Sr. AWS Solutions Architect at Tyto Athene, LLC
$175,000–$200,000from the description
Jul 20, 2026
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Jul 22, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A hands-on senior engineering and architecture role focused on designing, deploying, and securing containerized workloads on AWS — primarily EKS, ECS, and Fargate — for government and enterprise clients. Day-to-day work spans infrastructure hardening, compliance documentation (including ATO support), CI/CD pipeline tooling, and Terraform/CloudFormation scripting. Suits an experienced cloud engineer comfortable with container security tools such as Sysdig Falco and Calico who holds an active Secret clearance.
Senior level · Secret clearance · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (9)
The role is a genuine hybrid between hands-on infrastructure/cloud engineering (15-1244) and software/solutions development (15-1252). The emphasis on designing and implementing container architectures, writing IaC, CI/CD pipelines, and scripting tips the classification toward 15-1252, but the strong operations, hardening, and compliance thread makes 15-1244 a credible runner-up.
Secret clearance is listed under 'Desired' but is stated as 'required' in that same line ('Secret Clearance required'), so it is treated as a hard gate.
A Bachelor's degree is listed as 'preferred' under Desired, so it is not treated as a hard requirement.
Linux distributions (Ubuntu, CentOS, RedHat) and Windows Server are listed together in the Required section; both are captured as separate skills. Active Directory and Exchange are mentioned alongside Windows Server — Exchange is omitted as it is a mail platform not central to the role's scope.
AWS Elastic Beanstalk, CloudFormation (as a standalone tool), and OpsWorks appear in a parenthetical 'preferred experience' qualifier within the Required section; they are marked as preferred accordingly.
CloudFormation appears both as a preferred parenthetical and as an explicit alternative to Terraform in the 'Terraform/CloudFormation' subsection of Required; it is captured as an alternative to Terraform (must-have capability) rather than as a standalone preferred skill to avoid duplication.
The CI/CD tooling requirement lists Chef, Puppet, Jenkins, and Ansible as interchangeable examples; Jenkins is used as the primary name with the others as alternatives.
The scripting language requirement lists Bash, PowerShell, Ruby, Python, and Node.js as interchangeable examples; Bash is used as the primary name with the others as alternatives.
Requires a Secret clearance — the cleared population is a small fraction of this occupation, so the real candidate pool is materially smaller than the estimate below, which does not model clearance.
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