Remote Senior AWS Platform Architect

Select Source Solutions; Greenbelt (MD); Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Select Source Solutions is seeking a remote Lead AWS Platform Architect to provide senior technical leadership for a mission-critical cloud platform. The role focuses on AWS, EKS, Terraform, GitOps, CI/CD, security, and federal cloud compliance, with infrastructure managed as code and automated deployment pipelines.

You will own architecture across multi-account AWS environments, guiding secure multi-account landing zones and automated security controls while raising engineering standards across

Qualifications

• 7+ years in cloud infrastructure or platform engineering with production ownership.
• 5+ years hands-on AWS experience.
• Deep hands-on Terraform with reusable modules, remote state, and drift remediation.
• Production-scale Amazon EKS or Kubernetes.
• Kubernetes networking, workload identity, Helm, autoscaling, ingress, and cluster lifecycle.
• Strong AWS services knowledge: VPC, IAM, EKS, S3, RDS/Aurora, Secrets Manager.
• Multi-account AWS architectures and GitOps (Argo CD/Flux).
• CI/CD pipelines design with GitLab CI/CD.
• DevSecOps: automated security scanning, IaC scanning, container scanning, policy-as-code, deployment gates.
• Docker and secure containerized environments.
• Federal frameworks: FISMA, NIST SP 800-53, RMF, and ATO controls.
• Ability to obtain and maintain US government clearance.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a senior technical lead for AWS platform architecture, engineering, security, and automation.
• Own and evolve Terraform across multi-environment and multi-account AWS infrastructure.
• Develop reusable Terraform modules and manage remote state, dependencies, lifecycle, and drift.
• Safely reconcile existing AWS resources with Infrastructure as Code.
• Design, operate, and improve production Amazon EKS environments.
• Manage EKS networking, autoscaling, add-ons, workload identity, Helm, ingress, load balancing, upgrades, and lifecycle.
• Design and maintain secure AWS networking and identity patterns.
• Support IAM, workload identity, network isolation, secrets management, least-privilege access.
• Develop and extend GitOps deployment models using Argo CD, Flux, or comparable tech.
• Design and maintain GitLab CI/CD pipelines for infra and apps.
• Implement automated security controls including SAST, IaC scanning, container scanning, and policy-as-code.
• Support secure container supply-chain practices (image signing, signing).
• Help design federal multi-account AWS landing-zone architecture.
• Cross-account identity, networking, environment isolation, controlled promotion between dev/test/prod.
• Work with AWS services: VPC, IAM, EKS, RDS/Aurora, S3, CloudFront, Secrets Manager, Lambda.
• Support cloud-native, microservices, serverless architectures.
• Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, and security visibility.
• Produce technical evidence for security/ATO activities.
• Troubleshoot complex AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, networking, GitOps, CI/CD, security issues.
• Mentor engineers and provide technical direction.

Skills

Terraform

AWS

Kubernetes

GitOps

CI/CD

Security

Mentoring

Communication

Troubleshooting

Argo CD

Tools

Argo CD

Flux

GitLab CI/CD

Docker

EKS

Terraform

Job description

Select Source Solutions is seeking a remote Lead AWS Platform Architect to provide senior technical leadership for a mission-critical cloud platform. The role focuses on AWS, EKS, Terraform, GitOps, CI/CD, security, and federal cloud compliance, with infrastructure managed as code and automated deployment pipelines.

You will own architecture across multi-account AWS environments, guiding secure multi-account landing zones and automated security controls while raising engineering standards across