Technical Lead, AWS

September 26, 2026

Job Description:

Support delivery across AWS programs, including staffing, schedules, risk, quality, and customer satisfaction
Define the AWS practice operating model, including reference architectures, delivery playbooks, and reusable Terraform-based accelerators
Report practice health, staffing needs, and risks
Act as the firm's senior technical authority on AWS across compute, networking, storage, data, security, identity, observability, serverless, and container platforms
Set and enforce Terraform-first Infrastructure as Code standards with reusable module libraries, policy-as-code guardrails, and automated drift detection
Own CI/CD and GitOps models, including pipeline architecture, artifact signing, security gates, and automated STIG/CIS hardening
Drive compliance as code by mapping NIST SP 800-53 controls to automated evidence and integrating Security Hub, GuardDuty, Inspector, and CloudTrail into continuous monitoring
Design and review AWS GovCloud and commercial-region architectures under FISMA, FedRAMP, and Zero Trust requirements
Eliminate operational toil through self-healing infrastructure, automated patching, runbook automation, and pipeline-based cost optimization
Stay hands-on with Terraform plans and technical troubleshooting
Lead adoption of AI across delivery, including agentic operations triage, IaC generation and review, control-implementation drafting, and documentation
Architect and deliver regulated AWS AI workloads using Bedrock, SageMaker, and related services
Establish standards for responsible and secure use of AI coding assistants and agents
Mentor and retain AWS architects, cloud engineers, and DevSecOps engineers
Build certification and skills-development programs and advise on career paths and technical review practices
Own the technical relationship with the AWS Partner Network and collaborate with AWS partner managers, solutions architects, and public sector account teams
Drive requirements for AWS competencies, service delivery designations, Well-Architected Partner status, case studies, validations, and certification counts
Manage partner program mechanics, including MAP, POC funding, credits, and co-sell registrations
Serve as solution architect on AWS pursuits, covering architecture, staffing, transition approach, and basis of estimate
Write and review technical approach volumes, respond to RFIs, and present in orals
Partner with capture and BD leads to shape requirements, engage customers early, and position AWS-native approaches

Requirements:

10+ years in cloud engineering or architecture, with 6+ years focused on AWS in DevSecOps or platform engineering roles
Expert-level Terraform: module design, state management at scale, testing, and policy-as-code enforcement
CloudFormation or CDK fluency preferred
Hands-on experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines for federal systems, including GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or AWS CodePipeline, with integrated security scanning
Deep AWS security expertise: IAM design, Organizations and SCPs, KMS, network segmentation, Security Hub, GuardDuty, and logging architecture
Demonstrated compliance-as-code work: automating NIST SP 800-53 evidence, STIG or CIS hardening, and continuous monitoring supporting FISMA or FedRAMP authorizations
Practical experience delivering AI or ML capabilities on AWS, or applying AI tooling to engineering and operations work, in a regulated environment
3+ years leading and mentoring cloud engineering teams
Deep, current, hands-on AWS expertise across core services, including AWS GovCloud (US)
Active AWS Professional-level certification required: AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional and/or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional; both preferred
Active AI certification required: AWS Certified AI Practitioner or AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer - Associate, and/or an Anthropic Claude certification
AWS Certified Security - Specialty and HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate strongly preferred
Experience contributing to federal proposals as a technical solution architect or technical volume author
Experience working directly with AWS partner and account teams
U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance
Delivery experience at federal civilian agencies where AWS is the platform of record
Track record advancing an AWS Partner Network tier or earning competencies and service delivery designations
Multi-cloud fluency, particularly Azure Government
Experience with agentic AI frameworks and MCP-based tooling for engineering and operations
Kubernetes (EKS) and container security experience

Benefits:

Equal opportunity employer
Remote work arrangement for the United States

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