AWS Cloud Architect

AWS Cloud Architect 

Alameda, CA (Onsite)

 Full-Time

We are hiring Cloud Architect for providing technical direction to the Cloud Engineering/Platform Engineering team, defining platform engineering goals, driving automation and operational excellence, and working closely with the client technical team to design, implement, and continuously improve AWS Cloud platforms. This role provides technical leadership and direction for the AWS Cloud Engineering/Platform Engineering function. The architect will help establish scalable and secure cloud platforms, improve operational efficiency through automation, reduce manual toil, and align cloud engineering capabilities with client business and technology requirements.

Skills / Experience

• 15 years of overall experience with 8+ years in Cloud/AWS Engineering & Architecture, Platform Engineering and DevOps
• 7+ years of experience in EKS/ECS and containerized workloads, CloudFormation, Terraform/IaC, Ansible, developing reusable/custom modules
• 7+years of experience in EC2, ASG, AMI creation, ECR, S3, Lambda, IAM, SSM/Systems Manager, AWS Control Tower, Cognito, Route 53, and Secrets Manager

Job / Role Description

• Provide day-to-day technical direction and guidance to the Cloud Engineering team
• Define and drive Platform Engineering goals, standards, and best practices
• Design and implement container platforms using Amazon EKS and ECS; Configure Route 53 for domain and DNS management
• Deploy and configure ECS/ECR and support containerized application workloads
• Design and configure AWS Systems Manager (SSM) for operational management and automation
• Design and manage EC2, Auto Scaling Groups and custom AMIs - integration of required security/monitoring agents such as Cortex and Tenable
• Work with AWS Control Tower to establish and maintain governed AWS environments
• Implement and manage Amazon Cognito for application authentication and identity requirements
• Implement AWS Secrets Manager for secure credential management and automated secret/key rotation for services such as Jira, RDS, etc.
• Design advanced S3 configurations, including lifecycle, bucket, expiration, retention and access policies
• Develop AWS Lambda solutions for automation, operational tasks and metrics collection from AWS services such as S3 and IAM
• Develop and maintain reusable Terraform modules for provisioning and managing AWS services
• Use Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation or similar Infrastructure as Code (IaC) technologies to build and manage cloud platforms
• Apply AWS Well-Architected principles with emphasis on Security, Cost Optimization, Performance Efficiency and Operational Excellence
• Identify day-to-day operational toil and define automation opportunities and engineering goals to improve efficiency
• Partner with the client's technical teams to understand requirements and provide cloud architecture and platform engineering direction
• Review existing cloud environments and recommend improvements in architecture, security, reliability, performance and cost
• Provide technical guidance during implementation, troubleshooting and production operations.
• Ability to provide technical leadership and mentor engineers; Strong stakeholder management, documentation and presentation skills
• Ability to translate business/client requirements into technical solutions; Comfortable working with distributed/global teams
• Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills; Ability to work independently and take ownership

Secondary Skills / Good to have

• Strong understanding of AWS Well-Architected Framework, particularly Security, Cost Optimization and Performance Efficiency
• Driving cloud automation, operational improvements and toil reduction; Ability to provide technical direction to Cloud/Platform Engineering teams
• Kubernetes administration and troubleshooting; Advanced Ansible, CI/CD and DevOps tooling, GitHub/GitLab/Azure DevOps
• Python or Bash scripting, Observability/monitoring tools, AWS networking – VPC, Transit Gateway, Load Balancers, VPN, etc.
• AWS Organizations and multi-account architecture, Security and compliance automation, FinOps / advanced AWS cost optimization