Cloud Security Architect — AWS, Bedrock & OpenSearch

Booz Allen Hamilton; Fort Meade (MD); On-site; USD 87,000 - 198,000; Full time

Job summary

Booz Allen Hamilton is seeking a Secure Cloud Architect to design and govern AWS environments for mission-critical AI data systems in the Fort Meade area. You will define technical strategy across development, staging, and production, focusing on security, compliance, and operational readiness.

You will drive architecture decisions for Bedrock, OpenSearch, and data services, implement least-privilege IAM, KMS and secrets management, and collaborate with security, data, and DevOps teams to ensure

Qualifications

• Design and govern end-to-end AWS architectures across environments.
• Define IAM least-privilege architectures and policy governance.
• Develop KMS key strategies, encryption standards, and secrets lifecycle practices.
• Assess cloud service integrations for security risks and accreditation patterns.

Responsibilities

• Drive architecture decisions and cross-team tradeoffs.
• Collaborate with security, data, DevOps, and application teams.
• Ensure cloud patterns meet security controls and compliance requirements.
• Lead logging, monitoring, and incident capture integration.

Skills

AWS architecture

IAM security

Security engineering

Cross-team collaboration

Security controls

Threat modeling

Education

HS diploma or GED

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

AWS CDK

Job description

Booz Allen Hamilton is seeking a Secure Cloud Architect to design and govern AWS environments for mission-critical AI data systems in the Fort Meade area. You will define technical strategy across development, staging, and production, focusing on security, compliance, and operational readiness.

You will drive architecture decisions for Bedrock, OpenSearch, and data services, implement least-privilege IAM, KMS and secrets management, and collaborate with security, data, and DevOps teams to ensure