Cloud Architect

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November 20

⚔️ Virginia – Remote

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⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

☁️ Cloud Engineer

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Armaments Research Company

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Aerospace • Artificial Intelligence • Security

Armaments Research Company is a firm that develops AI-enabled weapon sensors designed for large-scale combat operations. Their technology provides enhanced situational awareness and predictive logistics for military operations by analyzing weapon discharge and expenditure rates. The company's solutions help soldiers maintain focus during combat by offering real-time data on muzzle orientation and discharge times, improving decision-making at all levels of command.

11 - 50 employees

🚀 Aerospace

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🔐 Security

💰 $225k Grant on 2018-06

📋 Description

• Design and document cloud architectures supporting scalability, reliability, and compliance for commercial and GovCloud environments. • Evaluate, propose, and implement improvements to existing infrastructure and deployment pipelines. • Model and present cost trade-offs for architectural options. • Continuously optimize compute, storage, and network resources to control costs without sacrificing performance or resilience. • Administer and optimize AWS environments, including Identity Center (SSO), IAM roles/policies, and VPC networking. • Implement secure deployment models (blue-green, canary, roll-forward/rollback) to maximize uptime and reliability. • Own uptime and availability metrics, ensuring SLAs are met or exceeded. • Architect and deploy comprehensive monitoring, logging, and alerting across all cloud components (EKS, RDS, S3, CloudFront, etc.). • Integrate observability tools (e.g., CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/Opensearch) for actionable insights and incident response. • Partner with software and data engineers to design efficient architectures and CI/CD pipelines. • Provide mentorship and architectural guidance to DevOps/DevSecOps engineers, emphasizing automation and security best practices. • Serve as the primary technical authority for cloud architecture reviews, compliance assessments, and performance optimization efforts.

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in cloud architecture or DevSecOps, including 3+ years designing and operating AWS environments at scale. • Strong expertise with AWS core services (EC2, EKS, ECS, Lambda, RDS, S3, CloudFront, CloudFormation/Terraform, IAM, Identity Center). • Proven experience with GovCloud and commercial AWS deployments. • Deep understanding of infrastructure-as-code (IaC) and automation tools (Terraform, AWS CDK, Ansible, etc.). • Strong familiarity with Kubernetes/EKS, containerization, and CI/CD workflows. • Hands-on experience implementing monitoring, logging, and observability solutions (CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/Opensearch). • Solid understanding of security best practices, compliance frameworks (FedRAMP, NIST 800-53), and identity management. • Demonstrated ability to design for fault tolerance, high availability, and disaster recovery. • Excellent communication and documentation skills; ability to present technical decisions to both engineers and executives.

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity Options • 401k plan • Employer paid employee medical, dental and vision • 12 paid holidays plus Flexible PTO Policy