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Strategic Communications

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 1994

🏢 Enterprise

🔒 Cybersecurity

🏛️ Government

Enterprise • Cybersecurity • Government

Strategic Communications is a Louisville, KY–headquartered Woman & Minority-Owned Small Business (WOSB & MBE) IT solutions integrator with roughly 30 years of experience helping public sector and enterprise customers modernize technology. The company provides a broad portfolio of services including cloud solutions, cybersecurity, digital transformation, collaboration and digital workplace tools, IT infrastructure, managed and professional services (including IT staffing and project management), and data & analytics. Strategic Communications operates specialized public-sector offerings (JPS TRUST for Justice & Public Safety), emphasizes compliance (CJIS, FedRAMP), and holds multiple government contract vehicles (Army CHESS, Sourcewell, NASPO). It partners with major vendors such as Cisco, AWS, Microsoft, Dell, Oracle, Crestron, Biamp, and Shure.

📋 Description

• Serve as the primary cloud architecture advisor for assigned customer environments. • Validate evolving architectures against the AWS Well-Architected Framework. • Identify architectural drift and recommend remediation strategies. • Develop and maintain current-state and target-state architecture diagrams. • Support architecture governance processes and design decision documentation. • Provide guidance on Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), CI/CD pipeline architectures, containerization strategies (Kubernetes / ECS / EKS), landing zone design, and multi-account governance. • Recommend automation strategies to improve operational efficiency and reliability. • Conduct Well-Architected Reviews and operational readiness assessments. • Support observability, monitoring, logging, and incident response improvements. • Assist teams in improving reliability, scalability, and performance of cloud workloads. • Identify cost optimization opportunities and FinOps alignment. • Advise on migration strategies including rehost, replatform, refactor, replace, retire, and support phased modernization roadmaps aligned to business objectives. • Provide architectural guidance aligned to FedRAMP, CJIS, HIPAA, FERPA, and NIST frameworks. • Mentor internal engineering teams on AWS architecture best practices and conduct architecture workshops and technical briefings. • Coordinate with AWS account teams, AWS TAMs, strategic delivery leadership, and customer engineering leadership and provide monthly and quarterly architecture reviews and reporting.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent experience. • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (Required) • AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional (Preferred) • AWS DevOps Engineer Professional (Preferred) • AWS Security Specialty (Preferred) • Kubernetes certifications (CKA / CKAD) (Preferred) • FinOps Practitioner (Preferred) • 8+ years cloud architecture experience • 5+ years designing and deploying AWS architectures • Experience supporting regulated or public-sector cloud environments (e.g., FedRAMP, CJIS, HIPAA, NIST frameworks, or GovCloud) • Experience with AWS networking architecture, identity and access management, multi-account governance, infrastructure-as-code automation, and cloud security architecture. • Supporting environments involving AWS Organizations, Landing Zone frameworks, DevSecOps pipelines, Hybrid architectures, Cloud migrations and modernization programs.

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical Insurance • Dental Insurance • Life Insurance • Vision Insurance • Short and Long-term Disability Insurance • Pet Insurance • 401k Plan • Paid Vacation Days • Paid Sick Days • Paid Holidays • Wellness Incentives • Referral Bonuses