastructure improvements.
• Support application deployments, environment migrations, system upgrades, patch management, and release activities.
• Conduct root-cause analysis of production issues and implement corrective and preventive actions.
• Develop and maintain architecture diagrams, operational procedures, environment documentation, and configuration baselines.
• Participate in Agile planning, requirements discussions, testing activities, change control, and deployment reviews.
• Support security assessments, audits, vulnerability remediation, compliance activities, and authorization packages.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship on cloud engineering, platform architecture, and modernization best practices.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field.
• Minimum 8 years of experience designing, implementing, and supporting cloud-based systems and application platforms.
• Minimum 5 years of experience serving in cloud architecture, cloud engineering, infrastructure engineering, or platform administration roles.
• Experience supporting federal government systems and programs.
• Experience architecting and maintaining highly available, enterprise-scale cloud environments.
• Experience supporting web applications, data platforms, analytics environments, and system integrations.
• Experience implementing Infrastructure-as-Code, automated deployments, and modern cloud operating models.
• Experience with cloud networking, identity management, monitoring, logging, and performance optimization tools.
• Experience supporting API-based integrations, data exchange processes, and enterprise application ecosystems.
• Experience with cloud-hosted reporting, dashboarding, and data analytics environments.
• Experience supporting enterprise portals, customer-facing applications, and integrated data platforms.
• Experience supporting systems operating within FedRAMP, FISMA, NIST, and Authority-to-Operate (ATO) environments.
• Experience with Agile delivery methodologies and DevSecOps practices.
• Knowledge of cybersecurity frameworks, risk management practices, and secure cloud architecture principles.
• Strong troubleshooting, analytical, technical documentation, and stakeholder communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting lender oversight, financial management, portfolio management, risk management, reporting, analytics, or business intelligence platforms.
• Cloud certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect, AWS SysOps Administrator, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Azure Administrator Associate, or equivalent.
• Experience supporting Small Business Administration (SBA) systems, including CAFS, Lender Match, loan servicing, lener oversight, or credit risk management solutions, is highly desirable.

PCI Federal (PCIF) and its subsidiaries are an equal-opportunity employer. PCIF does not discriminate on the basis of age, sex, race, national origin, religion, marital status, sexual orientation or identity, Veterans or Disability status.

Preference may be extended to qualified Native American Indian candidates in accordance with applicable federal law.

Equal employment opportunity, including veterans and individuals with disabilities.

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