Senior AWS Cloud Architect – Sovereign Landing Zone

General Dynamics Corporation; Ottawa; Hybrid; CAD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive medical, dental, vision

EFAP and onsite fitness facilities

Pension plan with employer matching

Flexible time off

Learning and professional memberships

Job summary

General Dynamics Mission SystemsCanada is seeking a Principal, Cloud Engineering AWS Manager to own the design, build, and operation of our sovereign AWS Canada estate. Reporting to the CDIO, you will set guardrails, code the standards, and run the environment to meet security and compliance requirements.

The role anchors the organization's AWS capability, transitioning landing-zone ops in-house and mentoring the evolving cloud team to deliver secure, scalable platforms across Canada.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 10 years of experience in cloud or infrastructure architecture, with deep, demonstrable expertise designing, building, and operating production AWS environments at scale.
• Expert command of AWS landing-zone design, including AWS Organizations, Control Tower, multi-account architecture, core networking, and security services.
• Strong Infrastructure as Code and automation capability, ideally with Terraform, together with hands-on experience of CI/CD and policy-as-code.
• Proven experience securing and operating cloud within a regulated environment, with a working understanding of the compliance frameworks and change discipline it demands.
• The ability to own outcomes end to end and operate autonomously, and to present platform direction and trade-offs to an executive audience.
• A senior AWS certification, such as Solutions Architect Professional or DevOps Engineer Professional, or equivalent demonstrable expertise.
• Demonstrated mentorship capabilities

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture, build, and lifecycle of the sovereign AWS Canada landing zone.
• Design and implement core platform networking, including VPC design, Transit Gateway, and Direct Connect connectivity into on-premises and enclave environments.
• Establish platform standards, reference patterns, and the roadmap that balance quality against the constraints of a controlled environment.
• Lead the transition of landing-zone operations from the managed-service provider to an in-house model.
• Define the operating model, runbooks, and standards required to run the platform sustainably.
• Enable data, AI, and application workloads to land on the platform securely and efficiently.
• Anchor and mentor the AWS capability as it grows, providing the technical foundation for a future in-house cloud team.

Skills

AWS landing-zone design

CI/CD

Automation

Autonomy

Tools

Terraform

Control Tower

AWS

Job description

General Dynamics Mission SystemsCanada is seeking a Principal, Cloud Engineering AWS Manager to own the design, build, and operation of our sovereign AWS Canada estate. Reporting to the CDIO, you will set guardrails, code the standards, and run the environment to meet security and compliance requirements.

The role anchors the organization's AWS capability, transitioning landing-zone ops in-house and mentoring the evolving cloud team to deliver secure, scalable platforms across Canada.