AWS Solutions Architect
Listed on 2026-10-16
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IT/Tech
AWS, Cloud Computing: Infrastructure & Operations
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UNIVERSAL Technologies is seeking an experienced AWS Solutions Architect for a 50%
hybrid role (100% onsite candidates preferably) in Albany, NY to lead the architecture, design, and implementation of secure, scalable, and reliable AWS cloud solutions.
Active Linked In preferred. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience with enterprise AWS environments, cloud integrations, infrastructure automation, security, and technical leadership. This role requires strong collaboration with stakeholders, technical teams, and vendors to deliver effective cloud solutions aligned with enterprise architecture and operational standards.
Full-Time transitioning to Part-Time
- Year 1: 40 hours per week
- Year 2: 30 hours per week
- Year 3: 20 hours per week
UNIVERSAL Technologies, LLC is a certified Women-Owned Business Enterprise (M/WBE) providing IT consulting and staffing solutions to government agencies and private-sector organizations. Our expertise includes Application Development, Business and Systems Analysis, Data Analytics, Project Management, Cybersecurity, Infrastructure and Network Engineering, and Enterprise Systems Architecture.
WHAT WE OFFER- Competitive compensation
- Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance
- Group Life Insurance
- 401(k) Retirement Plan
- Health Savings Account (HSA) and Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
- Generous Paid Time Off and Holiday Benefits
- Minimum of 10+ years of related experience.
- Minimum of 2+ years of supervisory experience.
- Demonstrated experience designing and implementing production AWS solutions in complex enterprise environments.
- Strong knowledge of AWS compute, storage, networking, security, serverless, integration, data, monitoring, and governance services.
- Experience designing secure REST or GraphQL APIs, event-driven architectures, and integrations using authentication and authorization standards such as OAuth 2.0 and JSON Web Tokens (JWT).
- Experience with AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) design, encryption, secrets management, logging, monitoring, and multi-account governance.
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and automated delivery using tools such as AWS Cloud Formation, Terraform, AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK), and CI/CD pipelines.
- Strong understanding of availability, resiliency, disaster recovery, performance, observability, security, and cloud cost-management practices.
- Ability to produce clear architecture diagrams and technical specifications and communicate effectively with executive, business, and technical stakeholders.
- Experience leading technical teams and reviewing work performed by vendors, subcontractors, or system integrators.
- AWS Solutions Architect certification is strongly preferred; professional-level certification is a significant plus.
- Experience establishing enterprise AWS landing zones, multi-account environments, governance controls, and reusable platform patterns.
- Experience integrating enterprise Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Electronic Health Record (EHR), data warehouse, lakehouse, or analytics platforms.
- Experience supporting public-sector, healthcare, Medicaid, or other regulated environments, including sensitive or protected data.
- Experience developing production backend services is a plus.
- Additional AWS security, networking, Dev Ops, or data-focused certifications are a plus.
- Lead the architecture and technical design of secure, scalable, reliable, and supportable AWS-based applications, integrations, data platforms, reporting solutions, and cloud workloads.
- Collaborate with business analysts, stakeholders, and technical teams to translate approved business and technical requirements into detailed AWS architectures and implementation specifications.
- Design API-based, event-driven, scheduled, and other integration patterns among AWS services, enterprise systems, SaaS platforms, vendor solutions, and authorized data sources.
- Define service selection, data flows, network and account topology, identity and access models, encryption, logging, monitoring, resiliency, backup, disaster recovery, and cost-control approaches.
- Develop reusable reference architectures, integration patterns,…
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