Cloud Solution Architect

Judge Group, Inc.; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 124,000 - 138,000; Full time

Job summary

The Judge Group is seeking a Cloud Solution Architect to support a large federal agency in Washington, DC. This onsite role requires expertise in multi-cloud environments, IaC, and security.

You will set up automation tools, CI pipelines, and design scalable cloud architectures with strong governance and compliance aligned to CIS benchmarks. Candidates should have 5+ years designing enterprise cloud environments (FedRAMP), hands-on experience with AWS/Azure/GCP, Terraform, Kubernetes, and

Qualifications

• 5 years designing enterprise cloud environments, including FedRAMP certified platforms.
• 5 years of re-architecting and launching major workloads in the public cloud.
• 5 years of software engineering, solutions architecture, or network systems engineering.
• Experience with modeling tools.

Responsibilities

• Set up and configure multi-cloud automation tools and CI pipelines.
• Develop and operationalize cloud solution architectures with high availability and security.
• Migrate mission critical systems to public cloud environments.
• Design cloud networks (VPN, VPC, subnets) and firewall rules.
• Administer Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Windows servers.
• Work with Cyber Security to uphold cloud security standards.
• Communicate with senior staff and non-technical users.
• Apply Terraform and GitLab workflows across environments.

Skills

Cloud architecture

FedRAMP

Terraform

GitLab CI

Kubernetes

VPC design

CIS benchmarks

Multi-cloud

Security focus

Tools

Git

GitLab

RHEL

Job description

Location: Washington, DC Salary: $90.00 USD Hourly – $100.00 USD Hourly Description: The Judge Group is currently seeking a Cloud Solution Architect to support a large federal agency in Washington, DC. This position is onsite five days/week.

Duties

• Set up and configure multi-cloud automation tools and continuous integration pipelines
• for end-to-end Infrastructure as Code and DevOps cycles
• Develop and operationalize cloud solution architectures that are highly available and
• resilient by utilizing best practices in systems engineering, network engineering, and
• multi-region and multi-account design strategies with a strong security focus to include
• boundary protection, data protection, and enterprise grade management services with
• strong operational SLA’s
• Develop cyber and operations governance for an automated, containerized, self-service
• multi- cloud platform
• Work with House Cyber Security to foster all aspects of the cloud environments up to security
• standards
• Re-architect and migrate mission critical enterprise systems to public cloud environments
• Communicate both orally and in writing with senior staff, information systems
• professionals, and the non-technical user community
• Other technology and organizational duties as assigned

Experience Requirements

• 5 years of designing enterprise cloud environments, including FedRAMP certified platforms
• 5 years of re-architecting and launching major workloads in the public cloud
• 5 years of software engineering, solutions architecture, or network systems
• engineering to include modeling tools

Candidates must be able to:

• Establish cyber and operations governance for the multi-cloud strategy
• Effectively use at least two major cloud service providers, such as Amazon Web
• Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform
• Effectively use multi-cloud tools, such as Terraform, including writing module code and
• applying best git workflow practices
• Set up and use continuous integration tools, such as GitLab
• Make cloud environments compliant with industry security standards, such as Center for
• Internet Security (CIS) benchmarks
• Administer systems with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Microsoft Windows operating systems
• Design cloud networks, including Virtual Private Networks (VPN), Virtual Private
• Clouds (VPC), subnets, and firewall rules
• Set up and operate Kubernetes clusters
• Candidates should be flexible enough to work a diversified schedule at all data center locations and participate in 24×7 on‑call technical support.

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