Senior Principal Cloud Architect
SAIC · San Diego, California, United States
Defense and Space Manufacturing · 10,001+ employees
About the role
The Senior Principal Cloud Architect will lead the design, implementation, and modernization of secure, scalable cloud solutions for complex government programs. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure cloud architectures align with enterprise data strategies, security requirements, and mission-critical objectives.
What they look for
Requirements
Candidates must possess a Bachelor's degree and at least 14 years of relevant experience, along with the ability to obtain a Secret security clearance. Proficiency in AWS cloud engineering, infrastructure automation, and government compliance standards is essential for this role.
Full description
SAIC is seeking a Senior Principal Cloud Architect in San Diego, CA. The successful candidate initiates, supervises, and/or develops requirements from a project’s inception to conclusion for complex programs. Provides strategic advice, technical guidance and expertise to program and project staff. Provides detailed analysis, evaluation and recommendations for improvements, optimization development, and/or maintenance efforts for client-specific or mission critical challenges/issues.
This is a remote role in San Diego, CA but must be local to area due to onsite needs, up to 10% of travel involved in this role.
JOB DUTIES:
- Providing technical leadership and hands-on development and implementation of commercial cloud solution architectures that modernize the way our customers architect, deploy, and use cloud technology, focusing on security, scalability, and resiliency.
- Planning, designing, and managing the migration, re-platforming, integration, implementation and operation of complex cloud environments.
- Communicating, defining, administering, and implementing various security processes and assist with the transformation of platforms.
- Ensuring commercial cloud service offerings (CSO) adhere to DoD Cloud Computing policy/guidelines.
- Providing specific, detailed information for hardware and software selection, cloud service provider selection, implementation techniques, application data migration techniques and tools for the most efficient solution to meet business needs, including present and future capacity requirements.
- Developing and conducting testing of cloud and virtualization systems.
- Maintaining technical expertise relevant industry standards and in cloud computing and virtualization technologies such as cloud service provider architecture, design, and configuration; cloud deployment models including public, community, private, and hybrid; cloud service delivery models including infrastructure-, platform-, and software-as-a-service; automation; hypervisors; containers; virtual compute, storage, and networks; virtual infrastructure management; self-provisioning; and scaling.
- Evaluating and reporting on new cloud and virtualization technologies to enhance capabilities of cloud-based and virtualized services.
- Participating with senior managers to establish strategic plans and objectives.
- Design and implement secure, scalable cloud infrastructure that supports enterprise data platforms, shared data services, analytics workloads, and AI/ML development environments.
- Collaborate with software engineering, data engineering, and data science teams to ensure cloud architectures align with enterprise data strategy, governance, security, and operational requirements.
SAIC® is a premier mission integrator focused on advancing the power of technology and innovation to serve and protect our world. Our robust portfolio of offerings across the defense, space, intelligence, and civilian markets includes secure high-end solutions in mission IT, enterprise IT, engineering services, and professional services. We integrate emerging technology, rapidly and securely, into mission critical operations that modernize and enable critical national imperatives.
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