AWS Cloud Architect

Job summary

UNCOMN is seeking an AWS Cloud Architect (Cloud Engineer 4) to design AWS GovCloud infrastructure patterns, define cloud service selection, and support architecture decisions for various cloud components. This role involves collaborating with different teams to ensure practical and supportable designs and evaluating tradeoffs between various hosting approaches.

Benefits

Qualifications

• 8+ years of related experience.
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, Computer Science, CMIS, or a related field, or 4 additional years of related experience.
• Hands-on AWS architecture experience spanning core infrastructure, networking, security, and managed services.
• Experience designing scalable and resilient cloud environments for business-critical applications.
• Ability to translate technical and operational requirements into actionable architecture patterns and decisions.
• Experience working with engineering teams to implement cloud standards through automation and repeatable patterns.
• Strong communication skills to explain architecture decisions, risks, and tradeoffs.
• Eligible to obtain a Secret clearance or similar, granted by the U.S. Government, requiring U.S. citizenship.
• Willingness to obtain relevant certifications as required by future client or contract needs.

Responsibilities

• Design AWS GovCloud infrastructure patterns that support resilience, scalability, observability, and cost control.
• Define cloud service selection, network patterns, environment strategy, and platform guardrails for delivery teams.
• Support architecture decisions for IAM, encryption, logging, monitoring, backup, and disaster recovery.
• Create and maintain architecture views, technical recommendations, and implementation guidance for engineering teams.
• Collaborate with application, platform, security, and DevSecOps team members to ensure designs are practical and supportable.
• Evaluate tradeoffs between managed services, container platforms, serverless patterns, and traditional hosting approaches.

Skills

Certifications

Degrees

Security clearance

Relocation