Senior Principal Cloud Architect

Job ID: 2615349

Location: San Diego, CA, US

Date Posted: 2026-08-06

Category: Information Technology

Subcategory: Cloud Comp Engr

Schedule: Full-Time

Shift: Day Job

Travel: Yes - 10% of the time

Minimum Clearance Required: Interim_Secret

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: Secret

Potential for Remote Work: ORA_REMOTE

Description

SAIC is seeking a Senior Principal Cloud Architect in San Diego, CA. The successful candidate initiates, supervises, and/or develops requirements from a project's inception to conclusion for complex programs. Provides strategic advice, technical guidance and expertise to program and project staff. Provides detailed analysis, evaluation and recommendations for improvements, optimization development, and/or maintenance efforts for client-specific or mission critical challenges/issues.

This is a remote role in San Diego, CA but must be local to area due to onsite needs, up to 10% of travel involved in this role.

JOB DUTIES

Providing technical leadership and hands-on development and implementation of commercial cloud solution architectures that modernize the way our customers architect, deploy, and use cloud technology, focusing on security, scalability, and resiliency.

Planning, designing, and managing the migration, re-platforming, integration, implementation and operation of complex cloud environments.

Communicating, defining, administering, and implementing various security processes and assist with the transformation of platforms.

Ensuring commercial cloud service offerings (CSO) adhere to DoD Cloud Computing policy/guidelines.

Providing specific, detailed information for hardware and software selection, cloud service provider selection, implementation techniques, application data migration techniques and tools for the most efficient solution to meet business needs, including present and future capacity requirements.

Developing and conducting testing of cloud and virtualization systems.

Maintaining technical expertise relevant industry standards and in cloud computing and virtualization technologies such as cloud service provider architecture, design, and configuration; cloud deployment models including public, community, private, and hybrid; cloud service delivery models including infrastructure-, platform-, and software-as-a-service; automation; hypervisors; containers; virtual compute, storage, and networks; virtual infrastructure management; self-provisioning; and scaling.

Evaluating and reporting on new cloud and virtualization technologies to enhance capabilities of cloud-based and virtualized services.

Participating with senior managers to establish strategic plans and objectives.

Design and implement secure, scalable cloud infrastructure that supports enterprise data platforms, shared data services, analytics workloads, and AI/ML development environments.

Collaborate with software engineering, data engineering, and data science teams to ensure cloud architectures align with enterprise data strategy, governance, security, and operational requirements.

Qualifications

REQUIREMENTS

Bachelors and fourteen (14) years or more experience

Must be able to obtain an Interim Secret Clearance to start

Must be able to obtain a Secret Clearance after start

Process requirements from government customer, prioritize taskings and work based on government direction and timelines

Proven track record of work experience as a cloud architect, designing and deploying cloud solutions

Expertise in Active Directory design and maintenance

In-depth understanding of, and experience as a cloud engineer with AWS, Networking, VPNs, IaaS, PaaS

Demonstrated experience in one or more following activities: - IaaS, PaaS and SaaS Services (compute, storage, network, security, administration, automation, application services, databases)

Ability to utilize a variety of tools like Git, YML, and AWS security capabilities (WAF, GuardDuty, Security Groups, IAM, etc.)

Knowledge of an IT Service Management (ITSM) tool suite

Experience with AWS Workspaces or experience deploying VDI solutions to AWS Cloud

Configuration and change management experience working directly with/for a Government customer

In depth troubleshooting experience with the ability to tackle the toughest environment issues

Experience with how to write SSM documents in JSON/YAML

Experience with how to write/test/deploy new or existing CloudFormation templates

Understand enterprise Data Architectures, Data Engineering, Analytics, and AI enablement principles, and the ability to collaborate closely with the stakeholders including Data Architects, Data Engineers, and Data Scientists to design and support cloud platforms that enable scalable data pipelines, advanced analytics, and AI capabilities.

DESIRED SKILLS

Master's Degree and 10 or more years of experience

AWS Cloud Solutions Architect Professional Certification

Fluent with multiple scripting languages

AWS networking experience including AWS site to site VPNs, Transit Gateway and Direct connect

Knowledge of routing using BGP in a DoD environment

Familiarity with DNS in an AWS govcloud environment using Route53, knowledge of DISA Iodyn is a plus

Proficiencies with DevOps tools (Docker/Kubernetes/Harbor/ECS/EKS/Fargate/Gitlab-ci/Artifactory)

Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) methodologies and associated tools

Demonstrated expertise in creating and executing CI/CD pipelines

Target salary range: $160,001 - $200,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.