Senior Cloud Architect

We are looking for a Senior Cloud Architect to join our team at Raft, a customer-obsessed non-traditional defense tech company. The successful candidate will design and evolve the cloud-native enterprise architecture for mission-critical systems and lead architecture decisions across AWS infrastructure.

Requirements

• AWS Solutions Architect certification (Associate or Professional) required
• 10+ years of hands-on experience designing enterprise-level, n-tier, service-oriented architectures composed of multiple COTS products
• Deep knowledge of AWS services including EC2, ECS/EKS, RDS, S3, IAM, VPC, CloudFormation/CDK, and AWS GovCloud
• Experience architecting solutions in classified or DoD IL4/IL5/IL6 cloud environments
• Must possess certifications IAW DoD Directive 8140.01 (Cyberspace Workforce Management) and DoD 8570.01-M (Information Assurance Workforce Improvement Program)
• Highly preferred: Experience with DoD personnel security systems or enterprise identity management platforms, Familiarity with Zero Trust Architecture principles and their application in DoD environments, Additional cloud certifications (AWS DevOps Engineer, AWS Security Specialty, or equivalent)

Benefits

• Highly competitive salary
• Fully covered healthcare, dental, and vision coverage
• 401(k) and company match
• Take as you need PTO + 11 paid holidays
• Education & training benefits
• Generous Referral Bonuses