Senior Cloud Security Architect — FedRAMP Expert

Coalfire; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 109,000 - 182,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid parental leave

Flexible time off

Certification and training reimburse

Digital mental health and wellbeing

Comprehensive insurance options

Job summary

Coalfire is seeking a Principal Cloud Engineer to lead FedRAMP reference architectures across AWS, Azure, and GCP in the Washington, DC area. This senior individual-contributor role emphasizes design authority, architecture standards, and scalable delivery.

You will mentor engineers and collaborate with delivery and sales teams to craft strategic security solutions. The role requires 10+ years in cloud security engineering, hands-on FedRAMP experience, and cloud platform certifications, with a

Qualifications

• BS or above in a related Information Technology field or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 10+ years in cloud security engineering and architecture, including principal- or staff-level scope.
• Hands-on FedRAMP authorization experience building, operating, or assessing FedRAMP environments.
• Demonstrated design-authority experience owning standards and documenting decisions.
• Fluency with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform or equivalent), CI/CD, policy-as-code, and compliance automation.
• Experience with AWS, Azure, and/or GCP; knowledge of NIST 800-53 and FedRAMP control framework.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical integrity of FedRAMP reference architectures across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
• Set engineering standards, architecture patterns, security baselines, and evidence-collection approaches.
• Review and approve custom architecture decisions and promote improvements to reference architecture.
• Serve as a technical escalation point for architecture and security design questions.
• Keep reference architectures current with evolving FedRAMP requirements and OSCAL/JSON packaging.
• Mentor engagement architects and senior engineers; raise the technical bar across delivery.
• Partner with sales on solution shape for strategic pursuits; represent Coalfire in FedRAMP forums.

Skills

Cloud security engineering

Architecture leadership

Terraform

CI/CD

Compliance automation

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/CS or equivalent

Tools

Terraform

CI/CD tooling

Policy-as-code

Job description

Coalfire is seeking a Principal Cloud Engineer to lead FedRAMP reference architectures across AWS, Azure, and GCP in the Washington, DC area. This senior individual-contributor role emphasizes design authority, architecture standards, and scalable delivery.

You will mentor engineers and collaborate with delivery and sales teams to craft strategic security solutions. The role requires 10+ years in cloud security engineering, hands-on FedRAMP experience, and cloud platform certifications, with a