Senior Solutions Architect, AWS Public Sector – Army & GenAI

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Raleigh (NC); On-site; USD 154,000 - 208,000; Full time

Job summary

AWS Senior Solutions Architect for the U.S. Army and the broad Department of War designs cloud architectures that address data, security, and mission requirements across AWS services like Amazon EKS, Amazon S3, Amazon EC2, and Bedrock.

You will own engagements from scoping to implementation, guiding strategic decisions, and collaborating with system integrators to deliver scalable, secure solutions. You will frequently travel within the U.S.

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

Education

Associate's degree or higher

Tools

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Amazon EKS

Amazon S3

EC2

Bedrock

GenAI concepts

Job description

AWS Senior Solutions Architect for the U.S. Army and the broad Department of War designs cloud architectures that address data, security, and mission requirements across AWS services like Amazon EKS, Amazon S3, Amazon EC2, and Bedrock.

You will own engagements from scoping to implementation, guiding strategic decisions, and collaborating with system integrators to deliver scalable, secure solutions. You will frequently travel within the U.S.