Sr. AWS Cloud Architect
Peraton · UNAVAILABLE, UNAVAILABLE, US
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## Sr. AWS Cloud Architect (100% Remote) ### Company Overview Peraton is a next-generation national security company delivering trusted, differentiated solutions and enterprise IT capabilities for mission-critical federal programs. ### Responsibilities - **Systems Design:** Design and document scalable, resilient, and secure cloud architectures (AWS primary; Azure secondary), including blueprints, diagrams, and strategies. - **Compliant Architecture:** Develop reference architectures and design patterns aligned to **FedRAMP Moderate** control baselines (**NIST 800-53** and **NIST 800-171**). - **Migration & Modernization:** Lead cloud migration and modernization, including workload assessment, right-sizing, and cost optimization. - **Cost & Performance Optimization:** Recommend cloud-native and hybrid solutions balancing performance, cost, and compliance. - **ATO & System Security Plans:** Perform technical gap analysis, support automated control mapping, and help develop/maintain **SSPs**, architecture diagrams, and ATO documentation. - **Automation (IaC):** Build reusable Infrastructure as Code templates using **Terraform** and/or **AWS CloudFormation**. - **DevSecOps Integration:** Configure secure CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and containerization (e.g., **Azure DevOps**, **AWS CodePipeline/CodeBuild/CodeDeploy**, and security tooling). - **Identity & Data Protection:** Architect secure identity boundaries, MFA, SSO, network firewalls, and encryption for data at rest and in transit. - **SRE & Disaster Recovery:** Establish SRE practices and disaster recovery solutions. - **Technical Mentorship:** Provide technical leadership and mentorship to cloud engineering teams. ### Required Qualifications - **US citizenship required**; ability to obtain and maintain a **Top-Secret eligible clearance** - **12+ years** experience with BS/BA in CS, Information Systems, or related field (or equivalent) - **10+ years** with MS/MA - **8+ years** progressive experience in **AWS cloud infrastructure/architecture** - Deep hands-on expertise with AWS services and architecture components including **VPC, IAM, EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, Transit Gateway, KMS, Organizations, Control Tower, PrivateLink, Direct Connect, Site-to-Site VPN** - Strong networking, database, storage, and container tooling knowledge on AWS - Experience with AWS security services such as **GuardDuty, Security Hub, Inspector** - Demonstrated experience architecting in **FedRAMP Moderate** (or FedRAMP High/DoD or similar) environments; familiarity with **NIST 800-53** and **NIST 800-171** - Experience with **IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation)**, **CI/CD**, and DevOps practices - Scripting experience: **Python, Bash, PowerShell** - Experience with cloud-native/serverless and containerization (e.g., **Lambda, API Gateway, microservices; EKS/ECS/Fargate**) - Hybrid/multi-cloud experience including **Azure** (VNets, Azure AD/Entra ID, SSO/MFA, Azure Policy, Site-to-Site VPN, ExpressRoute, Direct Connect) - Experience implementing **SRE** and disaster recovery plans - Experience supporting **ATO** and continuous monitoring processes with government customers - **Certification:** AWS Certified Solutions Architect — **Associate or Professional** ### Preferred Qualifications - AWS Certified Solutions Architect — **Professional** - Experience with **Databricks** implementation/support - **Azure Solutions Architect Expert** - Experience with **Microsoft .NET** and **SQL Server** - Experience with **De
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