Senior Cloud Architect

Fusion Innovation; Chantilly (VA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Fusion Innovation in Chantilly, VA, seeks a Senior Cloud Architect to lead AWS-based design and deployment across multi-account, multi-environment setups, including on-premises VMware.

You will drive IaC with Terraform, establish secure-by-default architectures, implement landing zones, and collaborate with security, networking, and application teams to enable reliable, scalable infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Experience designing reference architectures across AWS and hybrid on-prem environments.
• Ability to define scalable deployment patterns for multi-account and multi-environment setups.
• Knowledge of AWS landing zones, guardrails, logging, tagging, governance, and cost controls.
• Hands-on experience building Terraform modules for production AWS environments.
• Familiarity with VPCs, IAM roles/policies, load balancing, and related AWS services.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement reference architectures for AWS and hybrid environments.
• Define scalable deployment patterns for multi-account, multi-region architectures.
• Establish standardized AWS landing-zone practices including security guardrails and logging.
• Build and maintain Terraform modules for production AWS environments.
• Develop infrastructure patterns for VPCs, IAM, logging, and compute resources.
• Architect and support VMware/vSphere-based on-premises compute fleets.

Skills

AWS architecture

Hybrid cloud

Security by design

IAM & security

CI/CD

Git workflows

Tools

Terraform

VMware/vSphere

Git

Job description

Fusion Innovation's recent growth has earned us a top spot in the Inc 5000 Fastest Growing Private Companies in America and in Washington Business Journal's Best Places to Work multiple years in a row. Our team members are passionate about their work and are empowered to contribute their unique skills and perspectives to our projects. Here at Fusion, we put people first. When you join us, you don't just join a company, you join a family. If you are ready to be part of a fun and engaging team where your innovative ideas are heard, supported, and make ever lasting mission impacts for our Nation's most sensitive programs, you have come to the right place.

Position Overview

Fusion Innovation is seeking a Senior Cloud Architect to design, build, and evolve a large-scale, globally distributed mission system operating across AWS cloud environments and on-premises virtualized infrastructure. In this role, you will lead the architecture and implementation of secure, repeatable Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) patterns supporting compute fleets, network connectivity, storage, and platform services across development, test, staging, production, and lab environments. The ideal candidate combines deep AWS architecture expertise with hands‑on Terraform experience and a strong understanding of hybrid infrastructure. You will collaborate closely with engineering, operations, security, networking, and application teams to improve reliability, standardize deployments, strengthen security, and accelerate delivery through automation.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement reference architectures for AWS and hybrid cloud/on-premises environments.

• Define scalable deployment patterns for multi-account and multi-environment separation, network segmentation, compute, and storage.

• Establish standardized AWS landing-zone practices, including account structures, security guardrails, centralized logging, tagging, governance, and cost controls.

• Build and maintain reusable Terraform modules and Infrastructure-as-Code patterns for production AWS environments.

• Develop infrastructure patterns supporting VPCs, IAM roles and policies, load balancing, logging, compute, storage, and related AWS services.

• Architect and support virtualized compute fleets using VMware/vSphere for on-premises environments.

• Establish and maintain patterns for golden images, patching baselines, provisioning workflows, and infrastructure lifecycle management.

• Partner with cybersecurity teams to implement secure-by-design architectures incorporating least-privilege IAM, encryption, network controls, and centralized audit logging.

• Design resilient infrastructure incorporating backup and restore strategies, disaster recovery considerations, and multi-Availability Zone patterns.

• Support CI/CD automation for infrastructure deployments using Git-based workflows integrated with Terraform planning and deployment processes.

• Collaborate with application teams to establish standardized environments and reusable deployment blueprints.

• Translate technical and mission requirements into scalable, secure, maintainable architecture solutions.

• Provide hands-on technical guidance throughout implementation and deployment.

• Produce and maintain architecture documentation, including logical and physical diagrams, environment definitions, deployment standards, and as-built artifacts.