Expert System Architect - Hybrid Gold River, CA

Summary

You will serve as the senior technical authority for AWS-based infrastructure architecture, guiding the design, implementation, and optimization of secure, scalable, and resilient cloud platforms. This role blends strategic architecture leadership with hands-on engineering depth, ensuring that mission-critical systems—particularly large public-sector workloads—are built on a robust AWS foundation aligned with security, compliance, and operational excellence.

Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of AWS infrastructure solutions

• Emphasize security, scalability, and high availability
• Oversee application runtime and platform capabilities using cloud-native and cloud-agnostic patterns, with a strong preference for AWS-managed services
• Architect and deploy multi-account AWS environments, including VPC design, IAM strategy, network segmentation, encryption, and monitoring
• Partner with platform and product engineering teams to deliver application solutions requiring web applications, integration layers, API platforms, and secure data flows
• Provide advanced technical support and ensure reliable operation of AWS cloud environments, including incident response and root-cause analysis
• Troubleshoot complex distributed systems, containerized workloads, and integrations across AWS services

Maintain deep technical knowledge of AWS services, infrastructure platforms, and emerging cloud capabilities

• Develop and enforce technical standards, reference architectures, and best practices for AWS infrastructure, security, and operations
• Evaluate and test vendor technologies, third-party tools, and cloud-native services for alignment with enterprise architecture
• Translate business requirements into technical architectures, selecting the right AWS tools and patterns to meet client needs
• Participate in system design reviews, capacity planning, platform governance, and launch readiness assessments
• Collaborate with Site Reliability Engineering teams and stay current on trends such as observability-driven development, chaos engineering, and automated resilience testing

Apply strong organizational, analytical, and leadership skills to guide teams and influence technical direction

• Guide teams and influence technical direction
• Shape enterprise cloud strategy and influence long-term platform direction

What We're Looking For

• Ten or more years of experience in architecture, engineering, or software development, with significant focus on cloud infrastructure
• Deep expertise in AWS services, including networking, security, compute, storage, container orchestration, and identity management
• AWS Solutions Architect certification (Professional preferred) and demonstrated hands-on capability designing and deploying AWS workloads
• Three or more years supporting large public-sector platforms
• Experience with microservices architectures, container runtimes (Docker), and orchestration platforms (Kubernetes, OpenShift, or AWS EKS)
• Strong understanding of cloud security, including IAM, KMS, encryption, network security, and compliance frameworks
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments and contributing to iterative delivery
• Ability to communicate effectively across cross-functional teams and up to executive leadership

What You Should Expect

• HYBRID ROLE: Considering applicants who live within a 30+ mile radius of Gold River, California who are able to work onsite 2 days per week. May require additional onsite to attend meetings and collaborations in the office as needed.
• Video cameras must be used during all interviews, as well as during the initial week of orientation
• Collaboration with distributed engineering, product, and security teams
• Opportunity to shape enterprise cloud strategy and influence long-term platform direction

Pay Range

The pay range for this position is $127,100.00 - $181,600.00 per year, however, the base pay offered may vary depending on geographic region, internal equity, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors.