Senior AWS Solutions Architect - Public Sector Lead (Hybrid)

Cloud & Things Inc; City of Schenectady (NY); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 145,000; Full time

Job summary

Cloud and Things in Schenectady, NY is seeking an experienced AWS Solutions Architect to lead secure, scalable AWS designs for NYS OPWDD. You will guide engineering and DevOps, ensure governance, and drive architecture decisions across multiple AWS services.

The role emphasizes design leadership, cross-team collaboration, and adherence to security standards while working in a hybrid onsite model with strong client preference for onsite presence.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional AWS solution design and implementation in enterprise environments.
• Supervisory experience including technical leadership and vendor reviews.
• Strong knowledge of AWS compute, storage, networking, security and governance.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture and design for AWS applications, data platforms, and workloads.
• Translate requirements into AWS architectures and implementation specs.
• Define services, topology, identity, encryption, observability, DR, and cost controls.
• Develop reference architectures and templates for reuse.
• Guide AWS data engineering and DevOps teams through design reviews.

Skills

AWS cloud expertise

Leadership

Communication

Problem solving

Security governance

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

AWS services

CloudFormation

Terraform

CI/CD

Job description

Cloud and Things in Schenectady, NY is seeking an experienced AWS Solutions Architect to lead secure, scalable AWS designs for NYS OPWDD. You will guide engineering and DevOps, ensure governance, and drive architecture decisions across multiple AWS services.

The role emphasizes design leadership, cross-team collaboration, and adherence to security standards while working in a hybrid onsite model with strong client preference for onsite presence.