Senior Cloud Architect – Army & GenAI (AWS)

Amazon Inc.; Herndon (VA); On-site; USD 154,000 - 208,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Senior Solutions Architect for the U.S. Army and broader defense sector. You will design end-to-end cloud architectures, advise senior government stakeholders, and lead engagements from scoping to implementation, working with integrators to deliver large-scale data workloads.

The role requires a Top Secret clearance, willingness to travel up to 35%, and deep expertise across security, data, and cloud services such as EKS, S3, EC2, and Bedrock.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience.
• 10+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience.
• 3+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience.
• Associate's degree or above, or CASP+ (CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner) or CCSP (Certified Cloud Security Professional) or Cloud+ or CSSLP (Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional).
• Current, active US Government Security Clearance of Top Secret or above

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end cloud architectures for Army customers, evaluating trade-offs across security, reliability, performance, cost, and operational readiness to meet mission-critical requirements.
• Serve as a trusted technical advisor to senior government stakeholders, building relationships, and guiding their long-term technology strategy while ensuring near-term decisions support broader business outcomes.
• Own technical engagements from initial scoping through implementation, defining solution architectures for large-scale data workloads and working with system integrators and solution providers to deliver results.
• Lead technical discussions with customer and partner teams, proactively identifying high-risk or overly complex options and engaging specialist resources when the situation calls for deeper review.
• Capture and share best practices across the AWS Solutions Architect community by contributing reference designs, reusable artifacts, and thought leadership content such as presentations, workshops, and technical write-ups.

Skills

Cloud computing

Software development

Systems engineering

Security

Networking

Data & analytics

Top Secret clearance

Education

Associate’s degree or above

Security certifications (CASP+/CCSP/CSSLP)

Tools

SAP systems

Cloud architecture

Job description

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Senior Solutions Architect for the U.S. Army and broader defense sector. You will design end-to-end cloud architectures, advise senior government stakeholders, and lead engagements from scoping to implementation, working with integrators to deliver large-scale data workloads.

The role requires a Top Secret clearance, willingness to travel up to 35%, and deep expertise across security, data, and cloud services such as EKS, S3, EC2, and Bedrock.