Senior Cloud Architect, AWS for Army Missions

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

Job summary

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Senior Solutions Architect to work with U.S. Army customers and partners to design end-to-end cloud architectures that balance security, performance, and cost for mission-critical workloads. You will own engagements from scoping to implementation, guiding solutions across a wide range of AWS services and leading discussions with government stakeholders.

Travel up to 35% within the U.S. and overseas will be required.

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
• 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

Solutions architecture

Security

Education

Associate's degree or above, CASP+ or CCSP or Cloud+ or CSSLP

Job description

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Senior Solutions Architect to work with U.S. Army customers and partners to design end-to-end cloud architectures that balance security, performance, and cost for mission-critical workloads. You will own engagements from scoping to implementation, guiding solutions across a wide range of AWS services and leading discussions with government stakeholders.

Travel up to 35% within the U.S. and overseas will be required.