Senior Cloud Architect - FedRAMP & Multi-Cloud Lead

Socket.dev; Bethesda (MD); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k)

Paid time off

Professional development

Job summary

Avyanna LLC in Bethesda, MD is seeking a Lead Cloud Engineer to provide technical leadership for cloud design, migration, and operations on a large-scale federal IT program. This senior role guides cloud strategy, mentors engineers, and acts as the technical authority for multi-cloud environments operating under FedRAMP and FISMA requirements.

This position requires extensive federal cloud experience, strong leadership, and relevant certifications.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 10+ years IT engineering with 5+ years cloud-focused federal experience.
• Proven experience leading enterprise-scale cloud architecture and migration programs.
• Active AWS Solutions Architect Professional or Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification.
• Deep IaC, cloud networking, identity federation, and security architecture expertise.
• Strong FedRAMP, NIST 800-53 knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead cloud architecture strategy across AWS GovCloud and Azure Government.
• Oversee cloud migration initiatives — assess on-premises workloads, develop migration wave plans, and lead execution across application, database, and infrastructure teams.
• Establish and enforce cloud engineering standards: IaC conventions, tagging policies, security baselines, and operational runbooks.
• Lead cloud cost optimization initiatives: Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, workload right-sizing, and showback/chargeback reporting.
• Serve as escalation point for cloud incidents; lead root cause analysis and post-incident reviews.
• Collaborate with security teams to maintain FedRAMP authorization boundaries; support continuous monitoring and ATO renewals.
• Mentor and provide technical oversight to a team of cloud engineers; conduct design reviews and enforce engineering quality standards.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Leadership

Federal IT programs

Migration programs

Security architecture

NIST 800-53

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform

AWS GovCloud

Azure Government

Identity federation

Networking

Job description

Avyanna LLC in Bethesda, MD is seeking a Lead Cloud Engineer to provide technical leadership for cloud design, migration, and operations on a large-scale federal IT program. This senior role guides cloud strategy, mentors engineers, and acts as the technical authority for multi-cloud environments operating under FedRAMP and FISMA requirements.

This position requires extensive federal cloud experience, strong leadership, and relevant certifications.