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AWS Cloud Architect

Marathon TS

Role overview

Qualifications

  • U.S. citizenship required; ability to obtain and maintain a Top-Secret security clearance
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
  • 10+ years of progressive experience in cloud infrastructure/architecture roles on AWS
  • Certification: AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate or Professional

Responsibilities

  • Design and document scalable, resilient, and secure cloud architectures on AWS
  • Develop and implement reference architectures and design patterns aligned to FedRAMP Moderate control baselines
  • Lead cloud migration and modernization strategy
  • Evaluate and recommend cloud-native and hybrid solutions

Key facts

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Organizational Skills
  • Mentorship

About the company

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Marathon TS

IT Services & IT Consulting

Marathon TS provides winning IT solutions for government and industry as a WBENC Certified Woman-Owned Small Business. We were founded in 2009 by IT professionals with a proven record of success in building IT services companies. Marathon TS provides digital solutions in cloud, mobile, big data, IoT, cybersecurity, and advanced analytics through user-centric designs driven by Agile (SAFe) methodologies and DevSecOps best practices. We also provide scalable support through our network of experts who specialist in specific technical or subject matter disciplines. As a Prime Contractor, we have successfully provided services to the U.S. Federal Government, including the Intelligence Community, the Department of State, the Department of Energy, the Defense Health Agency, and the Department of Veterans Affairs, as well as the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy. Private sector clients include IBM, Lockheed Martin, Booz Allen Hamilton, BAE Systems, Leidos, and more. Marathon’s success depends on building and maintaining strong relationships with our clients that are based on mutual trust, responsiveness, accountability, and customer satisfaction. Our goal is to understand our clients business as well as we understand our own. It is our responsibility to know our clients industry and the business challenges they face.

Company details

Company typeSME
IndustryIT Services & IT Consulting
Company size51 - 200

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Job description

AWS Cloud Architect

Program Overview

Marathon is seeking an AWS Cloud Architect to design, lead, and govern enterprise cloud architecture supporting mission-critical federal programs. This role defines the target-state cloud architecture across AWS (primary) and Azure (secondary), ensuring solutions meet FedRAMP Moderate security and compliance requirements. The Cloud Architect serves as the technical subject matter expert (SME) for cloud design decisions, partnering closely with Cloud Computing, Application Development, Data Science, Infrastructure, and Cybersecurity Engineering teams and stakeholders.
Responsibilities
• Systems Design: Design and document scalable, resilient, and secure cloud architectures (blueprints, diagrams, and strategies) on AWS, with secondary integration and support for Azure workloads.
• Compliant Architecture: Develop and implement reference architectures and design patterns aligned to FedRAMP Moderate control baselines (NIST 800-53 and NIST 800-171).
• Migration & Modernization: Lead cloud migration and modernization strategy, including workload assessment, right-sizing, and cost optimization.
• Cost & Performance Optimization: Evaluate and recommend cloud-native and hybrid solutions that balance performance, cost, and compliance.
• ATO & System Security Plans: Lead technical gap analysis, partner with the cloud security team, execute automated control mapping, and support development and maintenance of System Security Plans (SSPs), architecture diagrams, and other ATO documentation.
• Automation (IaC): Develop and implement reusable Infrastructure as Code templates using Terraform or AWS CloudFormation to ensure continuous compliance and rapid deployment.
• DevSecOps Integration: Configure secure CI/CD pipelines, monitoring solutions, and containerization using tools such as Azure DevOps and AWS-native services (CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy) and other security tooling.
• Identity & Data Protection: Architect secure identity access boundaries, multi-factor authentication, single sign-on (SSO), network firewalls, and encryption schemas for data at rest and in transit.
• SRE & Disaster Recovery: Build site reliability engineering (SRE) practices and disaster recovery solutions.
• Technical Mentorship: Provide technical leadership and mentorship to cloud engineers.

Qualifications
Required
• U.S. citizenship required; ability to obtain and maintain a Top-Secret security clearance- process will be started during contract employment.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• 10+ years of progressive experience in cloud infrastructure/architecture roles on AWS.
• Deep hands-on expertise designing AWS solutions, including VPC, IAM, EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, networking/Transit Gateway, KMS, Organizations, Control Tower, PrivateLink, Direct Connect, and Site-to-Site VPN.
• Strong grasp of networking, databases, storage, and container tooling on AWS.
• 5+ years of experience with AWS cloud-native security services such as GuardDuty, Security Hub, and Inspector.
• Demonstrated experience architecting within FedRAMP Moderate (or FedRAMP High/DoD or similar compliance) environments, with familiarity in NIST 800-53 and NIST 800-171 control families.
• 5+ years of experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar), CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps practices.
• 5+ years of scripting experience (Python, Bash, PowerShell).
• Experience with cloud-native and serverless architectures (Lambda, API Gateway, microservices) and containerization (EKS, ECS, Fargate).
• Experience with hybrid/multi-cloud architecture, including Azure (VNets, Azure AD/Entra ID, SSO/MFA, Azure Policy, Site-to-Site VPN, ExpressRoute, Direct Connect).
• Experience implementing SRE practices and disaster recovery plans.
• Experience supporting ATO and continuous monitoring processes with government customers.
• Certification: AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate or Professional.

Preferred
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional.
• Experience with Databricks implementation and support.
• Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification.
• Experience with Microsoft .NET and SQL Server.
• Experience with Azure.
• Experience with DevSecOps.
• Strong collaboration skills across technical and non-technical teams.
• Experience with AI/ML platforms deployed in regulated environments.
• Active security clearance.
• Familiarity with AI security and governance frameworks, national security/defense/critical infrastructure missions, and supporting federal agencies or large GovCon programs.

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