Cloud Architect, Senior
Booz Allen Hamilton4 days ago
Base Salary
$87k - $198k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design cloud-based technical architectures that meet client needs and leverage current cloud capabilities.
- Recommend tools and solutions across on-premises, cloud-based, and hybrid environments.
- Design pragmatic migration paths that keep systems operational during transformation.
- Lead technical transformations, infrastructure modernization, rapid prototyping, and incremental delivery.
- Develop ROI models and make recommendations regarding cloud implementations and cost optimization.
- Lead a technical team supporting clients through complex cloud challenges.
- Communicate architecture and strategy across cloud consultants, mission developers, security teams, and executives.
Requirements
- Experience building complex enterprise infrastructure using systems engineering principles.
- Experience with production AWS or cloud architecture.
- Experience with infrastructure modernization, technical transformations, ROI models, and incremental migration.
- Knowledge of cloud economics, VPC design, storage tiers, compute options, and security controls.
- Knowledge of agency-specific cloud migration requirements, including ATO and WANDS environments.
- TS/SCI clearance with polygraph.
- Bachelor's degree and 12+ years of cloud experience, or 16+ years of cloud experience in lieu of a degree.
- Preferred experience with CNO spaces, high-side environments, CNO development, cost optimization, FinOps practices, restricted environments, and infrastructure priorities.
- Strong technical communication and stakeholder-management skills.
Benefits
- Health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits.
- Paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care.
- Recognition awards for exceptional performance and demonstration of company values.
- Onsite work in Laurel, Maryland; the position is not remote.
- Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours per week on a regular basis are eligible for Booz Allen benefit programs.
About Booz Allen Hamilton
Booz Allen Hamilton builds and integrates software, analytics, AI, cloud, and cybersecurity solutions while providing engineering and consulting services, primarily for U.S. defense, intelligence, and civil government clients, with select commercial partnerships. Its business is largely government contracting and professional services delivering mission systems and cyber defense. Founded in 1914 and headquartered in McLean, Virginia, Booz Allen is a public company traded on the NYSE (ticker: BAH).