Senior Cloud Platform Architect & Engineer

Fortis Industries, Inc. DBA - LTS, Inc.; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Fortis Industries, Inc. DBA - LTS, Inc.

seeks a Cloud Platform Architect/Engineer to lead end-to-end design, implementation, administration, security, and continuous improvement of enterprise cloud platforms for federal agency clients in Washington, DC. This role combines strategic architecture with hands-on engineering and operations, supporting CI/CD pipelines, IaC, data integrations, and security, to deliver scalable, resilient, and compliant cloud environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field.
• 8+ years designing, implementing, and supporting cloud-based systems.
• 5+ years in cloud architecture, engineering, or platform administration.
• Experience with federal government systems and compliance requirements.
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and automated deployments.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, implementation, administration, and optimization of cloud platforms and hosting environments.
• Develop and maintain cloud architecture roadmaps, standards, and design docs.
• Engineer, deploy, configure, and support cloud infrastructure, services, networking, databases.
• Provide day-to-day operational support, monitoring, incident response, and performance optimization.
• Ensure platform availability, scalability, resilience, and disaster recovery readiness.
• Design secure cloud architectures complying with cybersecurity requirements.
• Administer IAM, encryption, RBAC, and secure data management.
• Collaborate with development and DevSecOps teams on CI/CD and IaC.
• Design and maintain integrations among apps, databases, APIs, reporting platforms.
• Evaluate capacity, trends; implement infra improvements.
• Support deployments, migrations, upgrades, patching, releases.
• Conduct root-cause analyses and preventive actions.
• Maintain architecture diagrams, procedures, and configuration baselines.
• Participate in Agile planning, requirements, testing, and change control.
• Support security assessments, audits, and authorization packages.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring on cloud engineering best practices.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Cloud engineering

DevSecOps

Security compliance

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Job description

Fortis Industries, Inc. DBA - LTS, Inc.

seeks a Cloud Platform Architect/Engineer to lead end-to-end design, implementation, administration, security, and continuous improvement of enterprise cloud platforms for federal agency clients in Washington, DC. This role combines strategic architecture with hands-on engineering and operations, supporting CI/CD pipelines, IaC, data integrations, and security, to deliver scalable, resilient, and compliant cloud environments.