AWS Infra Architect

• 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 Infra 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, recommend improvements in architecture, security, reliability, performance and cost; Provide technical guidance during implementation, troubleshooting and production Ops

Key Skills: Systems Engineer some Networking + DevOps+ Infrastructure + AWS Architecture 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, * 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