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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # AWS Solution Architect - **Company:** PERIGONSOFT LLC - **Location:** Columbia, MD, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Amazon Cloudfront, Backup Devices, Batch Processing, Cloud Engineering, Cyber Security, Software Design Documents, DevOps, Disaster Recovery, Fault Tolerance, Federated Identity Management, Identity and Access Management, Virtual Private Networks (VPN), Key Management, Machine Learning, Network Diagrams, Network Segmentation, Systems Development Life Cycle, Zero Trust Network Access, Software Engineering, AWS Cdk, Data Logging, Cloudformation, Event Driven Architecture, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Information Technology, AWS Data Analytics, Route53, Api Design, Cloud Optimization, Terraform, Dynatrace, Devsecops, Serverless Computing, Microservices - **Published:** June 26, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/94b4d072-0ed2-4aee-80d2-3142edbfbecc ## About the Role * Bachelor''s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field. * 12+ years of IT experience with 7+ years of hands-on AWS architecture and cloud engineering. * Experience leading enterprise cloud transformation and modernization projects. * Strong communication, stakeholder management, and technical leadership skills. Preferred Certifications (Any) * AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional (Required/Preferred) * AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional * AWS Certified Security - Specialty * AWS Certified Advanced Networking - Specialty * AWS Certified Machine Learning - Specialty * AWS Certified Data Engineer - Associate ## Description * Lead the architecture, design, and governance of enterprise-scale AWS cloud solutions supporting mission-critical Federal applications. * Define cloud strategy, reference architectures, technology roadmaps, and target-state architectures aligned with business and federal compliance requirements. * Design highly available, fault-tolerant, secure, and resilient multi-account, multi-region AWS environments using AWS Organizations, Control Tower, and Landing Zones. * Architect cloud-native solutions leveraging microservices, event-driven architectures, serverless computing, containers (EKS/ECS), and API-driven integrations. * Lead application modernization initiatives, including migration of legacy monolithic applications to cloud-native architectures using AWS best practices. * Design enterprise networking architectures including VPCs, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, VPN, PrivateLink, Route 53, CloudFront, and hybrid connectivity. * Define enterprise security architecture incorporating IAM, Zero Trust principles, encryption, key management, identity federation, secrets management, network segmentation, and security monitoring. * Develop scalable Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) frameworks using CloudFormation, AWS CDK, and Terraform to standardize cloud provisioning and governance. * Establish enterprise governance, cloud operating models, guardrails, tagging strategies, cost optimization, FinOps, and resource lifecycle management across multiple AWS accounts. * Design disaster recovery, backup, business continuity, and high availability solutions that meet Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO) requirements. * Architect enterprise data platforms utilizing AWS data, analytics, and streaming services to support real-time and batch processing workloads. * Evaluate emerging AWS services and recommend architecture patterns that improve scalability, security, operational efficiency, and cost effectiveness. * Lead architecture reviews, technical design sessions, and cloud readiness assessments while ensuring alignment with the AWS Well-Architected Framework. * Provide technical leadership and architectural governance across cross-functional teams including application development, infrastructure, cybersecurity, DevSecOps, networking, and operations. * Establish enterprise observability strategies using centralized logging, distributed tracing, monitoring, and operational dashboards. * Drive DevSecOps adoption by integrating security controls, compliance validation, infrastructure automation, and CI/CD pipelines throughout the software delivery lifecycle. * Produce high-level and low-level architecture documents, solution design documents, network diagrams, security models, and implementation roadmaps. * Serve as the primary technical advisor to client stakeholders, presenting architecture recommendations, trade-off analyses, risk assessments, and executive-level solution presentations. * Ensure all cloud architectures comply with Federal security and compliance standards including NIST 800-53, FedRAMP, FISMA, and Zero Trust Architecture principles. ## Related Videos - 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