Senior AWS Cloud Architect

🕒 August 21

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $112k - $179k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

☁️ Cloud Engineer

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Peraton

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10,000+ employees

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

Peraton is a mission-focused enterprise that supports national security initiatives through advanced IT and cyber services. They provide capabilities in areas such as cyber defense, cloud operations, engineering, and intelligence. With a commitment to solving complex challenges, Peraton integrates data-driven technologies to ensure mission success for their military and government clients.

📋 Description

• Design, lead, and govern enterprise cloud architecture supporting mission-critical federal programs • Define target-state cloud architecture across AWS as the primary platform and Azure as the secondary platform • Design and document scalable, resilient, and secure cloud architectures, including blueprints, diagrams, and strategies • Develop and implement reference architectures and design patterns aligned with FedRAMP Moderate control baselines, NIST 800-53, and NIST 800-171 • Lead cloud migration and modernization strategy, including workload assessment, right-sizing, and cost optimization • Evaluate and recommend cloud-native and hybrid solutions balancing performance, cost, and compliance • Lead technical gap analysis and support ATO documentation, including System Security Plans and architecture diagrams • Develop reusable Infrastructure as Code templates using Terraform or AWS CloudFormation • Configure secure CI/CD pipelines, monitoring solutions, and containerization using Azure DevOps and AWS-native services • Architect identity access boundaries, MFA, SSO, network firewalls, and encryption for data at rest and in transit • Build SRE practices and disaster recovery solutions • Provide technical leadership and mentorship to cloud engineers • Partner with Cloud Computing, Application Development, Data Science, Infrastructure, and Cybersecurity Engineering teams and stakeholders

🎯 Requirements

• 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 • Minimum 10 years of work experience 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 • Experience architecting within FedRAMP Moderate, FedRAMP High, DoD, or similar compliance environments • Familiarity with NIST 800-53 and NIST 800-171 control families • Experience with Infrastructure as Code, including Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar • Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices • Scripting experience with Python, Bash, and PowerShell • Experience with cloud-native and serverless architectures, including Lambda, API Gateway, and microservices • Experience with containerization, including EKS, ECS, and Fargate • Experience with hybrid/multi-cloud architecture, including Azure VNets, Azure AD/Entra ID, SSO/MFA, Azure Policy, Site-to-Site VPN, ExpressRoute, and Direct Connect • Experience implementing SRE practices and disaster recovery plans • Experience supporting ATO and continuous monitoring processes with government customers • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate or Professional certification

🏖️ Benefits

• Potential eligibility for overtime • Potential eligibility for shift differential • Potential eligibility for a discretionary bonus