Cloud Technical Lead

Overview

Looking to make a difference and help modernize critical government missions? Join Acuity's team supporting the U.S. Department of State. As the Cloud Technical Lead, you will provide technical leadership for enterprise cloud engineering and modernization initiatives across Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and other enterprise cloud environments. The Department's environment is multi-cloud, and this role is designed for a versatile cloud leader with strong knowledge of both AWS and Azure technologies. Given the current team and teaming-partner mix, deep hands-on AWS expertise is especially important, while GCP and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) knowledge are valuable differentiators. You will help drive secure, scalable, resilient, and efficient cloud delivery while promoting common engineering processes and standards across cloud teams.

 

Working closely with the Modernization SME, Project Managers, Cloud Engineers, Cybersecurity teams, teaming partners, and government stakeholders, you will provide technical direction across cloud architecture, cloud security, DevSecOps, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), automation, and cloud operations. The ideal candidate can work effectively across cloud disciplines, help teams apply similar or identical engineering and governance processes where practical, mentor engineers, and improve efficiency and consistency across the broader cloud environment.

Why Acuity?

Are you ready to use your expertise in the areas of IT Modernization, Data Enablement, and Hyperautomation to make a real difference? Join Acuity, Inc., a technology consulting firm that supports federal agencies. We combine industry partnerships and long-term federal experience with innovative technical leadership to support our customers’ critical missions.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the technical lead for enterprise cloud engineering initiatives across AWS and Azure, with the ability to support and collaborate across GCP and other cloud environments. Bring particularly deep hands-on AWS expertise while maintaining strong working knowledge of Azure technologies.
• Provide technical leadership for cloud modernization projects involving cloud migration, infrastructure modernization, application modernization, and enterprise cloud adoption.
• Lead the design, implementation, and optimization of secure, scalable, highly available cloud infrastructure supporting Department of State mission requirements.
• Establish and promote common cloud engineering standards, implementation patterns, automation frameworks, governance processes, and operational best practices across cloud teams to improve consistency, reuse, and delivery efficiency.
• Guide engineering teams in implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and cloud-native technologies such as CloudFormation, Bicep, ARM Templates, Ansible, or equivalent tools.
• Lead implementation of cloud-native services including containers, Kubernetes (EKS, AKS, GKE), serverless computing, storage, networking, and microservices architectures, with particular depth in AWS services and patterns.
• Collaborate with cybersecurity teams to implement Zero Trust Architecture, cloud security controls, identity and access management (IAM), encryption, vulnerability management, and continuous monitoring across cloud environments.
• Support DevSecOps initiatives by integrating automated security testing, infrastructure automation, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud governance into engineering workflows.
• Evaluate cloud architectures for security, resiliency, scalability, operational efficiency, performance, and cost optimization.
• Troubleshoot complex cloud infrastructure, networking, identity, storage, and application issues while providing technical guidance to engineering teams.
• Support implementation of enterprise monitoring, observability, logging, and operational dashboards utilizing cloud-native and third-party monitoring platforms.
• Develop technical standards, cloud reference architectures, implementation guides, operational procedures, and engineering documentation.
• Mentor Cloud Engineers and provide technical leadership across cloud engineering activities while fostering engineering excellence and continuous improvement.
• Collaborate across AWS, Azure, GCP, cybersecurity, infrastructure, architecture, and program teams to align cloud solutions and, where practical, standardize processes and engineering approaches across platforms.
• Perform additional duties as assigned in support of customer mission objectives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Cybersecurity, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• Minimum of eight (8) years of experience designing, implem