Senior Cloud Architect – Multi-Cloud Strategy

Saic; Chantilly (VA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

SAIC is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to join a National Intelligence program, guiding Government IT teams on multi-cloud design and migration aligned to mission requirements. You will help shape future technology and architectural strategy across cloud providers, ensuring scalable, cost-conscious solutions.

The role emphasizes cloud-agnostic advisory, data modeling, and policy-aligned architecture with emphasis on AWS, Azure, GCP, IBM, and OCI platforms. TS/SCI with polygraph is required.

Qualifications

• US citizen required.
• Active TS/SCI with Polygraph required.
• Bachelor’s degree with 9+ years, Master’s with 7+ years, or PhD/JD with 4+ years of experience.
• 5+ years in cloud or hybrid environments (4 years in lieu of degree).
• 5+ years in IaaS/PaaS/SaaS, multi-cloud design/deployment, and large-scale data arch; data governance and metadata management.

Responsibilities

• Advise senior personnel on robust, scalable cloud architectures that meet mission requirements.
• Act as cloud-agnostic advocate and educate Government customers on suitable cloud services.
• Provide advisory services to evolve multi-cloud architectures and optimize cost, consumption, and performance across CSPs.
• Develop baseline multi-cloud architecture methodology for the C2E ecosystem.
• Support data models, dictionaries, maps, and other architecture artifacts across the enterprise.
• Design cloud solutions aligned with applicable policies, standards, and practices.
• Offer creative architectural solutions to ill-defined requirements.
• Assess impact of scope changes on future architectures.

Skills

US Citizenship

TS/SCI with Poly

Cloud experience

Cross-cloud architecture

Customer collaboration

Communication

Education

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

Cloud related Certifications

Tools

AWS/Azure/GCP/IBM/OCI

Job description

SAIC is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to join a National Intelligence program, guiding Government IT teams on multi-cloud design and migration aligned to mission requirements. You will help shape future technology and architectural strategy across cloud providers, ensuring scalable, cost-conscious solutions.

The role emphasizes cloud-agnostic advisory, data modeling, and policy-aligned architecture with emphasis on AWS, Azure, GCP, IBM, and OCI platforms. TS/SCI with polygraph is required.