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AWS Cloud Architect

Ztek ConsultingSt. Louis, MO🇺🇸United StatesPosted 14 Aug 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

This hybrid AWS Cloud Architect role offers a fantastic opportunity to design and manage cutting-edge cloud-native environments, leveraging your expertise in EKS, Kubernetes, and Infrastructure as Code to drive innovation. You'll thrive here if you're a mid-senior professional passionate about building scalable, secure, and highly available solutions, and you're encouraged to apply to join this dynamic team.

Quick Overview

Work Type
Hybrid
Level
Mid Senior

Job Description

Job Overview

We are seeking an experienced AWS Cloud Architect with strong expertise in Amazon EKS, Kubernetes, AWS networking, security, and Infrastructure as Code. The candidate will design and manage scalable, secure, and highly available cloud-native environments.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Design and manage Amazon EKS clusters using EC2, Fargate, Karpenter/EKS Auto Mode, and multi-AZ architecture.
  • Implement AWS networking using VPC, VPC CNI, ALB, AWS Load Balancer Controller, and service mesh technologies such as Istio/App Mesh.
  • Implement enterprise security using IAM, EKS Pod Identity/IRSA, NetworkPolicies, Security Groups, and ECR.
  • Establish observability using CloudWatch, Container Insights, Fluent Bit, OpenTelemetry/AWS X-Ray.
  • Design microservices architectures using DynamoDB, Aurora, SQS, and SNS.
  • Automate infrastructure using Terraform or AWS CDK.
  • Implement GitOps using Argo CD and Helm.
  • Ensure high availability, scalability, security, performance, and resiliency across AWS environments.

Skills

DynamoDB
Microservices
AWS
Service Mesh
CDK
Helm
Istio
Kubernetes
Terraform

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