Cloud/DevSecOps Architect

Unissant, Inc. delivers innovative capabilities to the agencies that keep our nation healthy and safe. We apply our domain expertise, data acumen, and technology know-how to achieve breakthrough results for our clients. Working collaboratively, we advance missions and careers through a focus on honesty, integrity, and dependability. We continuously look for talent, excited to join that effort. To learn more about our exciting organization, please visit us at www.unissant.com.

Unissant is seeking a Cloud/DevSecOps Architect to support a newly awarded program for a federal health agency. Serve as the portfolio technical authority for cloud modernization and secure software delivery, aligning application teams to a consistent technical approach.

The ideal candidate brings practical delivery experience, sound judgment, and a collaborative approach to maintaining Federal business applications while improving technical capability.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Own the portfolio technical vision, architecture standards, and approved modernization patterns across enterprise business applications.
• Assess application cloud readiness and define migration, refactoring, and hosting options with documented security and cost tradeoffs.
• Define reusable CI/CD patterns, infrastructure automation, environment controls, and technical release-readiness criteria.
• Coordinate cloud, application, data, and security architecture, including identity, network boundaries, secrets, and system interfaces.
• Establish technical review practices for automated testing, code quality, vulnerability remediation, and authorization evidence.
• Evaluate approved AI-assisted engineering and automation capabilities; require human validation and measure operational benefit.
• Guide technical leads, resolve cross-system design conflicts, and support Government technical decisions and modernization roadmaps.
• Support transition knowledge transfer and maintain current technical or process documentation for assigned responsibilities.
• Coordinate assigned work with program leadership, Government stakeholders, and related teams; report blockers and dependencies promptly.
• Use Government-approved tools and handle program data within authorized environments. Validate any AI-assisted output before it informs delivery decisions.

Work Experience and Job Skills:

Basic Qualifications:

• Minimum 14-20 years of enterprise architecture and cloud-native modernization experience across multiple concurrent systems.
• Experience owning CI/CD architecture and cross-system security design in a production environment.
• Deep expertise in a relevant cloud platform and ability to assess AWS, Azure, or GCP options for assigned workloads.
• Experience with infrastructure automation, container patterns, application integration, and controlled cloud migrations.
• Ability to evaluate reliability, security, performance, accessibility, and operating cost as connected design concerns.
• Ability to lead technical specialists and explain architecture decisions and risks to Government stakeholders.
• Ability to document work clearly, protect sensitive program information, and collaborate across Government and contractor teams.
• Ability to meet federal suitability and access requirements and provide on-site support in the Bethesda, Maryland area as directed.

Additional Qualifications:

• Federal cloud migration and FIPS 199 Moderate system experience.
• Experience establishing reusable delivery patterns and supporting federal IT lifecycle and authorization evidence.
• Experience measuring automation benefits, reviewing AI-generated engineering outputs, and cloud cost optimization.
• Experience supporting a Federal IT services environment, preferably within a federal health agency or comparable federal IT environment.
• Experience transferring knowledge from an incumbent team and maintaining reliable services during transition.

Education:

• A degree or relevant coursework in computer science, information systems, engineering, or a related discipline is preferred.

Certificates, Licenses and Registrations:

• AWS or Azure professional-level architecture certification and Security+ or CISSP are preferred.

Communication Skills:

• Clear verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to coordinate professionally across Government, prime contractor, and subcontractor teams.
• Ability to explain role-specific findings, document decisions and procedures, and communicate risks and recommended actions to the appropriate audience.

Clearance Requirements:

• Must hold or be eligible for a Public Trust Moderate (Tier 2) background investigation and meet applicable federal suitability, badging, and system-access requirements.

Travel:

• Washington, DC.

Environmental Requirements:

• Mainly a routine office environment.
• May be required to lift up to ten (10) pounds
• Flexible in working extended hours

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by the individual(s) assigned to this position. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, and skills required. Unissant management reserves the right to modify, add, or remove duties and to assign other duties as necessary. In addition, where applicable and available, reasonable accommodation(s) may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions of this position.

Candidate(s) will be required to go through pre-employment screening.

Unissant, Inc. is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer! (EOE; M/F/Disability/Vets)