Senior Cloud Solutions Architect

Job Responsibilities

• Design resilient cloud architectures utilizing multi-Availability Zone (AZ) and multi-Region deployment strategies.
• Carry out AWS Well-Architected Reviews with a focus on the Reliability Pillar.
• Implement and validate resilience strategies through chaos engineering exercises and game day events.
• Develop operational runbooks, monitoring strategies, and disaster recovery procedures.
• Facilitate resilience assessments, architecture reviews, and customer workshops.
• Translate technical resilience concepts into business value for technical and executive stakeholders.
• Develop and maintain architecture decision records (ADRs), resilience documentation, standard operating procedures (SOPs), and operational documentation.
• Collaborate with customer engineering, security, and operations teams to improve cloud resiliency.
• Mentor customer teams on resilience best practices and operational maturity.
• Build and maintain strong customer relationships while providing executive-level status reporting and technical guidance.

Minimum Requirements

• Active TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph required.
• Experience conducting AWS Well-Architected Reviews with a focus on the Reliability Pillar.
• Experience facilitating resilience assessments, architecture reviews, workshops, and game day exercises.
• Experience communicating technical resilience concepts to business and executive stakeholders.
• Experience developing architecture decision records (ADRs), resilience runbooks, and standard operating procedures.
• Experience managing customer relationships and providing executive-level reporting.
• Experience collaborating with engineering, security, and operations teams.
• Experience mentoring customer teams on cloud resilience best practices and operational maturity.
• Experience developing and implementing AWS-based systems, including leading at least one implementation effort.
• Minimum of five (5) years of experience utilizing software development tools and methodologies.

Desired Skills

• Hands-on experience with AWS Resilience Hub, including resilience assessments and policy management.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional and/or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional.
• Experience supporting regulated environments, including FedRAMP and IL4/IL5.
• Familiarity with NIST SP 800-160 and DoD Mission Assurance frameworks.
• Experience implementing Service Control Policies (SCPs) and multi-account resilience governance.
• Experience supporting Orange and Purple Cloud PMO capabilities and Authorization Frameworks.
• Prior AWS Professional Services (ProServe) or consulting delivery experience with large enterprise customers.
• Hands-on experience with third-party resilience platforms such as Gremlin or LitmusChaos.

Work Location

Primary Work Location: AWS IAD21 (Herndon, Virginia) and customer site in the vicinity of Springfield, Virginia.

Work Environment

Must be willing to work in a SCIF at the AWS Herndon or Springfield customer site up to 100% of the work week.

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