Sr. AWS Cloud Architect
Job in
Boise, Ada County, Idaho, 83701, USA
Listed on 2026-08-07
Listing for:
Peraton
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-08-07
Job specializations:
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IT/Tech
Cloud Computing: Infrastructure & Operations, Systems Engineer, Cybersecurity, AWS
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Responsibilities
Peraton is seeking a Sr. AWS Cloud Architect to design, lead, and govern enterprise cloud architecture supporting mission-critical federal programs. This role defines the target-state cloud architecture across AWS (primary) and Azure (secondary), ensuring solutions meet FedRAMP Moderate security and compliance requirements. The Cloud Architect serves as the technical subject matter expert (SME) for cloud design decisions, partnering closely with Cloud Computing, Application Development, Data Science, Infrastructure, and Cybersecurity Engineering teams and stakeholders.
This position is 100% remote.
Responsibilities- Systems Design: Design and document scalable, resilient, and secure cloud architectures (blueprints, diagrams, and strategies) on AWS, with secondary integration and support for Azure workloads
- Compliant Architecture: Develop and implement 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 strategy, including workload assessment, right-sizing, and cost optimization
- Cost & Performance Optimization: Evaluate and recommend cloud-native and hybrid solutions that balance performance, cost, and compliance
- ATO & System Security Plans: Lead technical gap analysis, partner with the cloud security team, execute automated control mapping, and support development and maintenance of System Security Plans (SSPs), architecture diagrams, and other ATO documentation
- Automation (IaC): Develop and implement reusable Infrastructure as Code templates using Terraform or AWS Cloud Formation to ensure continuous compliance and rapid deployment
- Dev Sec Ops Integration: Configure secure CI/CD pipelines, monitoring solutions, and containerization using tools such as Azure Dev Ops and AWS-native services (Code Pipeline, Code Build, Code Deploy) and other security tooling
- Identity & Data Protection: Architect secure identity access boundaries, multi-factor authentication, single sign-on (SSO), network firewalls, and encryption schemas for data at rest and in transit
- SRE & Disaster Recovery: Build site reliability engineering (SRE) practices and disaster recovery solutions.
- Technical Mentorship: Provide technical leadership and mentorship to cloud engineers
Required Qualifications:
- US citizenship required; ability to obtain and maintain a Top-Secret eligible clearance
- Minimum 12 years work experience with BS/BA in computer science, Information Systems, or a related field (or equivalent experience), Min 10 years with MS/MA
- 8 years of progressive experience in cloud infrastructure/architecture roles on AWS
- Deep hands-on expertise designing AWS solutions, including VPC, IAM, EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, networking/Transit Gateway, KMS, Organizations, Control Tower, Private Link, Direct Connect, and Site-to-Site VPN
- Strong grasp of networking, databases, storage, and container tooling on AWS
- Experience with AWS cloud-native security services such as Guard Duty, Security Hub, and Inspector
- Demonstrated experience architecting within FedRAMP Moderate (or FedRAMP High/DoD or similar compliance) environments, with familiarity in NIST 800-53 and NIST 800-171 control families
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Cloud Formation, or similar), CI/CD pipelines, and Dev Ops practices
- Scripting experience (Python, Bash, Power Shell)
- Experience with cloud-native and serverless architectures (Lambda, API Gateway, microservices) and containerization (EKS, ECS, Fargate)
- Experience with hybrid/multi-cloud architecture, including Azure (VNets, Azure AD/Entra , SSO/MFA, Azure Policy, Site-to-Site VPN, Express Route, Direct Connect)
- Experience implementing SRE practices and disaster recovery plans
- Experience supporting ATO and continuous monitoring processes with government customers
- Certification: AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate or Professional
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
- Experience with Databricks implementation and support
- Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification
- Experience with Microsoft .NET and SQL Server
- Experience…
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