Senior Cloud Architect – Hybrid, SecOps & AI-Driven

Eliassen Group; United States; Hybrid; USD 83,000 - 96,000; Full time

Job summary

Eliassen Group seeks a Systems Engineer with deep cloud-architecture expertise to guide design across hybrid on‑prem to AWS environments. You will influence architecture, security, and verification in regulated contexts, collaborating in Scaled Agile teams and contributing to AI‑assisted engineering efforts.

Must have hands-on experience with ECS/EKS/OpenShift, GovCloud, and multi‑account AWS designs, plus strong security and networking skills. W2 employment with competitive benefits available.

Qualifications

• Cloud architecture and technical planning for hybrid on‑prem to AWS systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical planning and cloud architecture for hybrid on‑prem to AWS designs across VPCs, GovCloud and commercial regions, and multiple clusters.
• Conduct platform trade studies and sizing for ECS, EKS, and OpenShift with cost and effort modeling across Dev, Test, and Ops environments.
• Drive integration, verification and validation, and fielding within FISMA High boundaries, including cutover to GovCloud.
• Design security architecture including trust boundaries, segmentation, and control mapping to SSP and ATO boundaries.
• Engineer networking patterns including ALB, WAF, routes and ingress, PrivateLink and endpoints, and Zscaler or PIV considerations.
• Own requirements development and analysis, technical writing, and authoring of technical papers and white papers.
• Provide system and software design guidance to developers and testers within Scaled Agile teams.
• Lead hardware and software integration and cloud system design for Java and microservices ecosystems.
• Apply DevSecOps practices, CI/CD, security scanning, SBOM, image signing, secrets management, and policy as code.
• Incorporate AI for coding, requirements, test creation, debugging, and analysis, including AI-driven test script generation.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Technical planning

Hybrid cloud

Scaled Agile

Security architecture

DevSecOps

AI-assisted engineering

Team collaboration

V&V

Java ecosystems

Tools

Amazon ECS

Amazon EKS

OpenShift

Kubernetes

Helm

GitLab

Tekton

Argo CD

SAST

DAST

SCA

SBOM

image signing

secrets management

Job description

Eliassen Group seeks a Systems Engineer with deep cloud-architecture expertise to guide design across hybrid on‑prem to AWS environments. You will influence architecture, security, and verification in regulated contexts, collaborating in Scaled Agile teams and contributing to AI‑assisted engineering efforts.

Must have hands-on experience with ECS/EKS/OpenShift, GovCloud, and multi‑account AWS designs, plus strong security and networking skills. W2 employment with competitive benefits available.