Senior Cloud Architect – Secure AI Platform

clarityinnovates; Springfield (VA); On-site; USD 144,000 - 324,000; Full time

Job summary

Clarity Innovations seeks a Cloud Architect to lead the design of cloud and hybrid infrastructure supporting the team’s AI platform and DAG mission capabilities. You will ensure an environment that is scalable, resilient, secure, and cost-effective, aligned with the sponsor’s enterprise architecture and operating context.

You will collaborate with the AI/ML Architect, Platform Engineer, and Security Engineer to deploy AI workloads, automate infrastructure, and uphold security requirements in a

Qualifications

• Experience designing cloud architectures across AWS/Azure Gov clouds or similar government environments.
• Hands-on expertise with Kubernetes and containerized architectures in scalable, secure environments.
• Strong IaC practices using Terraform or equivalent tools with CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Design and guide cloud and hybrid infrastructure for AI platform and DAG capabilities.
• Ensure scalable, resilient, secure, and cost-effective environments aligned with sponsor EA and operating environment.
• Evaluate COTS/FOSS and government services; establish reusable infra patterns to enable continuous delivery.

Skills

Cloud architecture

AWS/Azure cloud

Kubernetes

Containerized apps

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform

Networking

VPC/VNet design

Identity & Access

Storage architectures

Compute architecture

High availability

Disaster recovery

Observability

Cost optimization

Hybrid cloud

On-prem/cloud integration

COTS/FOSS evaluation

Tools

Terraform

Job description

Clarity Innovations seeks a Cloud Architect to lead the design of cloud and hybrid infrastructure supporting the team’s AI platform and DAG mission capabilities. You will ensure an environment that is scalable, resilient, secure, and cost-effective, aligned with the sponsor’s enterprise architecture and operating context.

You will collaborate with the AI/ML Architect, Platform Engineer, and Security Engineer to deploy AI workloads, automate infrastructure, and uphold security requirements in a