Senior Cloud Architect — AWS, SRE & Federal Solutions

REI Systems; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

REI Systems is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to design, implement, and optimize secure, cost-effective cloud infrastructure for Federal environments. You will independently lead cloud initiatives from concept to delivery, collaborating across teams to meet mission-critical objectives in a compliant, multi-vendor landscape.

Responsibilities include evaluating on-premises-to-cloud migrations, building cloud-native architectures, and enforcing security and cost controls using AWS services and IaC

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional cloud engineering experience across multiple project phases.
• 5+ years hands-on AWS experience including services such as EKS, ECS, S3, KMS, Secrets Manager, API Gateway, CloudFront, VPC, EC2, RDS, SQS, SNS, Security Groups, and NACLs.
• Demonstrated ability to independently lead cloud projects end-to-end with minimal supervision.
• Experience designing highly available systems using load balancing, horizontal scalability, and fault-tolerant architecture.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, implementation, and optimization of secure, cost-effective cloud infrastructure for Federal environments.
• Drive migration planning from on-premises to cloud with documented current/target-state architectures.
• Design cloud-native architectures compliant with Federal security requirements.
• Develop cost-optimization strategies using AWS tooling like Trusted Advisor and Cost Explorer.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate platform requirements into scalable cloud solutions.

Skills

Cloud & Infra

AWS Experience

End-to-end Leadership

HA Design

Programming Languages

Tools

Terraform

Terragrunt

Ansible

CloudFormation

Docker

Kubernetes

YAML

Job description

REI Systems is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to design, implement, and optimize secure, cost-effective cloud infrastructure for Federal environments. You will independently lead cloud initiatives from concept to delivery, collaborating across teams to meet mission-critical objectives in a compliant, multi-vendor landscape.

Responsibilities include evaluating on-premises-to-cloud migrations, building cloud-native architectures, and enforcing security and cost controls using AWS services and IaC