Aws Architect

Summary

Join our team as an AWS Architect for a long-term, fully remote contract (2+ years) within the continental US! You will design, develop, and maintain our client's cloud environment across commercial and government AWS clouds. Collaborate with engineers and architects to build secure, resilient, and high-performance infrastructure. This role requires extensive AWS experience and expertise in Kubernetes. You will be responsible for infrastructure as code, automation, and ensuring compliance standards are met. The ideal candidate possesses a strong understanding of networking, security, and monitoring tools.

Requirements

• 3 + years of experience working within a cloud architect role designing and deploying scalable, highly available, and fault tolerant systems on AWS
• 8 + years of experience working within a cloud engineer/SRE role
• Strong knowledge of AWS services (ex. VPC, EC2, S3, ECS, Cloudformation, Lambda, EKS, RDS, ELB, Route53, RedShift, Chime, Connect)
• Expert knowledge and hands on production experience in Kubernetes (EKS or AKS) cluster setup and management
• Experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools like Terraform
• Experience with Kubernetes deployment tools like Helm, ArgoCD, Flux
• Strong awareness of networking and internet protocols
• Understanding of identity and access management (IAM)
• Experience supporting infrastructure in production cloud environments
• Knowledge of Encryption (KMS), Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), understanding of OWASP
• Experience working with RESTful services
• Experience supporting environments adhering compliance standards like FedRAMP and NIST (800-171|53)
• Some experience with monitoring tools (CloudWatch, VPC Flow Logs, Splunk, Dynatrace, Grafana, Prometheus)
• Familiarity with IDEs and Source Control tools like Azure DevOps, Github or Gitlab

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and operate IaaS and PaaS infrastructure in AWS commercial and government clouds
• Select the appropriate AWS service based on data, compute, database, or security requirements
• Identify appropriate use of AWS architectural best practices
• Work closely with dev teams to identify and measure SLOs, SLAs and SLIs
• Act a strong contributor to development of platform services including architecture, provisioning, configuration, deployment, and support
• Perform integrations with central logging, metrics dashboards, instrumentation, incident monitoring and management
• Build/integrate/administer systems and tools that enable engineering teams to observe their applications in production with autonomy (Dashboards, APMs)
• Assist with identification and remediation of technical problems at the root cause by continuously implementing automation, self-healing, and real-time monitoring to production systems
• Maintain and improve operational tooling, frameworks
• Build frameworks that test the performance and resiliency of our platform services/tools
• Automate alerts for metrics on performance, cost, vulnerabilities, risk, compliance violations
• Improve processes and champion automation of any manual items around support

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, Math, Physics
• Master's Degree with coursework focused on advanced algorithms, mathematics in computing, data structures or related field
• Expert knowledge of deploying Production grade applications in AWS
• Demonstrate passion about infrastructure automation
• Ability to prioritize work in a fast-paced environment

Benefits

100% remote in the continental US