Senior Cloud Architect – DoD IL5/IL6, Secure & Scalable

Booz Allen Hamilton; Albuquerque (NM); On-site; USD 113,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Booz Allen Hamilton is seeking a Lead Cloud Computing Architect to serve as the technical authority for both classified and unclassified cloud environments, including DoD IL5 and IL6 AWS or Azure platforms.

Lead the design of secure, scalable, resilient, and supportable cloud architectures, landing zones, IAM, networking, compute, storage, encryption, logging, monitoring, backup, disaster recovery, and security controls.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience architecting, designing, deploying, and modernizing enterprise cloud environments using AWS or Microsoft Azure
• 5+ years of experience designing or supporting DoD classified, disconnected, restricted, or air-gapped environments, including IL6 cloud environments
• 5+ years of experience leading cloud architecture efforts and providing technical direction to cloud engineers, DevSecOps engineers, and operations personnel
• 5+ years of experience designing cloud landing zones, identity and access management, network segmentation, compute, storage, encryption, logging, monitoring, backup, and disaster-recovery capabilities
• 3+ years of experience developing cloud architecture artifacts, design patterns, technical roadmaps, and implementation guidance
• 3+ years of experience supporting DoD RMF, ATO, security-control implementation, and accreditation activities
• Experience designing highly available, resilient, and secure cloud solutions for mission-critical production systems
• Top Secret clearance
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or Cybersecurity
• Security+ CE Certification

Responsibilities

• Lead the design of secure, scalable cloud architectures for classified environments
• Translate mission, cybersecurity, and operational requirements into approved architecture patterns and roadmaps
• Collaborate with cybersecurity, DevSecOps, Cloud Operations, application and government stakeholders to support RMF and ATO
• Lead cloud architects and engineers through design, modernization, and deployment of mission-critical systems and applications
• Ensure proposed architectures account for service limitations, connectivity requirements, and operational constraints in classified environments
• Guide solutions from architecture into production operations

Skills

8+ years cloud architecture experience

5+ years DoD IL6 environments

5+ years leading cloud architecture

5+ years landing zones IAM networking

3+ years architecture artifacts road-m

3+ years RMF/ATO experience

Security-focused design

Top Secret clearance

Bachelor’s degree in CS/IT/Engineering

Security+ CE Certification

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or Cybersecurity

Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Cybersecurity, or related field

Tools

AWS

Azure

Kubernetes

EKS

Terraform

CloudFormation

Bicep

Ansible

Job description

Booz Allen Hamilton is seeking a Lead Cloud Computing Architect to serve as the technical authority for both classified and unclassified cloud environments, including DoD IL5 and IL6 AWS or Azure platforms.

Lead the design of secure, scalable, resilient, and supportable cloud architectures, landing zones, IAM, networking, compute, storage, encryption, logging, monitoring, backup, disaster recovery, and security controls.