- Lead the hands-on design, build, and delivery of secure, scalable, and resilient cloud solutions across AWS and related cloud-native platforms.
- Develop production-ready reference architectures, infrastructure-as-code modules, automation patterns, CI/CD pipelines, and reusable engineering assets that accelerate delivery and improve quality.
- Translate customer mission needs, technical requirements, and operational constraints into working cloud architectures and implementable engineering plans.
- Serve as the senior technical owner for complex cloud migration, modernization, and optimization initiatives, actively contributing to architecture, implementation, troubleshooting, and release readiness.
- Guide engineering teams through the development of cloud-native applications, containerized workloads, serverless solutions, platform services, and DevSecOps practices.
- Design and implement automation for provisioning, configuration, deployment, monitoring, security controls, and operational recovery.
- Evaluate and make architectural decisions on cloud services, application patterns, data flows, integration approaches, security models, and operational tradeoffs.
- Partner directly with developers, architects, security engineers, program leaders, and customer stakeholders to resolve technical blockers and keep delivery moving.
- Perform hands‑on technical reviews of designs, code, pipelines, infrastructure definitions, deployment patterns, and operational runbooks to ensure engineering excellence.
- Drive improvements in reliability, scalability, performance, cost optimization, observability, and security posture across cloud environments.
- Mentor senior engineers and technical leads through complex design and implementation challenges while raising the organization’s cloud engineering standards.
- Support solution shaping, technical capture, and growth activities by contributing practical architecture, implementation strategies, estimates, and delivery approaches.
Requirements
- Active Top-Secret Security Clearance with SCI eligibility
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related field.
- Minimum of 10 years of experience managing complex technical projects, programs, or enterprise technology initiatives.
- Minimum of 3 years of experience leading AWS cloud migration and optimization efforts.
- Active AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional certification, or ability to obtain within 6 months of hire.
- Demonstrated experience leading multiple simultaneous software development programs, technology modernization efforts, or enterprise initiatives.
- Preferred experience with developing solutions using Python or similar programming languages
- Experience deploying and managing container-based applications using Kubernetes and serverless technologies
- Experience with software development tools, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), automation, and CI/CD processes and pipelines
- Proven ability to balance technical leadership with sound business judgment to drive customer-focused decisions.
- Exceptional communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience engaging with senior executives, customer leadership, and technical teams.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making capabilities.
Core Competencies
Demonstrates expertise in designing and implementing secure, scalable cloud solutions on AWS, with a strong focus on automation, CI/CD processes, and cloud-native application development. Proven ability to lead complex technical projects and mentor engineering teams while ensuring high standards of quality and security.
Highest-signal resume keywords
- AWS Cloud Migration
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
- Container-Based Application Deployment
- Technical Project Management
ATS Optimization Keywords
Hard Skills
- Cloud Architecture
- Automation Patterns
- CI/CD Pipelines
- Python Programming
- Kubernetes
- Serverless Technologies
- Technical Reviews
- Security Controls
- Operational Recovery
- Data Flows
Soft Skills
- Exceptional Communication
- Stakeholder Management
- Analytical Problem-Solving
- Decision-Making
- Mentoring
Certifications & Qualifications
- Top-Secret Security Clearance
- Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
Industry Keywords
- Cloud Solutions
- Technical Leadership
- Enterprise Technology Initiatives
- Software Development Programs
- Technology Modernization
Tools & Technologies
- AWS
- Cloud-Native Platforms
- DevSecOps Practices
- Monitoring Tools
- Deployment Patterns