Sr. AWS Architect

Location:
Dallas, TX — 5 days onsite (no exceptions) (Local only)

Job Type: W2

Visa's Accepted: USC, GC, GC EAD, H4 EAD, TN only

Required Experience

• 15+ years overall; 10+ years deep AWS architecture in regulated (bank/DoD/health) environments.
• Built multi‑account platforms with Control Tower/Organizations, SCPs, IAM SSO, and centralized logging & security.
• Hands‑on CDK (not just Terraform): authored reusable constructs adopted by multiple teams, with CDK Pipelines.
• Demonstrated audit readiness: control mapping, Config rules, exceptions workflow, evidence packs.

Required Certifications (must be current or recently lapsed)

• AWS Solutions Architect – Professional (required)
• AWS Security – Specialty (required)
• AWS Dev Ops Engineer – Professional (strongly preferred)
• AWS Advanced Networking – Specialty (preferred for DX/VPC design)

Core Technical Skills (must‑have depth)

• AWS CDK (Type Script/Python), CDK Pipelines, Cloud Formation;
  Terraform literacy welcome but CDK is primary.
• Security: IAM/SCPs/permission boundaries, KMS (envelope encryption), Secrets Manager, S3 bucket & endpoint policies, private subnets, WAF/Shield, detective controls.
• Observability & Ops:
  Cloud Watch, metrics/logging, runbooks, chaos/failover testing, MTTR/MTTD improvements.