AWS Solutions Architect
- Military veterans preferred
2025-09-17 Tantus Technologies, Inc.
Other
/yr
employee
contract
Washington District of Columbia 20001 United States
Position Title: AWS Solutions Architect City: Washington State: DC Country: US Type: Temporary Full-Time # of Openings: 1 Company Name: DOED-FSA-FMSG FMS Support
Overview:
Tantus Technologies, Inc. (Tantus) - recognized by the Washington Post as a Top Workplace - is seeking an experienced AWS Solutions Architect with deep expertise in Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS Custom. This role involves designing, implementing, and optimizing cloud-native solutions that leverage AWS compute and database services to meet business requirements for scalability, security, performance, and cost-efficiency.
Clearance: This position supports a federal contract and requires U.S. citizenship or lawful permanent resident (Green Card holder) status, as well as the ability to obtain a Public Trust clearance (T4/6C-HighRisk Public Trust).
What Youll do:
End-to-end migration of On-Prem infrastructure and applications to AWS Cloud.
Configure and manage EC2 and RDS Custom instances, networking (VPC, subnets, security groups), and load balancing.
Deploy and tune EC2 and RDS Custom instances for specialized database
backup/recovery, and disaster recovery solutions for EC2 and RDS Custom.
Work with Infrastructure, developers, DBAs, and DevOps teams to enable CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code (IaC) for EC2 and RDS Custom deployments.
Act as a subject matter expert (SME) to stakeholders, providing consultation on cloud adoption strategies, workload modernization, and emerging AWS services.
Deliver technical documentation, diagrams, and knowledge transfer sessions.
Provide guidance on security processes and procedures to comply with NIST, ISO, CIS, CMM and FedRAMP standards in AWS-Cloud, and On-Prem to meet the customer SLA for Disaster recovery.
Required knowledge and skills
Over 10-12 years in IT, specifically, in designing, implementing and supporting technical infrastructure, architecture with a minimum of 3 years of experience working in cloud environment.
Proven experience architecting and deploying solutions on AWS, with emphasis on EC2 and RDS Custom.
Strong knowledge of Linux/Windows server administration, networking, and security in cloud environments.
Hands-on experience with databases (Oracle) and customizations supported by EC2 and/or RDS Custom.
On-Hands experience with large-scale cloud migration, infrastructure modernization, and digital transformation programs, ensuring seamless execution and alignment with enterprise strategy.
Abilities
Ability to work with cross functionality teams.
Strong problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills.
On hands experience with security hardening.
Nice to haves
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate
Equal employment opportunity, including veterans and individuals with disabilities.
