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About the Role

Serve as a strategic cloud advisor and Resident Architect for enterprise and public sector customer engagements, focusing on architectural governance, platform maturity, and adoption enablement. Provide ongoing architectural advisory, governance, and optimization guidance to sustain AWS adoption momentum and ensure alignment with best practices, operational maturity goals, and regulatory requirements.

Responsibilities

• 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, and Retire.
• Support phased modernization roadmaps aligned to business objectives.
• Provide architectural guidance aligned to FedRAMP, CJIS, HIPAA, FERPA, and NIST frameworks.
• Support DevSecOps integration and IAM best practices.
• Guide secure architecture patterns including encryption, network segmentation, and logging.
• Mentor internal engineering teams on AWS architecture best practices.
• Conduct architecture workshops and technical briefings.
• Support backlog prioritization for cloud improvements and adoption initiatives.
• Coordinate with AWS account teams, AWS TAMs, Strategic delivery leadership, and customer engineering leadership.
• 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 certification required.
• 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).
• Proven experience in AWS networking architecture, Identity and Access Management, multi-account governance, Infrastructure-as-Code automation, and cloud security architecture.
• Experience supporting environments involving AWS Organizations, Landing Zone frameworks, DevSecOps pipelines, Hybrid architectures, and Cloud migrations and modernization programs.
• Proficiency in core AWS services including VPC networking, IAM, EC2/EKS/ECS, S3/storage, RDS/Aurora/data platforms, CloudWatch, and AWS Config/Security Hub.
• Experience with Platform & DevOps tools such as Terraform/CloudFormation, CI/CD platforms, container orchestration (EKS/Kubernetes), and GitOps workflows.
• Knowledge of Security & Compliance concepts including encryption architectures, network segmentation, logging and audit frameworks, and regulatory cloud environments.
• Executive-level communication skills.
• Ability to influence architecture decisions.
• Customer advisory mindset.
• Strong technical documentation ability.
• Ability to translate business outcomes into architecture strategies.
• Must be a US citizen.
• Must possess or be capable of obtaining a security clearance.

Skills

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional
• AWS DevOps Engineer Professional
• AWS Security Specialty
• Kubernetes certifications (CKA / CKAD)
• FinOps Practitioner
• AWS networking architecture
• Identity and access management
• Multi-account governance
• Infrastructure-as-code automation
• Cloud security architecture
• AWS Organizations
• Landing Zone frameworks
• DevSecOps pipelines
• Hybrid architectures
• Cloud migrations and modernization programs
• VPC networking architecture
• IAM and security architecture
• EC2 / EKS / ECS
• S3 / storage architectures
• RDS / Aurora / data platforms
• CloudWatch / observability
• AWS Config / Security Hub
• Terraform / CloudFormation
• CI/CD platforms
• Container orchestration (EKS / Kubernetes)
• GitOps workflows
• Encryption architectures
• Network segmentation
• Logging and audit frameworks
• Regulatory cloud environments
• Public Sector / SLED cloud programs
• AWS Professional Services engagement support
• FedRAMP / GovCloud environments
• AI/ML and data platform architectures
• Amazon Connect or digital service architectures
• Large-scale migration programs
• Executive-level communication
• Influence architecture decisions
• Customer advisory
• Technical documentation
• Translate business outcomes to architecture strategies

Location

• Remote
• Hybrid
• Customer Site (U.S.)
• NY/NJ (preferred)

Work Type

• Full Time
• Contract

Experience Level

• Senior
• 8+ years cloud architecture experience
• 5+ years designing and deploying AWS architectures

Education Level

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent experience.

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