Senior AWS Cloud Architect – 100% Remote

Peraton; Reston (VA); Remote; USD 112,000 - 179,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage

401(k) with company match

PTO and holidays

Job summary

Peraton is seeking a Sr. AWS Cloud Architect to design, lead, and govern enterprise cloud architecture supporting mission-critical federal programs. This 100% remote role defines target-state architecture on AWS (primary) with Azure as a secondary platform, ensuring FedRAMP Moderate alignment.

You will mentor cloud engineers, drive migration and modernization, implement IaC with Terraform/CloudFormation, and lead security and compliance efforts across SSPs and ATO processes.

Qualifications

• US citizenship required; ability to obtain and maintain a Top-Secret clearance.
• Minimum 12 years work experience with BS/BA in computer science, Information Systems, or a related field (or equivalent experience), Min 10 years with MS/MA
• 8 years of progressive experience in cloud infrastructure/architecture roles on AWS
• Deep hands-on expertise designing AWS solutions, including VPC, IAM, EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, networking/Transit Gateway, KMS, Organizations, Control Tower, PrivateLink, Direct Connect, and Site-to-Site VPN
• Strong grasp of networking, databases, storage, and container tooling on AWS
• Experience with AWS cloud-native security services such as GuardDuty, Security Hub, and Inspector
• Demonstrated experience architecting within FedRAMP Moderate (or FedRAMP High/DoD or similar compliance) environments, with familiarity in NIST 800-53 and NIST 800-171 control families
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar), CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps practices
• Scripting experience (Python, Bash, PowerShell)
• Experience with cloud-native and serverless architectures (Lambda, API Gateway, microservices) and containerization (EKS, ECS, Fargate)
• Experience with hybrid/multi-cloud architecture, including Azure (VNets, Azure AD/Entra ID, SSO/MFA, Azure Policy, Site-to-Site VPN, ExpressRoute, Direct Connect)
• Experience implementing SRE practices and disaster recovery plans
• Experience supporting ATO and continuous monitoring processes with government customers
• Certification: AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate or Professional

Responsibilities

• Design scalable, resilient cloud architectures on AWS with Azure support.
• Develop reference architectures aligned to FedRAMP baselines (NIST 800-53/800-171).
• Lead cloud migration and modernization strategy, workload assessment and cost optimization.
• Evaluate and balance performance, cost, and compliance with cloud-native/hybrid solutions.
• Lead technical gap analyses; support SSPs, architecture diagrams, and ATO documents.
• Develop and implement reusable Infrastructure as Code templates using Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Configure secure CI/CD pipelines and DevSecOps tooling (Azure DevOps, CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy).
• Architect secure identity access boundaries, SSO, MFA, encryption at rest and in transit.
• Build SRE practices and disaster recovery solutions.
• Provide technical mentorship to cloud engineers.

Skills

AWS cloud architecture

FedRAMP/NIST controls

Terraform/CloudFormation

DevSecOps

Security/compliance

Python/Bash/PowerShell scripting

Serverless/microservices

Hybrid/multi-cloud (Azure)

SRE/Disaster recovery

Mentoring/m technical leadership

Education

BS/BA in Computer Science/Information Systems or related field

MS/MA preferred

Tools

Terraform

AWS CloudFormation

Azure DevOps

CodePipeline

CodeBuild

CodeDeploy

EKS/ECS/Fargate

Job description

Peraton is seeking a Sr. AWS Cloud Architect to design, lead, and govern enterprise cloud architecture supporting mission-critical federal programs. This 100% remote role defines target-state architecture on AWS (primary) with Azure as a secondary platform, ensuring FedRAMP Moderate alignment.

You will mentor cloud engineers, drive migration and modernization, implement IaC with Terraform/CloudFormation, and lead security and compliance efforts across SSPs and ATO processes.