Senior Cloud Architect — AWS/DoD, Onsite in Arlington

Saliense; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

PTO 20 days

Sick & Safe Time 40 hours

Health insurance

Vision insurance

Dental insurance

Life insurance

401(k) with tiered match

Parental leave

Professional development reimbursement

Job summary

Saliense is seeking a Cloud Architecture and Solution Design Lead in Arlington, VA, 100% onsite. You will drive enterprise cloud strategy, design, and governance for ONR, overseeing AWS-based and hybrid deployments that meet mission requirements.

You will mentor engineers, establish standards, and guide secure, scalable solutions while managing incidents and cost optimization. This role requires DoD compliance expertise and strong leadership.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of relevant experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in Enterprise Architecture, Computer Science or IT.
• DoD IASAE Level II (8570) certification.
• Enterprise Architecture certification.

Responsibilities

• Deliver secure, scalable AWS and hybrid solutions for DoD missions.
• Set cloud architecture standards and reference architectures.
• Review environments and drive improvements in performance, security and cost.
• Mentor cloud engineers, sysadmins, developers and cybersecurity staff.
• Lead architecture decisions from planning through operational sustainment.
• Design complex network topologies incl. VPC peering and VPN.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Solution design

Leadership

Mentoring

Governance

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Enterprise Architecture, Computer Science or IT

DoD IASAE Level II certification

Enterprise Architecture Certification

Tools

AWS

Terraform

CloudFormation

OpenSearch

CodePipeline

CodeBuild

AWS CLI

System Manager

Job description

Saliense is seeking a Cloud Architecture and Solution Design Lead in Arlington, VA, 100% onsite. You will drive enterprise cloud strategy, design, and governance for ONR, overseeing AWS-based and hybrid deployments that meet mission requirements.

You will mentor engineers, establish standards, and guide secure, scalable solutions while managing incidents and cost optimization. This role requires DoD compliance expertise and strong leadership.