Job description
AWS Architect
Long term contract- 2+ years
100% remote in the continental US
Our client is seeking an AWS Architect that will architect, develop, and maintain our client’s cloud environment in both the commercial and government AWS cloud. The role will work closely with software engineers, architects, and DevOps engineers to architect and maintain a secure, resilient and high performance cloud infrastructure. OO
Essential Functions Include:
- Build, maintain, and operate IaaS and PaaS infrastructure in AWS commercial and government clouds
- Selecting the appropriate AWS service based on data, compute, database, or security requirements
- Identifying 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.
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 required.
- 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.
Preferences:
- 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.
