Senior Federal Cloud & DevSecOps Architect

Unissant; Bethesda (MD); On-site; USD 160,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Unissant, Inc. seeks a Cloud/DevSecOps Architect to join our team and support a federal client. The ideal candidate is a senior enterprise architect and technical leader with deep experience establishing technical strategy for cloud-native, secure applications.

This role will drive modernization, DevSecOps maturity, secure delivery, and architecture governance across a complex portfolio, providing hands-on guidance and mentorship to technical teams.

Qualifications

• Ten+ years of experience in enterprise systems architecture.
• Four+ years of cloud-native environments and DevSecOps pipelines in secure federal environments (FedRAMP Moderate or equivalent).
• Experience designing shared services across multi-application portfolios.
• Experience integrating security scanning and compliance checks into CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience evaluating AI-assisted development tooling.
• Experience providing technical leadership for cloud migration and modernization.
• Strong knowledge of cloud architecture, security, DevSecOps, IaC, and secure SDLC practices.
• Experience with regulated organizations (federal/healthcare/research) preferred.
• Familiarity with federal IT security and compliance requirements preferred.

Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain modernization roadmap across all enterprise systems.
• Enforce DevSecOps best practices, automated testing, and secure coding standards.
• Design shared services and reusable architectures to reduce duplication.
• Evaluate, recommend, and implement AI-assisted delivery tools in compliance.
• Ensure CI/CD pipelines are maintained with security scanning and compliance checks.
• Provide technical oversight of cloud migration and modernization activities.
• Serve as the primary technical advisor to the Program Manager and client stakeholders.
• Mentor technical leads and development teams on modern architecture patterns.
• Provide leadership for application modernization, cloud adoption, and governance.
• Identify and mitigate technical risks and architectural dependencies.
• Collaborate with leadership, cybersecurity, and stakeholders to align solutions.
• Develop and maintain architecture documentation, roadmaps, standards, and patterns.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Cloud modernization

DevSecOps pipelines

Security integration

Technical leadership

AI-assisted tooling

Cloud migration

Architecture governance

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree preferred

Tools

AWS

Azure

Google Cloud

Kubernetes

Job description

Unissant, Inc. seeks a Cloud/DevSecOps Architect to join our team and support a federal client. The ideal candidate is a senior enterprise architect and technical leader with deep experience establishing technical strategy for cloud-native, secure applications.

This role will drive modernization, DevSecOps maturity, secure delivery, and architecture governance across a complex portfolio, providing hands-on guidance and mentorship to technical teams.