Cloud DevOps Architect

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment workflows for a classified AWS cloud environment, ensuring rapid and reliable delivery of application updates and infrastructure changes
• Define and enforce DevOps standards across the team including branching strategies, code review practices, automated testing suites, and release management processes
• Architect and manage cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC), ensuring environments are reproducible, auditable, and compliant with Sponsor and federal requirements
• Lead integration of APIs, databases, and microservices to ensure seamless interoperability and performance for mission users
• Implement and maintain monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions using Splunk, Elasticsearch, and ServiceNow to provide full operational visibility and enable rapid incident response
• Embed automated security and compliance checks within the pipeline to support continuous ATO, RMF adherence, and federal compliance frameworks
• Partner with the IT PM, compliance officers, legal, and Sponsor stakeholders to translate mission requirements into automated, scalable technical solutions
• Drive system reliability through proactive performance tuning, infrastructure optimization, and automation of routine operational tasks
• Lead post-deployment operations including maintenance windows, patch management, feature enhancements, and incident response
• Mentor team members on DevOps best practices and foster a culture of automation-first engineering

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or higher in Information Technology, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field
• 3+ years of cumulative experience spanning IT systems administration, software development and integration, system testing, cybersecurity compliance, troubleshooting, and incident response
• 2+ years of experience in system administration of Sponsor Systems
• 6+ years of experience in application design, development, and deployment of classified IC systems of similar scope and complexity
• 4+ years of combined experience in Sponsor's Amazon Web Services environment (C2S or C2E) including cloud systems administration, containerization, cloud environment management, and compliance assessments
• Experience with SecDevOps tools including CI/CD pipelines, code repositories, and testing suites
• Experience providing troubleshooting support for IT systems within an IC environment
• AWS certification or equivalent cloud technology certification
• Experience with object-oriented programming languages, relational databases, NoSQL data solutions, software testing, and configuration management practices
• Experience using AWS operational status tools and implementing IT operations situational awareness using monitoring and logs such as Splunk dashboards, Elasticsearch, and ServiceNow
• TS/SCI with Polygraph

Desired Qualifications

• Experience with Agile requirements management and sprint planning for technical IT development teams
• Master's Degree in any of the above disciplines
• Security+, CISSP, or equivalent certification