Cloud Architect - Zero-Trust & Hybrid Solutions Lead

JCSSolutions; Fort Meade (MD); Hybrid; USD 104,000 - 149,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Life insurance

PTO

401k with employer match

Professional development reimbursement

Job summary

JCS Solutions LLC is seeking a Principal Cloud Engineer to join the Defense Enclave Services team at Fort Meade. The role focuses on distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and modernization from on‑premises to cloud for DoD environments.

You will design, deploy, test, and migrate zero‑trust network solutions across Azure and on‑premises environments. The position offers a full‑time, day‑shift hybrid schedule with a Secret clearance and DoD 8140 IAT II certification requirement.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of relevant experience.
• Azure/AWS/GCP cloud design and deployment.
• IDAM (Azure AD, CyberArk, Okta) expertise.
• Federal security requirements (NIST, FedRAMP, FISMA).
• Active DoD 8140 IAT Level II certification.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• CGEIT certification beneficial.
• Strong communication in distributed teams.
• Secret clearance or eligibility preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design zero-trust network solutions for a hybrid on-premises and Azure enclave.
• Ensure virtualization and network modernization meet security requirements with minimal disruption.
• Support cloud deployment of modernized network services.
• Develop secure network solutions using virtual switches, VPCs, and virtual firewalls.
• Provide input to enterprise cloud and mission architecture design.
• Evaluate architectures across platforms to align with cloud modernization strategies.
• Identify improvements to user experience, efficiency, and sustainment costs.
• Enforce security best practices and guidelines.

Skills

Cloud architecture design

IDAM and IAM

Security & compliance

Distributed teams communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Azure AD

CyberArk

Okta

Jira/Confluence

Job description

JCS Solutions LLC is seeking a Principal Cloud Engineer to join the Defense Enclave Services team at Fort Meade. The role focuses on distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and modernization from on‑premises to cloud for DoD environments.

You will design, deploy, test, and migrate zero‑trust network solutions across Azure and on‑premises environments. The position offers a full‑time, day‑shift hybrid schedule with a Secret clearance and DoD 8140 IAT II certification requirement.