Designs, implements, and manages secure, scalable AWS environments for enterprise and SaaS applications across commercial and GovCloud regions. Responsibilities include infrastructure as code, CI/CD, identity and access management, monitoring, databases, tenant provisioning, compliance, backup and disaster recovery, and troubleshooting. The architect collaborates with technical and business stakeholders to define requirements, resolve issues, and improve cloud reliability, performance, security, and cost efficiency.
At Goldschmitt and Associates LLC (G&A), we’re not just another company—we’re a catalyst for innovation and impact, and we’re inviting passionate, forward-thinking individuals to join us on this journey. Recognized multiple times on the Inc 5000 list of the fastest-growing companies, G&A is a leader in tech transformation and system modernization for some of the nation’s most important federal agencies.
Our culture is built on creativity and collaboration. We offer flexible schedules, telework options, and an environment where your ideas truly matter. At G&A, you won’t just clock in—you’ll be solving real-world challenges and working on projects that make a difference in the lives of millions.
Joining our team means becoming part of a vibrant, connected community where innovation thrives, your voice is heard, and your impact is felt. Whether you’re a tech enthusiast, a strategic thinker, or a problem-solver, at G&A, you’ll have the opportunity to level up your career while making a real-world impact.
If you’re ready to be part of a company that values purpose as much as progress, G&A is the place for you!
Summary:
Goldschmitt is seeking an AWS Cloud Architect
This position is remote with preference given to candidates who live within a commutable distance to the DMV area.
The anticipated salary for this position is $160,000.00- $180,000.00.
Job Duties and Responsibilities:
Our culture is built on creativity and collaboration. We offer flexible schedules, telework options, and an environment where your ideas truly matter. At G&A, you won’t just clock in—you’ll be solving real-world challenges and working on projects that make a difference in the lives of millions.
Joining our team means becoming part of a vibrant, connected community where innovation thrives, your voice is heard, and your impact is felt. Whether you’re a tech enthusiast, a strategic thinker, or a problem-solver, at G&A, you’ll have the opportunity to level up your career while making a real-world impact.
If you’re ready to be part of a company that values purpose as much as progress, G&A is the place for you!
Summary:
Goldschmitt is seeking an AWS Cloud Architect
This position is remote with preference given to candidates who live within a commutable distance to the DMV area.
The anticipated salary for this position is $160,000.00- $180,000.00.
Job Duties and Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, implement, and maintain AWS cloud environments supporting enterprise/SaaS applications
- Participate in application and cloud architecture design and implementation
- Manage production, staging, development, testing, and other application environments within AWS
- Design cloud architectures that support scalability, availability, security, performance, and reliability
- Implement and maintain AWS Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines and DevOps processes
- Implement and manage application user authentication and authorization methods
- Design and maintain databases, data models, queries, and supporting scripts
- Identify and implement application and infrastructure modifications necessary to meet FedRAMP and other applicable security and compliance requirements
- Implement and maintain AWS account, application-level, compliance, and tenant monitoring
- Implement and manage AWS identity, access controls, roles, policies, and permissions following least-privilege principles
- Implement and maintain cloud infrastructure monitoring, logging, metrics, alerting, and operational dashboards
- Monitor cloud environments for availability, performance, security, capacity, and cost
- Troubleshoot and resolve cloud infrastructure, networking, deployment, configuration, and availability issues
- Implement backup, recovery, resiliency, and disaster recovery capabilities
- Design and implement automated tenant management and provisioning capabilities
- Support both AWS Commercial and AWS GovCloud environments
- Collaborate with technical and business stakeholders to identify requirements, resolve technical issues, and recommend improvements
- Strong experience designing, implementing, and managing production AWS environments.
- Experience supporting cloud-hosted enterprise and/or SaaS applications
- Experience designing and managing secure, scalable, highly available AWS architectures
- Experience with containerized application environments and cloud deployment architectures
- Experience implementing cloud security, identity and access management, monitoring, logging, and alerting
- Experience with CI/CD and automated deployment processes
- Experience supporting cloud environments subject to security and compliance requirements
- Possess at least 7 years of professional IT, cloud engineering, infrastructure, and DevOps experience
- Possess a Bachelor's degree
- Possess the ability to pass and maintain eligibility for a Public Trust investigation, including United States citizenship
- Possess experience with the following:
- Technologies: API Management
- AWS Technologies: ECS, Application Load Balancers, Lambda Functions, CDK, IAM, Secrets Manager, CloudWatch, RDS, Simple Notification Service (SNS), CloudFront
- Platforms: AWS, Docker Containers
- Databases: MySQL, NoSQL
- Tools: Git, CI/CD, Swagger/OpenAPI, JUnit
- Possess experience with the following:
- Programming Languages: Node.js
- AWS Technologies: AWS GovCloud, CloudFormation, Simple Email Service (SES), Cognito, API Gateway, Security Hub, GuardDuty, AWS Step Functions
- Observability: distributed tracing (X-Ray or OpenTelemetry)
- Databases: Redis, DynamoDB
- Compliance & Security: FedRAMP, ATO
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