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Cloud Architect
Essnova Solutions, Inc. is a rapidly growing SBA 8(a) and HUBZone-certified federal contractor delivering innovative technology, mission support, and engineering solutions across the Department of Defense (DoD), Intelligence Community, and civilian agencies. Headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, with operations across multiple geographies, Essnova specializes in cloud architecture and migration, enterprise IT modernization, advanced analytics, and mission-critical systems integration.
We bring the rigor of large enterprises with the agility of a small business, holding ISO 9001 and CMMI certifications to ensure quality, repeatability, and compliance across every engagement. Leveraging proven experience supporting DoD, DHS, USDA, FDA, and USACE programs, Essnova combines technical depth, federal domain expertise, and an unwavering commitment to security and resilience. Our teams excel in designing, governing, and maintaining hybrid cloud environments—ensuring seamless migration, integration, and optimization of cloud platforms to meet complex mission demands.
Essnova is looking for a Cloud Architect to perform and support activities associated with the maintenance and support of DoD OIG’s hybrid cloud services and infrastructure platforms including management for the Public Cloud Service Provider (IaaS, PaaS or SaaS) and/or 3rd party Cloud Service Provider offered platforms and services.
Requirements
Support the design, governance, and architecture of compute environment in a cloud environment.
Develop workflows for on demand IaaS provisioning.
Identify the integration points essential for self-service IaaS provisioning.
Manage additional supporting services for the core compute services in the environment (such as dynamic auto-scaling, container management, load balancing).
Support and perform migration of virtual machine (VM) and platforms from on-premises to the cloud, and vice versa.
Export an existing running instance or a copy of an instance and into Customer required image format (e.g., a VMDK, OVF or VHD file).
Change regions and/or subscriptions in accordance with services provided by the Cloud Service Provider.
Create and configure infrastructure templates and blueprints for IaaS provisioning.
Minimum Qualifications:
Must have Top Secret (TS) security clearance with SCI eligibility.
Must have a bachelor’s degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or related engineering discipline.
Must have 7 years’ experience with cloud migration projects.
Desired Qualifications:
Master’s degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or related engineering discipline.
Azure Solutions Architect certificate.

Washington, DC, USA
Negotiable Salary