Senior AWS Cloud Security Architect - Enterprise, TS/SCI

MANTECH; Chantilly (VA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

TS/SCI with Polygraph

Job summary

MANTECH seeks a Principal AWS Cloud Engineer to serve as the primary AWS authority on an enterprise cloud team in Chantilly, VA. You will anchor design, deployment, and security management of the AWS environment with a focus on security monitoring and threat detection.

You will lead IaC deployment with Terraform/CloudFormation, enforce Zero Trust across accounts, and provide Tier 3 escalation support across AWS and connected clouds.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or 4+ years of IT/engineering experience.
• 7+ years of cloud computing/engineering experience.
• Active DoD 8570/8140 IAT Level II or ability to obtain within 30 days.
• Experience securing enterprise AWS environments (EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, Route53, RDS, CloudFront, Lambda).
• Proficiency with Terraform or CloudFormation and scripting via AWS CLI.

Responsibilities

• Serve as principal SME for administration, security hardening, and AWS management.
• Architect, deploy, and optimize automated cloud security monitoring and threat detection pipelines using AWS services.
• Lead IaC/CaC deployments with Terraform or CloudFormation in audited workflows.
• Enforce IAM governance, SCPs, least-privilege access, and Zero Trust across multi-account AWS.
• Provide Tier 3 escalation support for complex AWS, network, security, and perf issues.
• Write automation scripts in Python, Bash, or PowerShell to streamline ops and telemetry.
• Collaborate to align AWS baselines with Azure/OCI and document workflows for audit readiness.

Skills

AWS

Cloud Security

Threat Detection

IAM Governance

Zero Trust

Multi-account Governance

AWS CLI

Python

Bash

PowerShell

Education

Bachelor's degree or 4+ years of IT/engineering experience

Tools

Terraform

AWS CloudFormation

Python

PowerShell

Bash

Git

Job description

MANTECH seeks a Principal AWS Cloud Engineer to serve as the primary AWS authority on an enterprise cloud team in Chantilly, VA. You will anchor design, deployment, and security management of the AWS environment with a focus on security monitoring and threat detection.

You will lead IaC deployment with Terraform/CloudFormation, enforce Zero Trust across accounts, and provide Tier 3 escalation support across AWS and connected clouds.