Infrastructure Architect, Cloud

Location: Tysons Corner, Virginia, hybrid; at least 3 days per week in the office. U.S. citizenship is required, and candidates must be able to obtain a public trust clearance.

Company

hirify.global provides technology services and solutions for federal government clients, including application development, cloud and infrastructure optimization, IT modernization, identity management, and data management.

What you will do

• Plan, design, assemble, and oversee program infrastructure supporting operations, maintenance, and new development.
• Assess existing AWS cloud resources, identify defects and performance improvements, and recommend optimizations.
• Guide engineers and developers on infrastructure best practices and capacity planning for fluctuating demand.
• Work with government IT operations and other teams to plan upgrades, integrations, cloud migrations, and application modernization.
• Maintain and enforce logging, monitoring, alerting, architecture diagrams, runbooks, and Agile metrics.
• Participate in periodic on-call support shared across the engineering team.

Requirements

• U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain a public trust clearance.
• Bachelor’s degree with at least 8 years of relevant Enterprise IT experience, or at least 10 years without a bachelor’s degree.
• Proficiency designing and implementing AWS cloud solutions, including experience managing resources in FedRAMP-approved GovCloud.
• Ability to analyze AWS services, identify defects, and develop performance and reliability improvements.
• Strong verbal and written communication, active listening, problem-solving, and collaboration skills.
• Ability to explain technical issues to non-technical and executive-level government stakeholders.

Nice to have

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional certification.
• Experience with DevSecOps pipeline tools, configuration management, automated testing, and CI/CD deployments.
• Knowledge of Windows or Red Hat Enterprise Linux administration, Terraform, Ansible, TOGAF, and Agile solution design.
• Experience creating architecture and network diagrams, performance benchmarks, testing strategies, roadmaps, and technical standards.
• Experience presenting architecture designs to clients, supporting cloud migrations, and modernizing technology cost-effectively.

Culture & Benefits

• Employee-centric environment focused on mission-critical federal government projects.
• Flexible time-off policy, flexible work schedules, and telework options for eligible projects.
• Mentorship, technical and management training, hands-on DevLab learning, tuition reimbursement, and paid training.
• Health, dental, vision, flexible spending, commuter, and life insurance benefits.
• 401(k) matching with a 5% company contribution.
• Team events, community engagement programs, donation matching, and volunteer time off.