Cloud Application Architect

Ready to Ignite your career and work alongside some of the most innovative and brightest professionals in federal services today? Join us and unleash your potential working in an agile environment alongside the men and women charged with ensuring the success of one of the most important missions in American Government.  We’re seeking a Cloud Application Architect to lead the modernization of legacy applications and design cloud-native solutions on AWS. This role involves evaluating existing systems, decomposing monolithic applications, and designing scalable, containerized or serverless architectures using services like ECS, Lambda, and API Gateway. You'll work closely with data and DevOps teams to build integration pipelines, recommend optimal AWS services, and create solution blueprints that align with cloud best practices. If you have a passion for transforming applications and driving innovation in the cloud, this is a great opportunity to make an impact.

As a Cloud Application Architect you will:

• Evaluate CEDSCI applications and design target architecture mappings.
• Break down app components and determine suitable AWS service replacements.
• Design container or serverless implementation plans.
• Collaborate with data and DevOps engineers for integration pipelines.
• Recommend optimal storage, compute, and messaging patterns.
• Create solution blueprints and service contracts (APIs/interfaces).

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience designing and modernizing cloud-based applications, including breaking down monoliths into microservices and applying 12-factor app principles.
• Proficiency in containerization and serverless architectures, with hands-on experience using Docker, Amazon ECS, and AWS Lambda for scalable, event-driven application design.
• Strong background in designing and integrating RESTful APIs using Amazon API Gateway and orchestrating backend services with AWS Step Functions.
• Ability to architect for both stateful and stateless compute environments using Elastic Beanstalk, ECS, or Lambda to ensure application scalability and resilience.
• Experience with legacy application modernization using AWS tools such as App2Container and Migration Hub Refactor Spaces.
• Bachelor's degree in related technical field.
• US Citizenship Required.
• AWS certifications highly preferred.

Benefits

• 401(k) with matching and 100% Vested
• Health Insurance - 3 plans to select from
• Dental insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Short Term Disability
• Long Term Disability
• AD&D
• Paid time off
• Professional development assistance
• Training
• Tuition reimbursement
• Flexible schedule
• Flexible spending account
• Referral program
• Paid Legal Plan
• and more....

Ignite IT is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, Veteran status, sexual orientation, or other protected characteristic. In accordance with EO 13665 Final Rule, Ignite IT will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant.

Applicants selected must be able to possess and maintain a government clearance

US CITIZENSHIP REQUIRED