Senior Cloud Architect - Defense (AWS)

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

Job summary

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Senior Solutions Architect in the World Wide Public Sector to design cloud architectures for U.S. Army customers, leveraging services like EKS, S3, EC2 and Bedrock, and advising on generative AI to accelerate missions.

Travel up to 35% domestically and overseas; must be a U.S. citizen and able to obtain Top Secret clearance. You will own engagements from scoping to implementation, collaborating with system integrators to deliver scalable data workloads.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in technology domains such as cloud computing or security.
• 10+ years IT development or implementation/consulting experience.
• 3+ years designing or implementing applications/infrastructures.

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 architecture design

Security & compliance

Stakeholder engagement

Generative AI knowledge

Education

Associate degree or higher

Job description

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Senior Solutions Architect in the World Wide Public Sector to design cloud architectures for U.S. Army customers, leveraging services like EKS, S3, EC2 and Bedrock, and advising on generative AI to accelerate missions.

Travel up to 35% domestically and overseas; must be a U.S. citizen and able to obtain Top Secret clearance. You will own engagements from scoping to implementation, collaborating with system integrators to deliver scalable data workloads.