Remote Senior Cloud Architect - Federal Cloud, HA/DR Expert

Piper Companies; United States; Remote; USD 125,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Zachary Piper Solutions seeks a Senior Cloud Architect to support a long-term federal program. This 100% remote role focuses on cloud infrastructure, virtualization, high availability, disaster recovery, and integration of cloud-based services across private and FedRAMP-approved commercial providers.

You will design and implement scalable cloud architectures, monitor resources, and collaborate with engineering, cybersecurity, DevOps, and operations teams to ensure performance, security, and

Qualifications

• 7+ years of related professional experience.
• 5+ years virtualization and cloud technologies and platforms.
• 3+ years HA/DR solutions experience.
• Hands-on cloud computing experience.
• Experience with Web Services, APIs, and REST.
• Strong documentation and architecture design skills.
• CompTIA Cloud+ certification or IAM I readiness.
• Experience with FedRAMP/DoD federal environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, configure, and optimize cloud-based infrastructure, platforms, applications, data, and services.
• Manage and monitor cloud resources for performance, availability, reliability and interaction between apps.
• Leverage major cloud provider technologies and private clouds for enterprise and federal environments.
• Design scalable, resilient cloud architectures aligned with requirements.
• Support cloud migrations, modernization efforts, and integration of services.
• Develop technical designs, architecture diagrams, and operational procedures.
• Collaborate with engineering, infrastructure, cybersecurity, DevOps and operations teams.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Communication

Team collaboration

Education

High School Diploma or equivalent

CompTIA Cloud+ certification

Tools

VMware

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

CloudFormation

Ansible

Job description

Zachary Piper Solutions seeks a Senior Cloud Architect to support a long-term federal program. This 100% remote role focuses on cloud infrastructure, virtualization, high availability, disaster recovery, and integration of cloud-based services across private and FedRAMP-approved commercial providers.

You will design and implement scalable cloud architectures, monitor resources, and collaborate with engineering, cybersecurity, DevOps, and operations teams to ensure performance, security, and