Application deadline: Dec 8, 2025
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AWS Worldwide Public Sector (WWPS) is seeking an AWS Specialist Solutions Architects (SSAs) for Container Services. An AWS SA Specialist are technologists with deep domain-specific expertise, able to address advanced concepts and feature designs. You will provide technical expertise to help grow the adoption of a portfolio of services that includes Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service, Amazon Elastic Container Registry, and AWS App Mesh. As a part of this team, you will have the opportunity to help shape the future of the container industry. SSAs work with customers who have complex challenges that require expert-level knowledge to solve. SSAs craft scalable, flexible, and resilient technical architectures that address those challenges. This might involve guiding customers as they refactor an application or designing entirely new cloud-based systems.
Candidates for this role will have a passion for solving business challenges through cloud technology. As a Specialist Solutions Architect (SSA) for Container Services, you will work with U.S. Federal customers to develop bespoke solutions using the AWS Container Services along with the use of Amazon's utility computing web services (e.g., AWS EC2, AWS S3, AWS RDS, HPC, and AWS CloudFront) directly with customers and our ecosystem of system integrators and solution providers. These customers face unique challenges in accomplishing complex missions with limited resources while trying to serve citizens more effectively and accelerate innovation and digital transformation.
Key job responsibilities
Your broad responsibilities will include:
- Helping U.S. Federal Civilian Government organizations implement innovative cloud computing solutions and solve technical problems.
- Owning the technical engagement and ultimate success around specific implementation projects.
- Defining implementation architectures, responding to RFPs, developing a deep expertise in the AWS technologies as well as broad know-how around how applications and services are constructed using the AWS platform.
- Represent the voice of the customer; bring customer feedback to product teams to influence feature development and future product roadmap.
- Provide advanced technical knowledge to your domain aligned GTM teams to unblock our customers' largest and most critical business challenges.
- Act as a thought leader sharing best practices through forums such as AWS blogs, whitepapers, reference architectures and public-speaking events such as AWS Summit, AWS re:Invent, etc.
- Develop and support an AWS internal community of technical subject matter experts worldwide. Create field enablement materials for the broader SA population, to help them understand how to integrate Amazon Web Services solutions into customer architectures.
A day in the life
The Solutions Architects on our team provide exceptional technical design and thought leadership to the Federal Government. They lead efforts to capture and share best-practice knowledge among the AWS solution architect community. You get to learn from, collaborate with, and educate some of the brightest technical minds in the industry today across the breadth of enterprise architecture. The typical day might include meeting with customers, collaborating with AWS technical product managers, working with others to build and test demonstrations and proofs of concept, and writing technical content such as blog posts and papers.
About the team
The US Federal Specialist Solutions Architecture Team consists of Security, Networking, Hybrid Edge, GEN AI, Containers and GovCloud Specialist Solutions Architects located across the US. This team is vertically aligned and supports the US Federal customer base consisting of some of the largest, most complex AWS customers. The team operates on key tenets including being domain experts who provide thought leadership with deep AWS expertise, taking ownership of specialist engagements, maintaining contextual knowledge, scaling through reusable assets, gathering customer feedback, and maintaining alignment with the broader AWS community.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS - 3+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience
- 5+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience
- 4+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS - Experience working within software development or Internet-related industries
- Experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud
- Experience working with AWS technologies from a dev/ops perspective
- Intermediate/advanced knowledge of the AWS services.
- 5+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience
- 5+ years of experience designing, implementing, and managing Kubernetes environments at scale
- Proven experience architecting containerized applications and microservices architectures
- Strong background in DevOps practices and CI/CD pipeline implementation using Kubernetes
- Experience managing multiple Kubernetes clusters
- Demonstrated expertise in Kubernetes security, networking, and storage concepts
- Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, Helm) for Kubernetes deployments
- Experience troubleshooting complex distributed systems and container-based applications
- Experience within the Federal Government.
- Understanding of infrastructure and security requirements, such as FedRAMP Moderate/High, HIPAA, DoD SRG, CJIS, etc.
- Current, active US Government Security Clearance of Top Secret or above
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The base pay range for this position is listed below. Hourly pay ranges include the base pay rate plus the highest available shift differential which applies depending on the shift you select.
Colorado $131,300 - $177,600 annually / hourly
National $118,200 - $204,300 annually / hourly
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For hourly roles, as a total compensation company, you are eligible for additional earnings including overtime pay and performance bonuses. Final pay will be based on factors including shift selection and location. Starting Day 1 of employment, Amazon offers EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, 401(k) matching. Learn more about our benefits at .
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