AWS-Focused Technical BA: Cloud Migration & Requirements

ActioNet; Suitland (MD); Hybrid; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Vision Insurance

Life and AD&D Insurance

401(k) Savings Plan

Education and Professional Training

Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)

Employee Referral and MeritRecognition

Employee Assistance and Identity Theft

Paid Holidays

PTO

Job summary

ActioNet is seeking a Technical Business Analyst (AWS focus) to bridge business needs and technical teams within a federal IT environment. The role involves gathering requirements, writing user stories, and supporting cloud modernization and migration discussions in Suitland, MD (hybrid with 2 days on-site).

The candidate should have 2–5 years of BA experience, basic cloud concepts (AWS preferred), and strong communication to collaborate with stakeholders, architects, and developers while

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in IT, business, CS or related field.
• 2–5 years in BA or similar requirements-focused role.
• Basic understanding of cloud concepts (AWS preferred).
• Familiar with EC2, S3, and RDS concepts.
• Strong communication with stakeholders.
• Experience writing requirements, user stories, and process docs.
• Familiar with Agile and Jira/Confluence.

Responsibilities

• Conduct stakeholder interviews and gather requirements for application and infrastructure initiatives.
• Document business needs in user stories, flows, and specifications.
• Support cloud migration discovery by addressing architecture, data, security and performance needs.
• Translate requirements into high-level cloud components (compute, storage, database, networking).
• Collaborate with cloud architects, engineers, and devs to refine designs.
• Identify dependencies, risks, and constraints for migration or modernization efforts.
• Develop and maintain requirements traceability matrices, meeting notes, and workflows.
• Support Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, backlog refinement and demos.
• Ensure requirements align with security, compliance, and federal IT standards.

Skills

Business analysis

Communication

Requirements writing

Agile methodologies

AWS concepts

EC2 concepts

S3 concepts

RDS concepts

Jira

Confluence

Federal/regulatory

Cloud migration

Networking basics

Security basics

App architecture

AWS Practitioner cert

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Business, Computer Science, or related field

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

ActioNet is seeking a Technical Business Analyst (AWS focus) to bridge business needs and technical teams within a federal IT environment. The role involves gathering requirements, writing user stories, and supporting cloud modernization and migration discussions in Suitland, MD (hybrid with 2 days on-site).

The candidate should have 2–5 years of BA experience, basic cloud concepts (AWS preferred), and strong communication to collaborate with stakeholders, architects, and developers while