Cloud Architect

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The Cloud Architect serves as the principal technical authority for designing, planning, and overseeing the migration of business services and mission systems/applications from on-premises infrastructure to the established Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) on the Microsoft Azure-based sovereign cloud environment. This role is critical to the contract's objective: transitioning operations across unclassified and classified domains (NIPRNet, SIPRNet, and JWICS) utilizing remote desktop capabilities moving into the cloud, while maintaining uninterrupted on-premises operations throughout the migration.

The Cloud Architect must balance the dual mandate of sustaining current on-premises operations while architecting and executing a phased cloud migration that ramps cloud-specific skill sets from contract inception and levels off over the five-year timeframe. As on-premises personnel migrate to cloud roles or transition out, this position ensures the right skill sets are in place at the right time.

• Design and develop the end-to-end cloud migration architecture for transitioning NCIS on-premises systems to the Defense-centric Azure-based sovereign VPC across NIPR, SIPR, and JWICS domains.
• Conduct thorough assessment of existing on-premises systems, applications, databases, and infrastructure to develop detailed migration plans with phased timelines per network domain.
• Architect scalable, secure, and compliant cloud solutions that leverage DON Nautilus capabilities, ensuring alignment with DoD, Navy, and IC directives, policies, and reference architectures.
• Design cloud-native architectures incorporating high availability, disaster recovery, data security, micro-segmentation, Zero Trust principles, and multi-factor authentication.
• Develop and maintain cloud migration and development documentation and plans.
• Ensure minimal disruption to operations during migration and provide post-migration support to optimize application performance, scalability, and security.

• Architect cloud-native applications and oversee migration of existing applications to the Azure VPC environment, ensuring scalability, security, and performance optimization.
• Define and enforce modern development practices including Agile methodologies, CI/CD pipelines, and containerization using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Architect the transition from on-premises Microsoft products (Outlook, SharePoint, MS Office, Visio) to cloud-based O365 products and capabilities including Power Apps, SharePoint Online, and InTune for mobile device management.
• Design integration patterns between cloud-based services and existing on-premises systems during the phased transition period.
• Support development of mission applications within the VPC environment, including account management, Service Desk integration, and cloud cost model management.

• Define and maintain the Enterprise Architecture across the NCIS Enterprise as it relates to cloud infrastructure, ensuring alignment with DoD Architecture Framework (DODAF) and approved EA frameworks such as TOGAF or Zachman.
• Develop and maintain technology standards and roadmaps across key cloud technology domains, evaluating emerging technologies based on mission requirements, operational effectiveness, and lifecycle cost.
• Develop and maintain architecture artifacts including modeling, diagrams, and documentation; update and maintain the NCIS repository for architecture artifacts.
• Support the Government in managing the full technology lifecycle from initial cloud adoption through sustainment and eventual on-premises decommissioning.
• Identify and promote adoption of emerging cloud technologies and innovative solutions; develop options for process improvement.

• Architect virtualization platform migrations from on-premises VMware to Azure cloud, ensuring high availability, performance, and scalability of virtualized infrastructure.
• Design cloud storage architectures to transition SAN/NAS infrastructure to cloud-based storage solutions, ensuring data integrity, recoverability, and compliance.
• Ensure all cloud architectures comply with ICD 505, Risk Management Framework (RMF), NIST standards, DISA STIGs, and Security Requirements Guides (SRGs).
• Architect cloud security controls including firewalls, IDS/IPS, endpoint detection and response (EDR), SIEM…