AWS Solutions Architect

Washington, United States | Posted on 10/13/2026

The AWS Solutions Architect – Security & Dev Ops is responsible for designing, implementing, securing, and optimizing enterprise cloud solutions that support the mission and operational objectives. This role combines advanced AWS architecture expertise with cloud security engineering, Dev Sec Ops  automation, infrastructure as code, and continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) practices.

The architect will develop secure, scalable, resilient, and cost-effective cloud environments that support programs, healthcare information systems, public health initiatives, and mission-critical applications. The position requires a strong understanding of federal information security requirements, including the Federal Information Security Modernization Act (FISMA), Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) frameworks, and applicable security policies.

The ideal candidate possesses AWS Solutions Architect certification, AWS security and Dev Ops certifications, and demonstrated experience implementing cloud architectures that integrate security, compliance, automation, and operational excellence throughout the software development lifecycle.

• Design and implement secure, highly available, fault-tolerant, and scalable AWS cloud architectures supporting enterprise applications and workloads.
• Develop cloud infrastructure solutions using services such as Amazon EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, Lambda, RDS, EKS, Cloud Front, Route 53, and AWS Organizations.
• Establish cloud landing zones, account structures, network segmentation, connectivity, and multi-account governance strategies.
• Design disaster recovery, business continuity, backup, and resilience solutions aligned with mission and recovery requirements.
• Evaluate cloud architecture designs for performance, reliability, security, maintainability, and cost optimization.
• Provide technical leadership and architectural guidance to cloud engineers, Dev Ops teams, security personnel, developers, and program stakeholders.

• Design and implement security controls aligned with NIST SP 800-53, NIST Cybersecurity Framework, FISMA, FedRAMP, and applicable policies.
• Apply AWS security best practices, including least-privilege access, identity federation, role-based access control, encryption, network isolation, and centralized logging.
• Implement and manage AWS IAM, AWS KMS, AWS Secrets Manager, AWS Cloud Trail, AWS Config, Amazon Guard Duty, AWS Security Hub, and Amazon Inspector.
• Integrate security controls and automated compliance checks into cloud infrastructure provisioning and application deployment pipelines.
• Support security assessments, risk assessments, vulnerability management, remediation tracking, and Authority to Operate (ATO) activities.
• Collaborate with Information System Security Officers (ISSOs), Information System Security Managers (ISSMs), security operations teams, and compliance stakeholders to maintain security documentation and evidence.
• Implement continuous monitoring, security alerting, incident response procedures, and audit-ready logging.
• Support protection of sensitive government and healthcare information, including personally identifiable information (PII) and protected health information (PHI), where applicable.

• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines that automate application builds, testing, security scanning, deployments, and releases.
• Use AWS Code Pipeline, Code Build, Code Deploy, Git Hub Actions, Git Lab CI/CD, Jenkins,…