Remote AWS Resident Architect & Cloud Strategy Lead

Strategic Communications; City of Albany (NY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

401k Plan

Paid Vacation Days

Paid Holidays

Wellness Incentives

Job summary

Strategic Communications seeks a Senior AWS Solutions Architect to act as a Resident Architect for enterprise and public sector engagements. The role emphasizes architectural advisory, governance, and adoption enablement rather than direct delivery.

Responsibilities include validating architectures, guiding platform engineering, and driving modernization aligned with AWS best practices and regulatory requirements. Collaboration with AWS teams and a Center of Excellence is expected.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent experience.
• AWS Solutions Architect – Associate certification required.
• Strong experience in cloud architecture for public sector or regulated environments.
• Experience with AWS networking, IAM, and multi-account governance.
• Proficiency in IaC, CI/CD, and container orchestration (Kubernetes/ECS/EKS).
• Familiarity with FinOps practices and security/compliance patterns.

Responsibilities

• Serve as primary cloud architecture advisor for enterprise and public sector customers.
• Validate architectures against AWS Well-Architected Framework and governance standards.
• Guide platform engineering on IaC, CI/CD, and containerization strategies.
• Lead architectural reviews, risk remediation, and cost optimization initiatives.
• Mentor customer engineering teams and run architecture workshops.

Skills

AWS networking

IAM

Multi-account governance

Infrastructure-as-code

Cloud security

DevSecOps

Kubernetes

EKS / ECS

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

GitOps

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Strategic Communications seeks a Senior AWS Solutions Architect to act as a Resident Architect for enterprise and public sector engagements. The role emphasizes architectural advisory, governance, and adoption enablement rather than direct delivery.

Responsibilities include validating architectures, guiding platform engineering, and driving modernization aligned with AWS best practices and regulatory requirements. Collaboration with AWS teams and a Center of Excellence is expected.