Solutions Architecture & Sales Engineering - Cloud Security Clearance

Position: Solutions Architecture & Sales Engineering - Cloud with Security Clearance
Position Summary:

Aleut Federal is seeking a senior, market-facing technical leader specializing in cloud architecture and modernization across AWS and Azure within U.S. federal environments. This role operates across the full lifecycle - from opportunity shaping and technical solutioning through capture, proposal development, pricing, and post-award delivery assurance. The successful candidate will directly influence technical win strategies while maintaining accountability for delivery execution.

The ideal candidate is a hands-on cloud architect who can design secure, scalable environments, lead modernization and migration efforts, and translate cloud capabilities into mission and operational outcomes. This role requires deep, hands-on expertise in one cloud platform (AWS or Azure) and demonstrated ability to architect across both environments. This is a build, sell, and validate role with direct impact on growth and delivery outcomes.

Core Responsibilities Growth, Sales Engineering & Solutioning
* Lead technical solutioning for cloud-based federal opportunities, including application modernization, migration strategies, platform engineering, and shared services.
* Directly influence and help drive technical wins by defining cloud architecture discriminators, leading customer-facing architecture sessions, workshops, and whiteboarding engagements, and translating cloud capabilities into mission, performance, and cost outcomes.
* Partner with Business Development and Capture to shape opportunities pre-RFP and present and defend cloud architectures to technical and executive stakeholders. AI-Enabled Engineering (Required)
* Aleut Federal expects AI to be embedded into cloud solutions as a core capability for both growth and delivery.
* Design and support AI-enabled cloud architectures, including scalable data processing, model hosting, API-based AI services, and AI-enabled automation and operational optimization.
* Leverage native cloud AI services and integrate external AI platforms where appropriate.
* Support orchestration of AI-driven workflows within cloud environments and enable multi-step processing and decision pipelines.

* Required:

experience working with AI/ML services within cloud environments. Strongly preferred for Senior Principal: delivery of AI-enabled cloud architectures in production with measurable outcomes.
* Ensure AI implementations align with federal requirements for security, compliance, transparency, and auditability. Capture, Proposal & Pricing
* Lead and contribute to technical proposal development for cloud opportunities.
* Author and own complete technical sections, including cloud architecture, landing zones, migration and modernization strategy, and security and governance models.
* Build BOEs aligned to infrastructure cost, migration effort, and operational overhead.
* Ensure solutions are executable, cost-efficient, and differentiated. Delivery Assurance & Technical QA
* Ensure alignment between proposed cloud architectures and delivered implementations.
* Provide technical oversight during migration, environment setup, deployment, and scaling.
* Identify and mitigate risks related to security, compliance, cost overruns, performance, and scalability. Technical Marketing, Thought Leadership & Industry Engagement
* Develop cloud-focused solution briefs, reference architectures, and capability messaging.
* Actively participate in external engagements, including industry events, customer briefings, and technical forums, and be willing to speak on modernization strategies and architecture patterns.
* Position Aleut Federal as a credible cloud transformation partner.

Required Qualifications
* S. Citizenship (U.S. Citizens only).
* 7+ years of U.S. federal experience with a Bachelor's degree.
* Deep, hands-on expertise in one cloud platform (AWS or Azure required), with demonstrated ability to architect across both environments.
* Experience designing secure cloud architectures and supporting technical solutioning, capture, and proposal development.
* Ability to obtain a Position of Public Trust.

Preferred Qualifications
* Experience with AWS Gov Cloud and/or Azure Government environments.
* Experience supporting large-scale federal cloud migrations.
* Experience integrating Dev Sec Ops  practices in cloud environments.
* Experience supporting AI/ML workloads in cloud platforms.
* Active Top Secret clearance. Certifications (Desired, Representative of Level)
* AWS Solutions Architect - Professional
* AWS Dev Ops Engineer - Professional
* Azure Solutions Architect Expert
* Azure Dev Ops Engineer Expert Position Profile Summary
* Cloud architecture-focused
* Deep in one platform, capable across both
* Growth-driven with direct impact on technical wins
* Hands-on and delivery accountable
* AI-enabled Salary Range: $150,000-$225,000 We will accept applications for this position until May 25, 2026, at 11:59 p.m. EST. Aleut offers the following benefits to eligible employees:
* Health…