Solution Architect - AWS- TS ; ONSITE - Information Technology Huntsville, AL

Visual Soft, Inc is seeking qualified candidates to work on our efforts with a Prime for their end customer, a federal agency in Huntsville, AL

Job Title
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Solution Architect - AWS – Top Secret Clearance
Location
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Huntsville, Alabama (100% Onsite)
Clearance Required
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Active Top Secret Clearance (U.S. Citizenship Required)
Employment Type
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Full-Time / Permanent/1099 Consultant
Education
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Bachelor’s Degree (B.S.) in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field
Experience
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BS degree with 12+ years of hands-on data engineering experience
Job Description
We are seeking an experienced AWS Solutions Architect to lead the architecture, engineering, and modernization of mission-critical cloud infrastructure supporting a high-impact federal defense/intelligence customer in Huntsville, AL.
Working in direct partnership with our prime contractor and federal agency stakeholders, you will be the primary technical authority responsible for translating mission requirements into secure, highly available, and cost-optimized cloud solutions. This role requires deep, hands-on architectural expertise within classified, multi-region AWS environments (Gov Cloud, Secret Commercial Cloud Services, or Top Secret / C2S regions).
Key Responsibilities
Enterprise Cloud Architecture
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Design, document, and oversee end-to-end cloud architectures for classified defense workloads, ensuring alignment with the AWS Well-Architected Framework and DoD Enterprise Cloud Environment guidance.
Mission Modernization
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Partner with prime contractor technical leads and customer engineering teams to migrate legacy on-premises applications and bare-metal systems to containerized, microservices, and serverless AWS architectures.
Security & Compliance
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Author and implement System Security Plans (SSPs) and architecture designs compliant with DoD Impact Level 5/6 (IL5/IL6), NIST SP 800-53, and FedRAMP High. Drive the technical controls required to achieve and maintain Authorizations to Operate (ATO).
Infrastructure as Code (IaC):
Champion automated deployment pipelines and baseline configurations using Terraform, AWS Cloud Formation, and CI/CD pipelines (Git Lab CI/Jenkins) across air-gapped and disconnected environments.
Technical Leadership & Governance
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Establish cloud governance models, tagging taxonomies, cross-account networking (Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, VPC peering), and cost optimization strategies.
Stakeholder Engagement
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Serve as the technical advisor in customer review boards, Technical Interchange Meetings (TIMs), and engineering change reviews with both Prime and government agency leadership.

Required Qualifications
Clearance
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Active U.S. Government Top Secret (TS) clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain SCI eligibility.
Work Location
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Willingness and ability to work 100%
onsite in Huntsville, AL (access to secure SCIF facilities).
Education
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Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, Systems Engineering, or a related STEM field.
Experience
: 12+ years of progressive professional experience across IT infrastructure, systems engineering, software delivery, and enterprise architecture.
Cloud Expertise
: 5+ years of dedicated experience architecting, migrating, and supporting production workloads in AWS (Gov Cloud, SC2S, or C2S environments preferred).

Core Technical Competencies
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• Advanced networking design (VPCs, Transit Gateways, Direct Connect, Private Link, Route 53).
• Container orchestration and management (Amazon EKS, ECS, Docker, Kubernetes).
• Storage and database architecture (RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, S3 lifecycle policies).
• Identity, access, and boundary protection (IAM policies, SCPs, KMS,…