Senior Devops AWS Architect_Remote_Must have active AWS Solutions Architect certification

Senior DevOps AWS Consultant

12+ months Contract
 
Job Overview

Location is open to the client''s offices in:  San Francisco,CA, Arlington, VA, Denver, CO, Chicago,IL, Boston, NYC, Houston,TX, Miami,FL, Los Angeles,CA, Seattle, WA, Dallas,TX Minneapolis,MN Atlanta, GA  Birmingham, MI or Irvine, CA

Hybrid 2-3 days a week onsite

Job Description
This Staff Consultant role builds automation, CI/CD, Infrastructure-as-Code and operational runbooks for AWS delivery. The consultant is expected to operate as an embedded AWS SME, provide hands-on implementation support, and create audit-ready technical documentation aligned to regulated Financial Services delivery expectations.

Required knowledge: Expertise in Prometheus, Grafana, and Kubernetes observability/monitoring
Understanding of OpenTelemetry standards.
Nice to have: hands-on experience with Splunk, Zabbix, Dynatrace
 

AWS Skills & Services (added)
 

Core Observability & Monitoring:
Amazon CloudWatch: Deep expertise in metrics, logs, alarms, dashboards, and CloudWatch Container Insights for EKS/Kubernetes monitoring
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus (AMP): Hands-on experience deploying, configuring, and managing Prometheus workspaces; integrating with EKS clusters
Amazon Managed Grafana (AMG): Proficiency in creating dashboards, configuring data sources (CloudWatch, AMP, X-Ray), and implementing role-based access
AWS X-Ray: Understanding of distributed tracing, service maps, and integration with containerized applications
Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights: Advanced query capabilities for log analysis and troubleshooting

Container & Orchestration:
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS): Strong knowledge of EKS cluster management, node groups, IRSA (IAM Roles for Service Accounts), and observability add-ons
Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS): Understanding of container monitoring patterns and CloudWatch integration
AWS Fargate: Experience with serverless container monitoring strategies

OpenTelemetry Integration:
AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT): Hands-on experience deploying ADOT Collector on EKS/ECS, configuring exporters for CloudWatch, AMP, and X-Ray
OpenTelemetry standards implementation: Traces, metrics, and logs collection using OTEL SDKs and collectors in AWS environments

Infrastructure & Automation:
AWS CloudFormation / Terraform: Infrastructure-as-Code for deploying monitoring stacks
Amazon EventBridge: Event-driven monitoring and alerting workflows
AWS Systems Manager: Parameter Store for configuration management, Session Manager for troubleshooting
Amazon SNS/SQS: Alert notification and event processing pipelines

Security & Compliance:
AWS IAM: Fine-grained access control for monitoring services, service accounts, and cross-account access
AWS Secrets Manager: Secure credential management for monitoring integrations
AWS KMS: Encryption for logs and metrics data

Networking & Performance:
Amazon VPC: Understanding of VPC Flow Logs, network monitoring, and service mesh observability
AWS PrivateLink: Secure connectivity for monitoring services
Elastic Load Balancing (ALB/NLB): Access logs and performance metrics analysis
AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, GitHub Actions and GitOps workflows
AWS Systems Manager, Step Functions, Python/Bash automation and operational runbooks



Certifications / Qualifications
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate / Professional
HashiCorp Terraform Associate / CKA preferred