[Hiring] Senior Cloud Architect Lead with AI Cloud @SAIC

Role Description

SAIC is seeking a Senior Cloud Architect with AI Cloud to support a transformational infrastructure program for the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA). This position is remote with limited travel.

• Serve as a cloud architecture leader, providing guidance and mentorship to team members.
• Design and deliver secure, compliant workloads within a platform-managed hub-and-spoke environment across AWS GovCloud and Azure Government.
• Integrate advancements in AI Cloud capabilities for enhanced mission impact.
• Architect and deliver secure, scalable AWS-centric solutions with multi-cloud fluency across Azure Government/GCP.
• Be well-versed in platform management constructs to facilitate design discussions and articulate workload requirements.
• Operate as a liaison between mission teams, leadership, and platform providers.
• Ensure workload strategies align with programmatic, operational, and compliance goals.
• Translate complex requirements into practical architectures while balancing compliance with DoD operational constraints.

Qualifications

• Experience in cloud architecture and deployment.
• Strong understanding of AI/ML technologies and their application in cloud environments.
• Proven leadership and team management skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration abilities.

Requirements

• Mentor and manage team members involved in workload architecture and cloud deployment.
• Define and communicate workload requirements for routing, firewall/inspection, DNS, identity trust, logging/telemetry, secrets, and egress.
• Manage cross-functional teams and discussions to ensure alignment between workload needs and platform provisioning.
• Drive the creation of workload reference architectures and IaC templates.
• Lead the team in implementing secure network zoning and service exposure.
• Map workload data and mission needs to SRG IL2–IL6 and engineer control implementations.
• Lead collaboration efforts with external vendors and industry solution providers.
• Define and manage workload resilience strategies, including Multi-AZ/Region configurations.

Benefits

• Opportunity to work on mission-critical projects.
• Remote work flexibility with limited travel.
• Competitive salary and benefits package.

Company Description

SAIC is a premier mission integrator focused on advancing the power of technology and innovation to serve and protect our world. We integrate emerging technology into mission-critical operations that modernize and enable critical national imperatives.

• Approximately 23,000 employees.
• Annual revenues of approximately $7.3 billion.
• Equal Opportunity Employer.