Senior Cloud Architect & Delivery Lead - AWS Modernization

Peraton; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Peraton is seeking a Senior Lead / Delivery Lead Cloud Architect to steer the design, implementation, and delivery of cloud solutions for a CMS modernization initiative. The role focuses on architecting a POC cloud environment on CMS AWS, ensuring CMS security and performance requirements are met, and guiding cross‑functional teams.

You will lead cloud architecture design, deployment, and validation activities, integrating legacy components into a scalable cloud ecosystem, and providing

Qualifications

• 8+ years with BS/BA or 12+ years with high school diploma.
• Experience architecting and delivering solutions on AWS.
• Experience migrating applications to AWS and integrating with legacy systems.
• Hands-on experience with IaC tools (Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Experience leading cloud delivery teams or large modernization efforts.
• Strong cloud security, IAM, networking, encryption, and performance engineering in AWS.

Responsibilities

• Lead cloud architecture design and delivery for the CMS modernization POC in AWS.
• Develop architecture specifications to support POC validation and integration demonstrations.
• Design and optimize cloud infrastructure following AWS best practices and the Well-Architected Framework.
• Oversee provisioning, configuration, and operational readiness to meet CMS requirements.
• Collaborate with application, data, security, and CMS stakeholders for legacy integration.
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and governance through the POC execution.

Skills

Cloud architecture

AWS Well-Architected Framework

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

Leadership

Agile

Communication

Education

BS/BA preferred

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Docker

CMS AWS

Job description

Peraton is seeking a Senior Lead / Delivery Lead Cloud Architect to steer the design, implementation, and delivery of cloud solutions for a CMS modernization initiative. The role focuses on architecting a POC cloud environment on CMS AWS, ensuring CMS security and performance requirements are met, and guiding cross‑functional teams.

You will lead cloud architecture design, deployment, and validation activities, integrating legacy components into a scalable cloud ecosystem, and providing