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# Cloud Architect

- **Company:** Gridiron IT Solutions LLC
- **Location:** Springfield, VA, United States
- **Salary:** $200,000.0 - $220,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Cloud Computing, DevOps, Reliability Engineering
- **Published:** July 2, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.clearancejobs.com/jobs/9010105/cloud-architect

## About the Role

AWS Resilience Hub hands-on experience (resilience assessment and policy management)
AWS Certifications: Solutions Architect Professional, DevOps Engineer Professional
Experience in regulated industries (FedRAMP, IL4/IL5 environments)
Familiarity with NIST SP 800-160 (Systems Security Engineering) or DoD Mission Assurance frameworks
Experience with Service Control Policies (SCPs) and multi-account resilience governance
Experience with Orange and Purple Cloud PMO capabilities and Authorization Frameworks
Prior ProServe or consulting delivery experience with large enterprise customers
Hands-on experience with third-party resilience tooling (Gremlin, LitmusChaos)

Clearance:
Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information; TS/SCI CI Poly clearance is required.

## Description

Deliver resilient architecture designs (multi-AZ and/or multi-Region) tailored to customer workloads
Conduct Well-Architected Reviews focused on the Reliability Pillar
Implement and validate resilience through chaos engineering and game days
Establish operational runbooks, monitoring, and DR procedures

Basic Requirements:

Conducting Well-Architected Reviews with a Reliability Pillar focus
Workshop facilitation: resilience assessments, architecture reviews, and game days
Stakeholder communication - translating technical resilience concepts to business value
Documentation: architecture decision records (ADRs), resilience runbooks, SOPs
Customer relationship management and executive-level reporting
Cross-functional collaboration with customer engineering, security, and operations teams
Mentoring customer teams on resilience best practices and operational maturity


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