FedRAMP & AWS GovCloud Program Lead

FedRAMP & AWS GovCloud Program Lead

Anywhere

Type: Consulting

Category: Delivery Leader

Industry: Communications

Workplace Type: Remote

Reference ID: JN -032026-106208

Date Posted: 03/30/2026

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Our client seeks a senior FedRAMP and AWS GovCloud leader to advise telecommunications and regulated clients on modernization, migration, and authorization. The role owns strategy, roadmap, and oversight to move legacy workloads to FedRAMP-authorized AWS GovCloud. The leader brings direct FedRAMP program experience, telecom domain understanding, and the ability to translate regulatory controls into phased, practical architectures. The work spans advisory to delivery leadership across security, architecture, and compliance.

We can facilitate w2 and corp-to-corp consultants. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.

Rate: $90.00 to $100.00/hr. w2

Responsibilities:

• Lead FedRAMP readiness assessments, gap analyses, and authorization strategies for Moderate and High baselines.

• Define and own FedRAMP roadmaps including scope, sequencing, cost drivers, and timelines.

• Guide clients through FedRAMP documentation, control implementation, and audit preparation.

• Coordinate across AWS GovCloud, 3PAOs, and client security teams.

• Advise on shared responsibility models and system boundary definition.

• Lead migration strategies from on-prem or commercial cloud to AWS GovCloud.

• Assess and modernize legacy applications including monoliths, custom platforms, and telecom systems.

• Define target-state architectures aligned to FedRAMP security, scalability, and resiliency.

• Advise on re-host, re-platform, and re-factor patterns within regulated constraints.

• Ensure alignment between security, architecture, and business outcomes.

• Apply telecommunications domain knowledge including high availability, resiliency, legacy dependencies, and data sovereignty.

• Translate telecom constraints into compliant cloud architectures.

• Support additional regulated clients such as justice, public safety, and federal-adjacent workloads.

• Serve as primary FedRAMP and GovCloud advisor to executives and technology leaders.

• Present executive-level narratives on risk, tradeoffs, and decision points.

• Lead cross-functional teams across security, cloud, application modernization, and compliance.

• Support pre-sales through roadmap creation, solution framing, and credibility building.

Experience Requirements:

• 10+ years in cloud architecture, security, or regulated technology programs.

• Direct, hands-on leadership of FedRAMP programs, preferably for multiple clients.

• Proven experience with AWS GovCloud including architecture, services, and security patterns.

• Experience migrating from on-prem and/or commercial AWS to GovCloud.

• Strong understanding of NIST 800-53, FedRAMP controls, and compliance workflows.

• Experience working with 3PAOs and federal or federal-adjacent stakeholders.

• Ability to operate in ambiguity and define strategy ahead of full technical detail.

• Prior experience with telecommunications clients (preferred).

• End-to-end FedRAMP Moderate and/or High authorizations (preferred).

• Advisory experience pre-authorization, not only during audits (preferred).

• Background in public safety, justice, or mission-critical systems (preferred).

• AWS certifications such as Solutions Architect or Security with GovCloud experience (preferred).

Education Requirements:

• AWS Certifications such as Solutions Architect or Security.

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Eliassen Group is a leading strategic consulting company for human-powered solutions. For over 30 years, Eliassen has helped thousands of companies reach further and achieve more with their technology solutions, financial, risk & compliance, and advisory solutions, and clinical solutions. With offices from coast to coast and throughout Europe, Eliassen provides a local community presence, balanced with international reach. Eliassen Group strives to positively impact the lives of their employees, clients, consultants, and the communities in which they operate.

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