Cloud Architect
Fairfax, VA
Full Time
Experienced
Cloud Architect
Active Secret Preferred
Hybrid-within commutable distance to Northern VA/DCA
Nationwide IT Services, NIS, is seeking a Cloud Architect for the following potential opportunity:
Preferred Qualifications:
About Nationwide IT Services
NIS is an IT and Management consulting company that is a CVE-verified Service-Disabled Veteran- Owned Small Business. Our mission is to deliver value-added services to our customers, leveraging technology, people, and industry best practices to implement innovative solutions through our trusted employees and team members.
Our benefits package includes medical, dental, and vision insurance, life and disability insurance, 401(k) plan with employer match, paid holidays, PTO (sick/vacation), commuter benefits, employee assistance program (EAP), and educational reimbursement, along with Pet Insurance.
Nationwide IT Services, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all qualified applicants regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetics, disability, or protected veteran status.
Active Secret Preferred
Hybrid-within commutable distance to Northern VA/DCA
Nationwide IT Services, NIS, is seeking a Cloud Architect for the following potential opportunity:
- Lead architecture and design of enterprise cloud solutions, emphasizing AWS GovCloud, to support classified, controlled unclassified, and regulated workloads.
- Develop high-availability, fault-tolerant, and secure multi-tier architectures using: AWS GovCloud core services (VPC, IAM, Lambda, S3, CloudFront, etc.), Container services including Amazon ECS with Fargate, Docker container lifecycle and orchestration patterns, Amazon RDS (Oracle).
- Script resources in AWS CloudFormation for automated deployment and pipeline integration.
- Define application modernization strategies leveraging microservices and containerization.
- Incorporate security requirements into architecture (e.g., IAM least privilege, encryption at rest/in transit, logging/monitoring).
- Ensure cloud infrastructure complies with government regulations and frameworks such as: FedRAMP Moderate/High, FISMA, DoD Cloud Computing Security Requirements Guide (SRG)
- Collaborate with security and DevSecOps teams to implement Continuous Security Validation and automated compliance checks.
- Translate architecture designs into implementation plans and technical documentation.
- Define patterns for service discovery, load balancing, scaling, and resilience within container environments.
- Review design artifacts, code, and technical documentation for quality and best practices.
- Implement performance monitoring, alerting, and operational dashboards.
- Conduct periodic architecture reviews to optimize cost and performance.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Active Secret Clearance Preferred
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Information Systems
- 8+ years of experience in cloud computing and AWS architecture and implementation.
- AWS Certification (Solutions Architect Professional, AWS DevOps Engineer, or equivalent) strongly preferred.
- Experience with Kubernetes (EKS) as a complementary platform.
About Nationwide IT Services
NIS is an IT and Management consulting company that is a CVE-verified Service-Disabled Veteran- Owned Small Business. Our mission is to deliver value-added services to our customers, leveraging technology, people, and industry best practices to implement innovative solutions through our trusted employees and team members.
Our benefits package includes medical, dental, and vision insurance, life and disability insurance, 401(k) plan with employer match, paid holidays, PTO (sick/vacation), commuter benefits, employee assistance program (EAP), and educational reimbursement, along with Pet Insurance.
Nationwide IT Services, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all qualified applicants regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetics, disability, or protected veteran status.
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