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).
- 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.
- 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
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What We Do
Passion and Purpose. We are a start-up borne out of a group of architects and engineers providing solutions that transform with digital breakthroughs.
We Partner - Partnership to us means being all in - on the ground, in the weeds, producing and delivering mission solutions.
We Innovate - driving digital innovation and experimentation to improve decision services for the American people.
We Engage – co-creating to deliver HCD (human centered design) to solve tour customers digital challenges.
We Deliver – and take pride and accountability in everything we do.
We are Ignite IT.
Ignite IT deploys teams that are customer-obsessed, delivering a CX (Customer Experience) renaissance to our Private and Public Sector customers. We combine Commercial BX (Business of Experience) with customer delivery experts to benefit agencies to innovate and improve services and launch new digital solutions. We have built a company foundation dependent on each of our employee’s success, and provide a healthy, engaging, community where learning and knowledge sharing are encouraged. We empower our employees to be bold, continually innovate and propose new ideas to improve processes and services. We engage daily on work that touches millions of people, always focusing on positive impacts and results.
We enable mission services that enable Enterprise companies to succeed in digital transformation, protect Border Agents, deploy the Army Reserve and National Guard, providing decision dominance to make America safer. We apply these digital services across the Private and Public Sectors to include include HHS, DHS, AOUSC and Army. We aim to continually raise the bar for our customers to expect more from their digital services. For more information, visit www.igniteitservices.com
