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Senior Cloud Solution Architect - Cloud & AI Infrastructure, Azure Government Cloud

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6 days ago
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Base Salary

$106k - $223k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build relationships with IT leaders and translate mission priorities into technical outcomes.
  • Design and implement Azure Government landing zones and hybrid foundations using CAF and WAF, including management groups, Azure Policy, RBAC, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, private connectivity, network segmentation, and automation.
  • Implement Microsoft Entra ID and Zero Trust identity and access patterns, including Conditional Access, PIM, privileged access, and cross-tenant scenarios.
  • Lead complex infrastructure engagements from discovery through implementation, production milestones, acceptance criteria, and operational handover.
  • Plan commercial-to-government migrations while accounting for service, feature, roadmap, and GCC High integration differences.
  • Partner with customer security and compliance teams on controls and evidence for FedRAMP, DoD IL2/IL4/IL5, NIST 800-53, CJIS, IRS 1075, and CMMC requirements.
  • Assess and deliver migrations across networking, security, compute, storage, and Kubernetes readiness, including monitoring, capacity, performance, backup, BCDR, cutover, and recovery validation.
  • Resolve technical blockers, manage delivery risks, coordinate escalations, and maintain workload health and operational readiness.
  • Enable approved AI workloads through sovereign deployment patterns and data controls, including Azure OpenAI only where approved and available.
  • Develop reusable templates, automation, delivery guidance, and community lessons while maintaining technical learning and certifications.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or a related field and 4+ years of experience in relevant architecture, infrastructure, security, modernization, consulting, administration, networking, development, or technology solution work, or equivalent experience.
  • U.S. citizenship is required and will be verified with a valid passport due to citizenship-based legal restrictions.
  • Preferred: 2+ years designing, implementing, or operating workloads in Azure Government or related environments, including Azure Government, GCC, GCC High, and DoD boundaries.
  • Preferred: hands-on experience with networking, hybrid connectivity, Microsoft Entra ID, Zero Trust, privileged access, automation, monitoring, recovery, and customer-facing delivery in regulated environments.
  • Preferred: awareness of FedRAMP, DoD IL2/IL4/IL5, NIST 800-53, CJIS, IRS 1075, and CMMC frameworks and customer ATO evidence requirements.
  • Preferred: experience with commercial-to-government infrastructure migration or GCC High integration.
  • Preferred: Azure architecture, administration, networking, or security certification.
  • Preferred: 4+ years of customer-facing experience.

Benefits

  • 100% remote flexibility.
  • Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.

Tech Stack

Categories

Solutions Engineering
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Microsoft develops operating systems, productivity software, cloud services, developer tools, and consumer devices for individuals, enterprises, and governments. Its main products include Windows, Microsoft 365, Azure, Visual Studio/GitHub, Xbox, and LinkedIn; revenue comes from software subscriptions and licenses, cloud consumption, hardware sales, and advertising. Founded in 1975 and headquartered in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft is a public company traded on Nasdaq.

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