Director, AWS Architecture

Business Unit:

Cubic Transportation Systems

Company Details:

When you join Cubic, you become part of a company that creates and delivers technology solutions in transportation to make people’s lives easier by simplifying their daily journeys, and defense capabilities to help promote mission success and safety for those who serve their nation. Led by our talented teams around the world, Cubic is committed to solving global issues through innovation and service to our customers and partners.
We have a top-tier portfolio of businesses, including Cubic Transportation Systems (CTS) and Cubic Defense (CD). Explore more on Cubic.com.

Job Details:

Architecture & design
Designs scalable, secure, cost-efficient cloud solutions aligned to business needs; defines reference architectures and design patterns; leads well-architected framework reviews across the five (or six) pillars — operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, cost optimization, and sustainability.

Migration & modernization
Plans and executes migrations from on-prem or other clouds to AWS; assesses workloads for re-host, re-platform, or re-architect strategies; modernizes legacy applications toward microservices, containers, and serverless.

Security & compliance
Designs IAM policies, network segmentation (VPC, subnets, security groups), encryption, and identity federation; ensures compliance with standards like SOC 2, HIPAA, FedRAMP, or PCI-DSS as relevant; implements least-privilege access and governance guardrails (SCPs, Control Tower, Organizations).

Infrastructure as Code & automation
Builds and maintains IaC using CloudFormation, CDK, or Terraform; automates provisioning, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment workflows; drives DevOps and GitOps practices.

Cost management
Optimizes spend through right-sizing, reserved/spot instances, savings plans, and tagging strategies; monitors cost via Cost Explorer and Budgets; advises on FinOps practices.

Reliability & scalability
Designs for high availability, disaster recovery, multi-region/multi-AZ resilience; sets up auto-scaling, load balancing, and fault-tolerant architectures; defines RTO/RPO strategies.

Monitoring & operations
Implements observability using CloudWatch, X-Ray, and third-party tools; establishes logging, alerting, and incident response processes; supports operational runbooks.

Stakeholder & technical leadership
Collaborates with engineering, security, and business teams to translate requirements into technical solutions; mentors developers and junior architects; documents architecture decisions (ADRs) and presents to leadership; stays current with new AWS services and industry best practices; often holds certifications like AWS Solutions Architect Professional or AWS Security Specialty.

Data & AI/ML enablement (increasingly common)
Architects data lakes, analytics pipelines, and ML platforms using services like S3, Redshift, Glue, SageMaker, and Bedrock.

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Worker Type:

Employee

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We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds. We do not discriminate based on any protected characteristic under applicable law.