Cloud Architect

@ Essnova Solutions, Inc.

About Essnova Solutions, Inc.

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, Essnova specializes in cloud architecture, migration, enterprise IT modernization, advanced analytics, and mission-critical systems integration. The company holds ISO 9001 and CMMI certifications ensuring quality, repeatability, and compliance.

Job Overview: Cloud Architect

The Cloud Architect will support DoD OIG’s hybrid cloud services and infrastructure. The role involves designing, governing, and maintaining cloud environments while ensuring seamless migration, integration, and optimization of cloud platforms.

Key Responsibilities

• Support design, governance, and architecture of compute environments in the cloud.
• Develop on-demand IaaS provisioning workflows and infrastructure templates.
• Identify integration points for self-service IaaS provisioning.
• Manage supporting services including auto-scaling, container management, and load balancing.
• Support migration of virtual machines and platforms between on-premises and cloud.
• Export running instances to customer required image formats (e.g., VMDK, OVF, VHD).
• Change regions/subscriptions as per Cloud Service Provider requirements.

Minimum Qualifications

• Top Secret (TS) security clearance with SCI eligibility.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or related field.
• 7 years’ experience with cloud migration projects.

Desired Qualifications

• Master’s degree in a related discipline.
• Azure Solutions Architect certificate.

Key skills/competency

Cloud Architecture, Cloud Migration, IaaS Provisioning, Hybrid Cloud, Virtualization, Automation, DoD, Security Clearance, Infrastructure Templates, Container Management