AWS Technical Architect

Thunderhawk Technology Partners
Irvine, CA, United States
25 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Temporary contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

Java (Programming Language) Amazon Web Services Amazon Cloudfront Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Amazon S3 Audit Trail Bash Shell Cloud Computing Cloud Engineering Databases Continuous Integration DevOps
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Amazon DynamoDB Fault Tolerance Github Identity and Access Management Subnetting Python (Programming Language) Key Management Node.Js Performance Tuning Windows PowerShell Cloud Services Ansible Scripting Load Balancing Delivery Pipeline Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Cloudformation Containerization Kubernetes Infrastructure Automation Frameworks Deployment Automation Route53 Cloud Migration Opsworks Cloudwatch Terraform Splunk Serverless Computing Docker Elk Stack Jenkins Microservices

Job description

  • Design, architect, and implement enterprise-grade AWS cloud solutions.
  • Lead cloud migration and modernization initiatives.
  • Build secure, scalable, and highly available cloud infrastructure.
  • Implement Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Optimize cloud performance, security, governance, and cost.
  • Collaborate with development, infrastructure, and security teams to deliver cloud-native solutions.
  • Provide architectural guidance and technical leadership throughout the project lifecycle.

Requirements

  • Strong hands-on experience with AWS Cloud Architecture and AWS Migration projects.
  • Expertise in designing scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant cloud solutions.
  • Experience with AWS Well-Architected Framework and cloud modernization initiatives., * Compute: EC2, Lambda, ECS, EKS
  • Storage: S3, EBS, EFS, Glacier
  • Databases: RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, Redshift
  • Networking: VPC, Subnets, Route 53, Load Balancers, CloudFront

Cloud Architecture & Design

  • Design and implement highly available, fault-tolerant, and scalable cloud solutions.
  • Expertise in microservices and serverless architectures.
  • Experience with Multi-AZ and Multi-Region deployment strategies.
  • Strong understanding of AWS Well-Architected Framework.

Security & Identity Management

  • AWS IAM (Roles, Policies, Permissions)
  • Security Groups and Network ACLs
  • Encryption using AWS KMS and SSL/TLS
  • Experience with compliance frameworks such as HIPAA, SOC2, and GDPR.

DevOps & Automation

  • CI/CD using AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild, Jenkins, and GitHub Actions.
  • Infrastructure as Code using Terraform (Preferred) and CloudFormation.
  • Knowledge of configuration management tools such as Ansible or Chef is a plus.

Monitoring & Performance

  • AWS CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and AWS Config.
  • Log management using ELK Stack or Splunk.
  • Performance tuning, monitoring, and AWS cost optimization.

Containers & Orchestration

  • Strong hands-on experience with Docker.
  • Kubernetes (Amazon EKS).
  • Containerized application architecture and deployment.

Programming & Scripting

  • Experience with at least one programming language:
  • Python
  • Java
  • Node.js
  • Go
  • Scripting using Bash and/or PowerShell.

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