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As a Secure Cloud Architect, you bring together deep cloud architecture expertise with rigorous security engineering to design and govern end-to-end AWS environments for mission-critical Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)and data integration systems. You will define the technical strategy across development, staging, and production environments while ensuring that architectural decisions meet security, compliance, and operational readiness standards.\nWe're looking for an architect who can set the direction for the entire cloud ecosystem, designing VPC and subnet topology, selecting the OpenSearch deployment model, shaping Amazon Bedrock integration patterns, and establishing standards for availability, scalability, and cost control. You will also own the security control framework for implementation, including IAM least-privilege boundaries, KMS key policies, secrets lifecycle management, and data access controls for Bedrock, OpenSearch, and application services.\nOn our team, you will drive architecture decision records, resolve cross-team technical tradeoffs, and ensure cloud and security patterns align with mission outcomes. You will partner closely with security engineers, application engineers, data teams, and reliability engineers to ensure the system remains secure, high-performing, and ready for deployment across phases of the implementation plan.\nThis is an opportunity to use the latest cloud technologies as you look for ways to secure your customer’s environment. 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The world can’t wait.\nYou Have:\nExperience designing and governing end-to-end AWS architectures, including VPC topology, subnet design, routing, and secure connectivity patterns, and defining cloud strategies for multi-environment deployments, including development, staging, and production\nExperience designing identity and access protections, including IAM least privilege architectures, role segmentation, and policygovernance\nExperience designing KMS key strategies, encryption standards, and secrets lifecycle management practices\nExperience assessing cloud service integrations for security risks, including Amazon Bedrock, OpenSearch, Lambda, ECS or EKS, and cloud data storage services\nExperience producing architecture decision records and guiding teams through cloud architecture tradeoff decisions\nExperience interpreting and applying security controls, compliance requirements, and accreditation-aligned architectural patterns\nExperience integrating logging, monitoring, and security event capture into cloud architectures\nAbility to communicate complex architectural decisions and collaborate with application, security, data, and DevOps teams\nTS/SCI clearance\nHS diploma or GED\nNice If You Have:\nExperience designing or securing OpenSearch clusters, including index lifecycle planning, shard configuration, encryption, and access controls\nExperience implementing Amazon Bedrock model strategies, including secure model invocation, model orchestration, and cross-service IAM permissions\nExperience with hybridor air-gapped cloud architectures and secure enclave designs\nExperience implementing container security patterns with ECS, EKS, or Kubernetes, including runtime hardening and boundary protections\nExperience performing threat modeling, risk assessments, or cloud-native security reviews\nExperience with Infrastructure-as-Code frameworks, including Terraform, CloudFormation, or AWS CDK, and secure configuration pipelines\nExperience defining security guardrails, baselines, or governance frameworks for cloud adoption\nAWS Solutions Architect Professional, AWS Security Specialty, CISSP, or equivalentCloud Security Certification\nClearance:\nApplicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information; TS/SCI clearance is required.\nCompensation\nAt Booz Allen, we celebrate your contributions, provide you with opportunities and choices, and support your total well-being. Our offerings include health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, as well as paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care. Our recognition awards program acknowledges employees for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of our values. Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in Booz Allen’s benefit programs. Individuals that do not meet the threshold are only eligible for select offerings, not inclusive of health benefits. We encourage you to learn more about our total benefits by visiting the Resource page on our Careers site and reviewing Our Employee Benefits page.\nSalary at Booz Allen is determined by various factors, including but not limited to location, the individual’s particular combination of education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, as well as contract-specific affordability and organizational requirements. The projected compensation range for this position is $86,900.00 to $198,000.00 (annualized USD). The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position and is just one component of Booz Allen’s total compensation package for employees. This posting will close within 90 days from the Posting Date.Identity Statement\nAs part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. 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