Cloud Architect

About the role

Pursue a career at Parsons where you can thrive, work with exceptional people, and be yourself. Guided by our leadership vision of valuing people, embracing agility, and fostering growth, we cultivate an innovative culture that empowers you to achieve your full potential.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement reference architectures for AWS and hybrid environments (cloud + on-prem virtualization).
• Define deployment patterns for multi-account and multi-environment separation, network segmentation, and scalable compute/storage stacks.
• Establish standardized “landing zone” practices, including account structure, guardrails, logging, tagging, and cost controls.
• Build and maintain Terraform modules and reusable IaC patterns for AWS infrastructure, including VPCs, IAM roles/policies, load balancing, and logging foundations.
• Architect and support virtualized compute fleets using VMware/vSphere patterns for on-prem environments, including golden images, patching baselines, and provisioning workflows.
• Partner with security teams to implement secure-by-design architectures, including least privilege IAM, encryption, and centralized audit logging.
• Design for resilience and continuity with backup/restore strategies, disaster recovery considerations, and multi-AZ patterns.
• Support CI/CD enablement for infrastructure deployments using Git-based workflows integrated with Terraform plans/applies.
• Collaborate with application teams to provide standardized environments and deployment blueprints.
• Produce clear architecture documentation, including logical/physical diagrams, environment definitions, and “as-built” artifacts.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in related field. 4 additional years of experience will substitute in lieu of degree.
• 10-15+ years of experience in cloud architecture, systems engineering, or infrastructure engineering, including 3+ years as a hands-on AWS architect/lead.
• Deep expertise with AWS core services and secure architectures (networking, IAM, logging, compute, storage).
• Hands-on expertise with Terraform for production-grade IaC (modules, state management, promotion strategies, drift detection).
• Experience designing and operating hybrid environments (cloud + on-prem virtualization).
• Ability to translate requirements into scalable, maintainable, and secure architectures while providing implementation guidance.
• Ability to travel internationally up to 10%.

Desired Skills

• AWS certifications (Solutions Architect Professional preferred).
• Experience with VMware/vSphere architecture and operations (templates, clusters, networking, storage).
• Familiarity with configuration automation tools (Ansible, Packer) and GitOps-style workflows.
• Experience with observability patterns (metrics/logs/traces) and integrating monitoring into operations.
• Experience implementing multi-account AWS governance (Organizations, SCPs) and cost controls (tagging, budgets).

Benefits

Parsons offers best-in-class benefits such as medical, dental, vision, paid time off, Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), 401(k), life insurance, flexible work schedules, and holidays to fit your busy lifestyle!

Pay

$176,900.00 - $332,400.00

Schedule

This position is part of our Federal Solutions team. The Federal Solutions segment delivers resources to our US government customers that ensure the success of missions around the globe. Our intelligent employees drive the state of the art as they provide services and solutions in the areas of defense, security, intelligence, infrastructure, and environmental. We promote a culture of excellence and close-knit teams that take pride in delivering, protecting, and sustaining our nation's most critical assets, from Earth to cyberspace.