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Sr. AWS Cloud Architect

Peraton
Remote, USA
Full-time
Senior · 12+ years experience
Remote
USD 112000-179000 yearly / year
Discovered 1 weeks ago
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Responsibilities

  • Systems Design: Design and document scalable, resilient, and secure cloud architectures (blueprints, diagrams, and strategies) on AWS, with secondary integration and support for Azure workloads
  • Compliant Architecture: Develop and implement reference architectures and design patterns aligned to FedRAMP Moderate control baselines (NIST 800-53 and NIST 800-171)
  • Migration & Modernization: Lead cloud migration and modernization strategy, including workload assessment, right-sizing, and cost optimization
  • Cost & Performance Optimization: Evaluate and recommend cloud-native and hybrid solutions that balance performance, cost, and compliance
  • ATO & System Security Plans: Lead technical gap analysis, partner with the cloud security team, execute automated control mapping, and support development and maintenance of System Security Plans (SSPs), architecture diagrams, and other ATO documentation
  • Automation (IaC): Develop and implement reusable Infrastructure as Code templates using Terraform or AWS CloudFormation to ensure continuous compliance and rapid deployment
  • DevSecOps Integration: Configure secure CI/CD pipelines, monitoring solutions, and containerization using tools such as Azure DevOps and AWS-native services (CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy) and other security tooling
  • Identity & Data Protection: Architect secure identity access boundaries, multi-factor authentication, single sign-on (SSO), network firewalls, and encryption schemas for data at rest and in transit
  • SRE & Disaster Recovery: Build site reliability engineering (SRE) practices and disaster recovery solutions.
  • Technical Mentorship: Provide technical leadership and mentorship to cloud engineers

Required Qualifications:

  • US citizenship required; ability to obtain and maintain a Top-Secret eligible clearance
  • Minimum 12 years work experience with BS/BA in computer science, Information Systems, or a related field (or equivalent experience), Min 10 years with MS/MA
  • 8 years of progressive experience in cloud infrastructure/architecture roles on AWS
  • Deep hands-on expertise designing AWS solutions, including VPC, IAM, EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, networking/Transit Gateway, KMS, Organizations, Control Tower, PrivateLink, Direct Connect, and Site-to-Site VPN
  • Strong grasp of networking, databases, storage, and container tooling on AWS
  • Experience with AWS cloud-native security services such as GuardDuty, Security Hub, and Inspector
  • Demonstrated experience architecting within FedRAMP Moderate (or FedRAMP High/DoD or similar compliance) environments, with familiarity in NIST 800-53 and NIST 800-171 control families
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar), CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps practices
  • Scripting experience (Python, Bash, PowerShell)
  • Experience with cloud-native and serverless architectures (Lambda, API Gateway, microservices) and containerization (EKS, ECS, Fargate)
  • Experience with hybrid/multi-cloud architecture, including Azure (VNets, Azure AD/Entra ID, SSO/MFA, Azure Policy, Site-to-Site VPN, ExpressRoute, Direct Connect)
  • Experience implementing SRE practices and disaster recovery plans
  • Experience supporting ATO and continuous monitoring processes with government customers
  • Certification: AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate or Professional

Preferred Qualifications:

  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
  • Experience with Databricks implementation and support
  • Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification
  • Experience with Microsoft .NET and SQL Server
  • Experience with Azure
  • Experience with DevSecOps
  • Strong collaboration skills across technical and non-technical teams
  • Experience with AI/ML platforms deployed in regulated environments
  • Active security clearance
  • Familiarity with AI security and governance frameworks, national security/defense/critical infrastructure missions, and supporting federal agencies or large GovCon programs
  • #RDG
  • Peraton offers eligible employees a variety of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, health savings account, short/long term disability, EAP, parental leave, 401(k), paid time off (PTO) for vacation, and company paid holidays. A full listing of available benefits can be viewed at https://www.careers.peraton.com/benefits .
  • The application period for the job is estimated to be 30 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates.
  • By applying to this job, you are expressing interest in the role and the Company. During the review of your application, you may be required to participate in an on-camera interview, as well as participate in a process to verify your identity.
  • Use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools of any kind during Peraton interviews is strictly prohibited unless the candidate has obtained prior written authorization. All interview responses must be the candidate’s own.

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