Sr. Cloud Solutions Architect with Security Clearance

Key Responsibilities

• Secure Infrastructure Engineering: Design, build, and maintain highly secure, low-attribution internet-based systems engineered to mitigate tracking risks and enhance user anonymity.
• Identity & Access Management: Design, implement, and manage multi-tier PKI hierarchies, ensuring flawless encryption and authentication mechanisms via Root and Subordinate Certificate Authorities (CAs).
• Cloud Architecture & O&M: Provide comprehensive lifecycle support (Tier 1-3) and system upgrades within Amazon Web Services (AWS). Manage cloud compute, relational databases, load balancing, and infrastructure-as-code deployments.
• Risk Management & Compliance: Identify latent technical risks, draft tactical risk mitigation strategies, and help guide complex systems through rigorous accreditation and authorization (A&A) compliance cycles.
• Cross-Platform Administration: Provide robust system administration across a diverse ecosystem including Windows Server, Linux/CentOS, Apple macOS, and iOS environments.
• System Monitoring & Diagnostics: Oversee infrastructure health, audit logs, and proactive alerts across hybrid on-premise and cloud environments.

Required Experience & Technical Skills

• AWS Core Infrastructure: Heavy, hands-on experience utilizing AWS services including EC2, RDS, S3, Elastic Load Balancing, Route 53, and CloudFormation.
• Cloud Security Posture: Advanced implementation of cloud security measures, including IAM roles, security groups, and KMS encryption for data both at rest and in transit.
• Database Administration: Solid experience managing and scaling relational databases within cloud native tools (e.g., AWS RDS, MySQL, Aurora).
• Scripting & Automation: Functional, practical proficiency using Python, Bash, and Ruby on Rails to automate routine sysadmin tasks and workflows.
• Observability & Alerting: Experience building out and monitoring alert pipelines using tools like Datadog and AWS CloudWatch.
• Emerging Tech Architecture: Conceptual understanding of integrating modern technical capabilities—like AI, data analytics engines, and mobile/immersive frameworks (AR/VR)—into high-stakes systems architectures.
• Communication & Delivery: Proven ability to create standard operating procedures, document complex workflows, and deliver technical briefings or demos to executive leadership.

Highly Desired (Bonus) Skills

• Proven background navigating systems through the federal Accreditation & Authorization (A&A) lifecycle.
• Experience operating within a mature DevSecOps pipeline.
• Advanced log aggregation and SIEM experience using Splunk in hybrid cloud/on-prem ecosystems.
• Familiarity with configuring and managing specialized hardware interfaces (e.g., Extron systems).