AWS Solutions Architect – Resilience
aqua IT•Springfield OR Herndon, VA
About The Position
Lead the design and implementation of resilient AWS cloud architectures, helping enterprise customers improve reliability, disaster recovery, and operational resilience for mission-critical workloads.
Requirements
- Active TS/SCI (CI Poly preferred but not required)
- 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
Nice To Haves
- 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)
Responsibilities
- 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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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