Senior Cloud Architect

LMI seeks an experienced Senior Cloud Architect to lead cloud architecture design, implementation, and sustainment for the U.S. Army Center for Initial Military Training’s (CIMT) Holistic Health & Fitness (H2F) management System. The Senior Cloud Architect will design secure, scalable cloud solutions in an Army-approved cloud environment (AWS, Azure, or cARMY), ensuring compliance with DoW and Army cybersecurity policies.

Requirements

• Design, document, and implement the end-to-end cloud architecture supporting the CIMT H2F Application.
• Define environment topology (networks, VPC/VNet structure, IAM, routing, security groups, firewalls, service boundaries).
• Architect scalable compute, storage, networking, and data-processing components aligned with Army enterprise cloud requirements.
• Select and configure cloud-native services appropriate for IL2/IL4/IL5 environments.
• Ensure architecture aligns with RMF, Zero Trust, Army data-tagging requirements, and cATO frameworks.
• Collaborate with the ISSM/ISSO to develop system security documentation (SSP, SAR, POA&M materials).
• Implement and validate required cybersecurity controls and support continuous monitoring.
• Architect logging, SOC/SIEM integration, audit readiness, and vulnerability remediation workflows.
• Architect and support CI/CD pipelines, automated testing frameworks, and infrastructure-as-code (IaC) (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Ensure the environment supports secure deployment and integration of the vendor-developed application.
• Guide implementation of containerization (Docker), orchestration (Kubernetes/EKS/AKS), and automated scanning.
• Design cloud components that integrate with: the vendor-developed H2F application, the custom user interface (UI) built by LMI engineers, Army enterprise systems and data services.
• Support development of APIs, gateways, and identity/access management mechanisms (e.g., CAC, SSO, OAuth2, SAML).
• Work with data engineers to design secure data ingestion pipelines.
• Define data storage, encryption, retention, tagging, and access-layer architecture.
• Ensure the environment supports dashboards, analytics tools, and data products required by Human Performance specialists.
• Architect monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability systems (CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, ELK, Grafana, etc.).
• Define and implement backup/restore, failover, BC/DR, and environment hardening strategies.
• Support environment troubleshooting, incident response, and performance tuning.
• Provide senior-level technical leadership across a cross-functional Agile team.
• Mentor junior cloud engineers and guide architectural decision-making.
• Participate in sprint planning, technical backlog refinement, and architecture reviews.
• Translate stakeholder requirements into technical specifications and system designs.

Benefits

• Generous Paid Time Off
• 401k Matching
• Retirement Plan
• Visa Sponsorship
• Four Day Work Week
• Generous Parental Leave
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Relocation Assistance