Principal Cloud Architect

M9 Solutions is seeking a Principal Cloud Architect to work remotely in support of a government contract for a client located in Washington, DC. An active Secret clearance is required.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture and design of secure, scalable cloud environments supporting enterprise workloads.
• Develop reference architectures and engineering standards for cloud infrastructure deployments.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to implement infrastructure automation and deployment frameworks.
• Guide modernization efforts involving legacy infrastructure migration to cloud environments.
• Provide architectural oversight across networking, identity management, and security controls.
• Ensure cloud solutions align with federal security frameworks and best practices.
• Participate in technical strategy discussions with program leadership and customer stakeholders.
• Review engineering designs to ensure performance, resiliency, and operational readiness.
• Provide mentorship and technical leadership to cloud engineers and systems engineers.
• Support proposal development, technical planning, and architecture documentation as required.
• Lead design and implementation of OCI environments using a mature Infrastructure-as-Code platform.

Required Skills and Qualifications

• Active Secret Clearance.
• 12+ years of experience in enterprise IT infrastructure or cloud engineering.
• 5+ years of experience designing large-scale cloud architectures.
• Strong experience with cloud networking, security architecture, and infrastructure design.
• Demonstrated experience leading architecture efforts for complex enterprise environments.
• Strong understanding of cloud security principles and federal compliance environments.
• Experience designing resilient, scalable, and secure cloud infrastructure platforms.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong expertise in Terraform and Terragrunt for infrastructure provisioning and orchestration, along with Ansible for configuration management automation.
• Periodic travel to customer locations.

Preferred Skills and Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
• Experience supporting federal or defense-related IT programs.
• Familiarity with compliance frameworks such as NIST 800-53 and FedRAMP.
• Experience designing multi-region or high-availability cloud architectures.
• Background supporting infrastructure modernization or cloud migration initiatives.
• Experience mentoring engineering teams and leading architecture reviews.