Solution Architect

Booz Allen Hamilton • Hanscom AFB, MA

4d • $112,900 - $257,000

About The Position

As an experienced cloud computing infrastructure architect, you know how to take advantage of cloud capabilities. Here, you’ll oversee our team of experienced professionals and use cutting-edge enterprise cloud platforms to guide your clients as they modernize their IT infrastructure and meet their most challenging missions. We’re looking for someone like you to help enhancing the environment for our warfighters. You’ll collaborate closely with fellow cloud architects and engineers specializing in Office 365, Azure, AWS, GCP to design, define, develop, test, and debug cloud solution components. You’ll have the chance to broaden your experience within a DevOps framework to create and manage container apps and use products like Kubernetes to further the mission. With access to our internal Azure, AWS, and GCP labs, you’ll have the space and time to explore different ways of solving our clients’ problems, and you’ll partner with stakeholders and lead your team to deliver the right technical solutions. Whether modernizing legacy computing platforms and applications or creating new ones from scratch, you’ll have the latest tech and brightest teammates at your fingertips. Grow your skills at the leading edge of innovation. Join us. The world can’t wait.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience designing and owning implementation of cloud infrastructure in enterprise or mission environments, including networking, identity, compute, and storage
• Experience with enterprise virtualization, distributed infrastructure, and data platform architecture, including environments operating under degraded connectivity, air-gap, or multi-tenant constraints
• Experience with large-scale log management, security monitoring, or SIEM platform architecture, including designing from scratch, consolidating existing tooling, or migrating between platforms
• Experience with DevOps practices and automation, including containerization, orchestration, and CI/CD pipeline design, including in restricted or classified environments where standard toolchains don't apply out of the box
• Experience integrating AI/ML capabilities into engineering workflows or production environments, including surfacing LLM-backed tooling to extend what a small team can deliver
• Experience making sound architectural decisions when the environment works against you, including restricted toolchains, contested network conditions, imposed timelines, or requirements that shift mid-execution
• Ability to enter an unfamiliar technology, develop genuine working knowledge rapidly, and lead others through implementation
• Ability to architect under ambiguity, own the outcome alongside engineers, and communicate decisions clearly to both technical teams and senior non-technical stakeholders
• Secret clearance
• Bachelor's degree

Nice To Haves

• Experience working across multiple cloud providers or classification levels on the same program, including navigating the translation between platforms
• Experience on a large defense program or with a major systems integrator, including delivering under bureaucratic friction without losing technical momentum
• Experience supporting DoD installations or integrating with mission or C2 systems across NIPR, SIPR, or coalition networks, including where the technical environment was inherited, undocumented, or both
• Experience building agentic workflows, automation pipelines, or custom tooling that meaningfully changed what your team could ship
• Experience in a technical lead or principal role where you were accountable for both the architecture and whether it actually got delivered
• Experience operating on a tiger team, rapid response unit, or equivalent, parachuting into a problem, delivering under compressed timelines, and moving on cleanly
• Top Secret clearance
• AWS Certification

Responsibilities

• Oversee a team of experienced professionals using cutting-edge enterprise cloud platforms.
• Guide clients in modernizing their IT infrastructure.
• Collaborate with cloud architects and engineers specializing in Office 365, Azure, AWS, GCP to design, define, develop, test, and debug cloud solution components.
• Create and manage container apps within a DevOps framework.
• Use products like Kubernetes to further the mission.
• Explore different ways of solving client problems using internal Azure, AWS, and GCP labs.
• Partner with stakeholders and lead teams to deliver technical solutions.
• Modernize legacy computing platforms and applications or create new ones from scratch.

Benefits

• health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits
• paid leave
• professional development
• tuition assistance
• work-life programs
• dependent care
• recognition awards program

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior