Cloud Infrastructure and Storage Architect, SME

Job Description:

• Provide senior technical leadership for enterprise infrastructure architecture and modernization supporting the SEC ISS contract
• Translate mission and functional requirements into scalable, secure technical solutions across on-premises and hybrid/multi-cloud environments
• Lead cross-functional engineering and operations teams to improve reliability, automation, and service performance aligned to SEC OIT objectives
• Drive technology evaluations, proofs of concept, pilots, and demonstrations
• Ensure designs integrate with 24x7x365 enterprise operations and observability requirements
• Align architecture decisions with Zero Trust, FISMA, and SEC governance expectations
• Design, implement, and manage secure, highly available cloud environments
• Lead Azure cloud migration, modernization, infrastructure, and storage initiatives
• Design, configure, and administer Azure enterprise cloud environments
• Lead complex infrastructure and storage migrations, upgrades, modernization initiatives, and integrations across cloud and on-premises environments
• Support audit readiness, compliance, governance controls, and technical documentation
• Perform storage performance tuning, capacity planning, disaster recovery, business continuity, and risk assessment
• Integrate infrastructure, network, security, and operations teams
• Develop architecture governance, standards, and operational best practices

Requirements:

• US Citizen
• Ability to obtain and maintain SEC Public Trust (or higher if required)
• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field
• 12+ years of experience in enterprise IT infrastructure, including engineering, architecture, and administration of enterprise storage platforms
• Minimum 8 years of experience in IT infrastructure roles, including 5+ years focused on Azure cloud engineering and architecture
• Experience with IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS cloud hosting architecture/design patterns
• Proven experience managing multi-discipline infrastructure, server, storage, and system operations teams
• Experience translating functional and business requirements into scalable enterprise technical solutions and leading integration efforts
• Experience designing, implementing, and managing secure, highly available cloud environments for enterprise services
• Experience leading Azure cloud migration and modernization initiatives within regulated or compliance-driven environments
• Hands-on experience with Azure Virtual Machines, Virtual Machine Scale Sets, Azure Containers, Kubernetes, Cloud Services, and related cloud-native technologies
• Extensive experience with enterprise storage platforms, SAN/NAS technologies, storage virtualization, and backup/recovery solutions
• Experience leading complex infrastructure and storage migrations, upgrades, modernization initiatives, and integrations across cloud and on-premises environments
• Experience supporting audit readiness, compliance requirements, governance controls, and technical documentation in federal or highly regulated environments
• Advanced expertise in storage performance tuning, capacity planning, disaster recovery, business continuity, and risk assessment
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills
• Hands-on experience with Clustered Data ONTAP software
• Strong experience with Azure DevOps, Repos, Pipelines, and Boards
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert preferred
• HashiCorp Terraform Associate Certification preferred
• NetApp Certified Data Administrator (NCDA) or equivalent preferred
• Preferred experience with U.S. Federal Government environments and FISMA, NIST, OMB, and FedRAMP compliance
• Preferred experience supporting SEC or similarly regulated financial-sector federal agencies
• Preferred experience with observability, monitoring, and ITSM platform integrations
• Preferred hands-on experience with Kubernetes, OpenShift, Ansible, GitOps toolchains, and automation frameworks
• Preferred experience implementing immutable infrastructure and policy-as-code controls
• Preferred experience leading architecture and modernization initiatives in 24x7x365 enterprise operations environments
• Preferred proficiency in Ansible, Python, and Bash scripting
• Preferred experience developing and enforcing infrastructure, cloud, and storage standards, policies, and operational best practices
• Preferred experience with FinOps, cloud cost optimization, and cloud resource governance

Benefits:

• Fully remote position
• Equal Opportunity Employer
• Military Spouse Employment Partnership (MSEP) partner
• Virginia Values Veterans (V3) Program partner
• Inclusive hiring practices