AWS Platform Architect

Analytica•Bethesda, MD

About The Position

Analytica is seeking a hands-on Lead Platform Solutions Architect to lead the design, implementation, and continued improvement of a large-scale, enterprise AWS-based platform supporting mission-critical, public-facing services for a homeland security client. The role leads platform engineering, including infrastructure as code, monitoring, automated testing, and the CI/CD backbone for securely and scalably delivering identity, scheduling, and biometrics applications in alignment with federal security and compliance frameworks. The architect will lead DevSecOps initiatives and design scalable, secure, and resilient platforms that meet USCIS performance and availability targets. The role includes integrating security and code-quality tools, guiding monitoring and incident response, supporting disaster recovery and government authorization processes, and enabling serverless and containerized microservices. The architect collaborates with application and data architecture leads and ISSO personnel, and researches and documents proposed platform innovations for government approval.

Requirements

At least 10 years of experience leading DevSecOps initiatives, including architecture, automation, monitoring, testing, and CI/CD pipelines for large-scale, multi-cloud, and on-premises platforms.
Proven ability to design scalable, secure, and resilient platforms.
Knowledge of federal security and compliance standards, such as FISMA and FedRAMP.
AWS Certified Solutions Architect — Associate or Professional certification.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
Ability to obtain and maintain DHS Public Trust (EOD).

Nice To Haves

Experience with the USCIS AWS service footprint: EC2, S3, Aurora, RDS, OpenSearch, CloudFormation, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, Lambda, Kinesis, EKS, and KMS.
Hands-on experience with Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, Harness, and Backstage.
Experience with the DHS Enterprise Architecture Technical Reference Model (TRM) and IPv6 (USGv6) compliance.
Prior USCIS, DHS, or large federal civilian cloud platform experience.

Responsibilities

Lead DevSecOps initiatives, including architecture, automation, monitoring, testing, and CI/CD pipelines for large-scale, multi-cloud, and on-premises platforms.
Design scalable, secure, and resilient platforms that meet USCIS performance and availability targets, including 99.9% uptime and 24/7 platform availability.
Architect infrastructure-as-code solutions using Terraform and AWS-native capabilities to create consistent and secure environments.
Integrate security and code-quality scanning tools into CI/CD pipelines and enforce secure configurations for cloud resources.
Apply federal security and compliance standards, including FISMA, FedRAMP, DHS Enterprise Architecture (HLS EA), and NIST frameworks.
Guide platform monitoring, observability, incident response, and disaster recovery, supporting 24x7 and 15-minute incident response and MTTR of 90 minutes or less for internal code faults.
Support Team Managed Deployment (TMD) and Ongoing Authorization (OA) processes.
Enable serverless and containerized microservices patterns and support SPA/MPA DevSecOps practices.
Partner with Application DevSecOps Solutions Architect Leads, Data Architect/Scientist Leads, and ISSO personnel to align cross-cutting platform decisions with program needs.
Research and adopt platform tools, processes, and practices; document and justify innovations for government approval before implementation.