Description:

The position is for an AWS Architect who will architect, develop, and maintain the client's cloud environment in both commercial and government AWS clouds.
The role is 100% remote within the continental US and is a long-term contract lasting over 2 years.
The AWS Architect will work closely with software engineers, architects, and DevOps engineers to ensure a secure, resilient, and high-performance cloud infrastructure.
Essential functions include building, maintaining, and operating IaaS and PaaS infrastructure in AWS, selecting appropriate AWS services based on various requirements, and identifying AWS architectural best practices.
The architect will collaborate with development teams to identify and measure SLOs, SLAs, and SLIs, and contribute to the development of platform services including architecture, provisioning, configuration, deployment, and support.
Responsibilities also include performing integrations with central logging, metrics dashboards, and incident monitoring, as well as building and administering systems that enable engineering teams to observe their applications in production.
The role involves identifying and remediating technical problems, maintaining operational tooling, and building frameworks to test the performance and resiliency of platform services.
The architect will automate alerts for metrics related to performance, cost, vulnerabilities, and compliance violations, and improve processes by championing automation of manual support tasks.

Requirements:

Candidates must have 3+ years of experience in a cloud architect role designing and deploying scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant systems on AWS.
A minimum of 8+ years of experience in a cloud engineer or SRE role is required.
Strong knowledge of AWS services such as VPC, EC2, S3, ECS, CloudFormation, Lambda, EKS, RDS, ELB, Route53, RedShift, Chime, and Connect is essential.
Expert knowledge and hands-on production experience in Kubernetes (EKS or AKS) cluster setup and management is required.
Experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools like Terraform is necessary.
Familiarity with Kubernetes deployment tools such as Helm, ArgoCD, and Flux is expected.
Candidates should have a strong awareness of networking and internet protocols, as well as an understanding of identity and access management (IAM).
Experience supporting infrastructure in production cloud environments is required.
Knowledge of encryption (KMS), Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), and an understanding of OWASP is necessary.
Experience working with RESTful services and supporting environments adhering to compliance standards like FedRAMP and NIST (800-171|53) is required.
Some experience with monitoring tools such as CloudWatch, VPC Flow Logs, Splunk, Dynatrace, Grafana, and Prometheus is preferred.
Familiarity with IDEs and source control tools like Azure DevOps, GitHub, or GitLab is also necessary.

The position offers a fully remote work environment, allowing for flexibility and work-life balance.
Candidates can choose between W2 or 1099 employment options.
The contract is long-term, providing job stability for over 2 years.
The role involves working with cutting-edge cloud technologies and the opportunity to collaborate with skilled professionals in the field.
There is potential for professional growth and development within the cloud architecture domain.