Cloud/Platform/Systems Specialist :: Des Moines, IA (Onsite)

Seeking for a Cloud/Platform/Systems Specialist to support senior resources and lead infrastructure initiatives. The goal is to modernize IT infrastructure and operations to enhance efficiency, scalability, and reliability across hybrid cloud environments. This role focuses on eliminating legacy solutions, improving operational efficiency, reducing manual intervention, and enabling scalable infrastructure solutions. Responsibilities:

• Design, maintain, and optimize hybrid platforms bridging on-premises infrastructure with AWS cloud services.
• Administer AWS environments (EC2, VPC, IAM, S3) to support enterprise workloads.
• Create hybrid workload patterns for seamless identity, authentication, and application services.
• Migrate legacy systems to AWS, including developing modernization roadmaps and workload readiness assessments.
• Document system architectures and produce AWS architecture diagrams.
• Provide senior tier support for issues escalated from various teams.
• Ensure platform resilience by monitoring, optimizing, and maintaining cloud and on-prem components.
• Identify cost optimization opportunities and maintain architecture diagrams and operational procedures.
• Define IaC patterns and collaborate on Terraform module designs.
• Support CI/CD infrastructure pipelines and collaborate with teams to optimize workloads for hybrid cloud environments.
• Support organizational security and compliance goals by implementing platform controls.

• 5+ years of experience in designing and administering AWS environments.
• Experience in creating hybrid workload patterns.
• Experience in migrating legacy systems to AWS.
• Experience in documenting system architectures and producing AWS architecture diagrams.
• Experience in diagnosing complex AWS identity, network, or compute issues.
• Experience in eliminating single points of failure in design patterns.
• Experience in implementing performance dashboards.
• Experience in identifying cost optimization opportunities.
• Experience in maintaining architecture diagrams, standards, IaC manifests, and operational procedures.
• Experience in defining IaC patterns and collaborating on Terraform module designs.
• Experience in supporting CI/CD infrastructure pipelines.
• Experience in enforcing AWS guardrails and producing audit evidence packages.