Cloud Architect

Maximus TCS (Technology and Consulting Services) Internal Job Profile Code: TCS022, T4, Band 7

Job-Specific Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

- Provide technical leadership and oversight for enterprise cloud operations, ensuring cloud environments are securely provisioned, configured, monitored, and lifecycle managed in accordance with agency policies.

- Serve within the Enterprise Architecture and Governance function to align cloud architectures and operational implementations with established enterprise standards across IT and OT environments.

- Maintain and contribute to architecture artifacts, governance documentation, and configuration standards to support consistent and compliant cloud operations.

- Coordinate monitoring, incident response, and production support activities to ensure highly reliable, resilient, and secure cloud service delivery.

- Partner with engineering and operations teams to support testing processes related to production deployments, ensuring readiness, stability, and compliance with change and release practices.

- Facilitate integration of cloud operations with enterprise change, configuration, and release management processes, supporting effective lifecycle coordination without direct ownership.

- Ensure cloud platforms and services are incorporated into disaster recovery planning, testing, and continuity of operations across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments.

- Oversee cloud cost and consumption management, providing visibility, reporting, and optimization recommendations aligned to budget and utilization goals.

- Support IT service management (ITSM) and IT operations management (ITOM) objectives by aligning cloud operations with service delivery frameworks and continuous improvement initiatives.

- Track and report on service performance against SLAs, enabling transparency and driving continuous service improvement across functional areas.

Job-Specific Minimum Requirements:

- Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust is required.

An active Public Trust and/or DHS suitability is preferred.

Must be a U.S.

Citizen without dual citizenship.

- Demonstrated experience architecting and supporting cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP) in an enterprise or federal setting.

- Demonstrated experience leading a team of engineers.

- Hands-on experience with cloud operations, including provisioning, monitoring, and lifecycle management of cloud infrastructure.

- Proven ability to support incident response, system monitoring, and production operations in a 24/7 or mission-critical environment.

- Experience coordinating change management, configuration management, and release processes within structured IT environments.

- Working knowledge of cloud security and compliance frameworks (e.g., NIST, FedRAMP, etc) and their application to cloud environments.

- Experience integrating cloud services into disaster recovery and continuity of operations (COOP) planning and testing.

- Demonstrated u...