Cloud Architect

CALIBRE Systems, Inc., an employee-owned mission focused solutions and digital transformation company, is looking for a highly motivated Senior Cloud Architect to join our dynamic team supporting a federal client. This role requires an innovative and collaborative mindset, with the ability to work closely with designers, back-end engineers, and business stakeholders to deliver high-quality, scalable digital solutions. With the requirement of a security clearance, CALIBRE will not be sponsoring for this position.

This is a remote opportunity.

The budget for this role is $200-225K per year.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Work directly with government clients to understand mission objectives and IT modernization goals
• Assess current-state systems, applications, and infrastructure to identify technical gaps and modernization opportunities
• Design cloud and hybrid cloud architectures that meet functional, security, and compliance requirements
• Develop and evaluate application modernization and cloud migration strategies
• Provide hands-on technical guidance during implementation, including architecture reviews, design decisions, and troubleshooting
• Support cloud migration and modernization efforts to ensure alignment with defined objectives, timelines, and constraints
• Contribute to the development and application of standards, patterns, and best practices for cloud adoption and application modernization
• Collaborate with engineers, security teams, and program leadership to ensure solutions are practical, secure, and supportable

Required Skills:

• Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Strong understanding of systems, network, and application architecture
• Excellent communication skills for conveying technical insights to non-technical stakeholders
• Basic working knowledge (i.e., ability to understand, speak about, and participate in solutioning) of the following domains:
  Data privacy (specifically PII/PHI), data science, the software development life cycle, federal data policies, the Tricare Military Health System.

• Bachelor’s degreein Computer Science or related field
• 8+ years of experience in information technology, systems engineering, or architecture roles
• 3+ years of hands‑on experience with cloud platforms and application modernization or migration efforts
• AWS Cloud Practitioner certification or equivalent foundational cloud knowledge
• AWS Associate or Professional-level certifications (Solutions Architect and/or Dev Ops Engineer)
• Experience supporting federal government clients, including familiarity with security, compliance, and accreditation considerations
• Experience working closely with delivery teams in an implementation or engineering capacity
• Demonstrated experience working with Federal healthcare agencies, Federal healthcare data, and/or data containing PII/PHI
• Active Secret Clearance at the Department of Defense (or eligibility to obtain a clearance)
• Ability to work east coast business hours (8am-5pm)
• Active Security+ certification