AWS Cloud Architect

Job Title

AWS Cloud Architect

Norfolk, VA

Long term contract

Spar Information Systems

Design, implement, and govern target state AWS cloud, hybrid, and AI enabled architectures for enterprise and Digital Experience (DX) applications. This role provides end‑to‑end architectural leadership across cloud infrastructure, DX platforms, and AI/ML capabilities, ensuring secure, scalable, resilient, and cost‑effective solutions aligned with business outcomes.

• Design and maintain target state AWS cloud, hybrid, and AI enabled architectures for enterprise and Digital Experience (DX) applications.
• Define end‑to‑end Digital Experience (DX) solution architectures, including web, mobile, API, integration, and AI/ML augmentation layers.
• Ensure architectures meet scalability, performance, resiliency, availability, and user experience requirements.
• Design AWS VPC architectures, including subnet segmentation, IP addressing, routing, firewall rules, and private connectivity.
• Support secure hybrid connectivity, DX platform integrations, and AI/ML workloads.
• Develop and standardize Infrastructure as Code (IaC) patterns and CI/CD deployment pipelines.
• Produce required architecture and onboarding artifacts, including Cloud Center of Excellence intake, Information Security intake, Data governance alignment, Dev Ops and MLOps readiness, Operational readiness documentation.
• Embed security by design across AWS, DX, and AI/ML solutions, including IAM role and policy design, authentication and authorization models, least privilege access, secure API design, data protection, model access controls, and sensitive data handling.
• Assess applications and workloads to identify AI/ML enablement opportunities.
• Recommend and define migration and modernization strategies, including lift‑and‑shift, rehost, refactor, and AI‑assisted enhancements.
• Provide hands‑on architectural oversight for end‑to‑end cloud, DX, and AI/ML initiatives.
• Define and document run state and operational requirements, including availability, monitoring, logging, observability, model performance monitoring, incident response, and cost optimization.
• Collaborate with AWS platform, data, AI/ML, deployment, and DX delivery teams to define responsibilities, prerequisites, MLOps handoffs, and operational ownership models.
• Create and maintain technical deliverables such as architecture and reference diagrams, network and data flow diagrams, AI/ML reference architectures, build guides, runbooks, configuration baselines, and implementation standards.

• AWS Cloud Architecture (VPC, EC2, EKS/ECS, S3, IAM, RDS, networking, security)
• Hybrid Cloud & Network Design (VPC segmentation, routing, firewall, private connectivity)
• Digital Experience (DX) Architecture (Web, Mobile, API, Integration platforms)
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Cloud Formation) & CI/CD pipelines
• AI/ML Architecture on AWS (model deployment, inference endpoints, data ingestion)
• Dev Ops & MLOps (automation, environment patterns, model lifecycle management)
• Security & Compliance (IAM, least privilege, secure APIs, data protection)
• Observability & Operations (monitoring, logging, availability, incident response, model drift)

• Enterprise Digital Platforms
• Cloud Transformation & Modernization
• AI enabled Customer Experience / Intelligent Automation

Must Have: AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate or Professional (Mandatory)

Preferred: AWS Certified Security or Machine Learning Specialty

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