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# AWS Cloud Data Architect_Chicago

- **Company:** ACE Limited
- **Location:** Chicago, IL, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Microsoft Windows, Amazon Web Services, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon S3, Data Analysis, Unix, Software as a Service, Cyber Security, Computer Programming, Computer Engineering, Continuous Integration, Information Engineering, Data Warehousing, Linux, Github, Identity and Access Management, Python (Programming Language), PostgreSQL, Linux Servers, MongoDB, Platform as a Service (PAAS), Windows PowerShell, Redis, SQL Databases, Scripting, Delivery Pipeline, Snowflake, State Machines, Electronic Medical Records, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Cloudformation, Amazon Relational Database Service, AWS Aurora, Kubernetes, AWS Fargate, Apache Kafka, Functional Programming, Terraform, Data Pipelines, Docker, Jenkins
- **Published:** September 18, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/9aa9fc4e-3244-4240-80e8-c6166528fe0b

## About the Role

Must have:

Kafka at enterprise streaming scale

Kubernetes, Docker, or AWS Fargate

Mixed Windows/Linux server environments

Networking/security group/policy management across UNIX, Linux, Windows

Required technical qualifications:

6+ years in application/platform engineering, BI, or analytics

4+ years senior AWS cloud data engineering - architecting, managing, implementing best practices

Data warehousing: Snowflake, Redshift, or similar

Deep AWS service knowledge: S3, EC2, RDS, Lambda, CloudFormation, Kinesis, Data Pipelines, EMR, Step Functions, VPC, IAM, Security Groups

DB/programming: SQL, Python, PostgreSQL, AWS Aurora/RDS, MongoDB, Redis

CI/CD: GitHub Actions, Jenkins, AWS CodePipeline, CloudFormation, Terraform

Strong IAM roles/policies expertise

AWS cloud monitoring/alerting setup

Scripting: PowerShell and/or Python

PaaS/SaaS application performance knowledge

Ability to read enterprise architecture diagrams + understand IT security requirements

Additional qualifications:

Comfort with ambiguity, fast-paced/changing environment

Experience building scalable data pipelines

On-premises to AWS migration experience specifically

BA/BS in Computer Engineering, CS, or related field

Strong communication skills



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