Technical Lead, AWS

Job Description:

  • Support delivery across AWS programs, including staffing, schedules, risk, quality, and customer satisfaction
  • Define the AWS practice operating model, including reference architectures, delivery playbooks, and reusable Terraform-based accelerators
  • Report practice health, staffing needs, and risks
  • Act as the firm's senior technical authority on AWS across compute, networking, storage, data, security, identity, observability, serverless, and container platforms
  • Set and enforce Terraform-first Infrastructure as Code standards with reusable module libraries, policy-as-code guardrails, and automated drift detection
  • Own CI/CD and GitOps models, including pipeline architecture, artifact signing, security gates, and automated STIG/CIS hardening
  • Drive compliance as code by mapping NIST SP 800-53 controls to automated evidence and integrating Security Hub, GuardDuty, Inspector, and CloudTrail into continuous monitoring
  • Design and review AWS GovCloud and commercial-region architectures under FISMA, FedRAMP, and Zero Trust requirements
  • Eliminate operational toil through self-healing infrastructure, automated patching, runbook automation, and pipeline-based cost optimization
  • Stay hands-on with Terraform plans and technical troubleshooting
  • Lead adoption of AI across delivery, including agentic operations triage, IaC generation and review, control-implementation drafting, and documentation
  • Architect and deliver regulated AWS AI workloads using Bedrock, SageMaker, and related services
  • Establish standards for responsible and secure use of AI coding assistants and agents
  • Mentor and retain AWS architects, cloud engineers, and DevSecOps engineers
  • Build certification and skills-development programs and advise on career paths and technical review practices
  • Own the technical relationship with the AWS Partner Network and collaborate with AWS partner managers, solutions architects, and public sector account teams
  • Drive requirements for AWS competencies, service delivery designations, Well-Architected Partner status, case studies, validations, and certification counts
  • Manage partner program mechanics, including MAP, POC funding, credits, and co-sell registrations
  • Serve as solution architect on AWS pursuits, covering architecture, staffing, transition approach, and basis of estimate
  • Write and review technical approach volumes, respond to RFIs, and present in orals
  • Partner with capture and BD leads to shape requirements, engage customers early, and position AWS-native approaches

Requirements:

  • 10+ years in cloud engineering or architecture, with 6+ years focused on AWS in DevSecOps or platform engineering roles
  • Expert-level Terraform: module design, state management at scale, testing, and policy-as-code enforcement
  • CloudFormation or CDK fluency preferred
  • Hands-on experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines for federal systems, including GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or AWS CodePipeline, with integrated security scanning
  • Deep AWS security expertise: IAM design, Organizations and SCPs, KMS, network segmentation, Security Hub, GuardDuty, and logging architecture
  • Demonstrated compliance-as-code work: automating NIST SP 800-53 evidence, STIG or CIS hardening, and continuous monitoring supporting FISMA or FedRAMP authorizations
  • Practical experience delivering AI or ML capabilities on AWS, or applying AI tooling to engineering and operations work, in a regulated environment
  • 3+ years leading and mentoring cloud engineering teams
  • Deep, current, hands-on AWS expertise across core services, including AWS GovCloud (US)
  • Active AWS Professional-level certification required: AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional and/or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional; both preferred
  • Active AI certification required: AWS Certified AI Practitioner or AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer - Associate, and/or an Anthropic Claude certification
  • AWS Certified Security - Specialty and HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate strongly preferred
  • Experience contributing to federal proposals as a technical solution architect or technical volume author
  • Experience working directly with AWS partner and account teams
  • U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance
  • Delivery experience at federal civilian agencies where AWS is the platform of record
  • Track record advancing an AWS Partner Network tier or earning competencies and service delivery designations
  • Multi-cloud fluency, particularly Azure Government
  • Experience with agentic AI frameworks and MCP-based tooling for engineering and operations
  • Kubernetes (EKS) and container security experience

Benefits:

  • Equal opportunity employer
  • Remote work arrangement for the United States
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