Senior Cloud Architect

📋 Description

• Design and own end-to-end cloud architecture for enterprise-scale, n-tier, service-oriented apps supporting DoD vetting workflows
• Lead architecture decisions across AWS infrastructure, ensuring scalable, resilient, secure, and cost-optimized solutions
• Define integration patterns and standards for COTS ecosystems within classified government environments
• Collaborate with software engineers, security engineers, and DevSecOps teams to translate architectural vision into executable designs
• Provide technical guidance on cloud migration, modernization strategies, and emerging cloud-native technologies
• Participate in architecture review boards and produce ADRs, system context diagrams, and interface control documents

🎯 Requirements

• AWS Solutions Architect certification (Associate or Professional) required
• 10+ years designing enterprise-level, n-tier SOA with COTS
• AWS services: EC2, ECS/EKS, RDS, S3, IAM, VPC, CDK, GovCloud
• Experience in classified/DoD IL4/IL5/IL6 cloud environments
• Strong understanding of microservices, API gateway, event-driven, and distributed systems
• Certifications per DoD 8140.01 and DoD 8570.01-M
• Familiarity with Zero Trust Architecture principles in DoD environments (Highly preferred)
• Additional cloud certifications (AWS DevOps Engineer, AWS Security Specialty, or equivalent) (Highly preferred)

🎁 Benefits

• Highly competitive salary
• Fully covered healthcare, dental, and vision coverage
• 401(k) and company match
• Take as you need PTO + 11 paid holidays
• Education & training benefits
• Generous Referral Bonuses