Mission Cloud Architect: Secure AWS & AI Platforms

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

Job summary

Booz Allen Hamilton seeks a Secure Cloud Architect to lead end-to-end AWS architectures with a focus on security, scalability, and compliance for mission-critical data and AI-enabled systems. You will define technical strategy across development, staging, and production while governing security controls and cost-effective patterns.

Collaborating with security, application, data, and DevOps teams, you will guide architecture decisions, implement Bedrock/OpenSearch patterns, and ensure readiness

Qualifications

• Experience designing and governing end-to-end AWS architectures, including VPC topology, subnet design, routing, and secure connectivity patterns.
• Experience designing identity and access protections, including IAM least privilege architectures, role segmentation, and policy governance.
• Experience designing KMS key strategies, encryption standards, and secrets lifecycle management practices.
• Experience assessing cloud service integrations for security risks, including Amazon Bedrock, OpenSearch, Lambda, ECS or EKS, and cloud data storage services.
• Experience producing architecture decision records and guiding teams through cloud architecture tradeoff decisions.
• Experience interpreting and applying security controls, compliance requirements, and accreditation-aligned architectural patterns.
• Experience integrating logging, monitoring, and security event capture into cloud architectures.
• Ability to communicate complex architectural decisions and collaborate with application, security, data, and DevOps teams.
• TS/SCI clearance
• HS diploma or GED

Skills

AWS architecture

IAM security

KMS keys

Cloud security assessment

Architecture decisions

Security controls

Logging & monitoring

Communication

Security clearance

Education

High school diploma or GED

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

AWS CDK

Job description

Booz Allen Hamilton seeks a Secure Cloud Architect to lead end-to-end AWS architectures with a focus on security, scalability, and compliance for mission-critical data and AI-enabled systems. You will define technical strategy across development, staging, and production while governing security controls and cost-effective patterns.

Collaborating with security, application, data, and DevOps teams, you will guide architecture decisions, implement Bedrock/OpenSearch patterns, and ensure readiness