Job Title: Cloud Architect, Senior Cloud Migration Architect - Hybrid
Primary Skills: build & operate workloads on AWS, Elastic Beanstalk, Kubernetes, Docker, ArgoCD, Flux, YAML,
Terraform or CloudFormation/CDK.
Location: Lansing, MI. (Local candidates (strongly preferred) or non-local (must be willing to relocate at their own expense from acceptance with no delays & follow the hybrid schedule).
Start Details: 6/15/2026
Duration: 6 months with possible extension.
Work Arrangement: Hybrid: Resource will be working a hybrid schedule. NO REMOTE ONLY OPTION. Will need to be onsite from day 1, two days a week.
Interviews: In-person interviews ONLY.
Required Skills
- Overall IT experience: Required. 5-6 + yrs.
- Education: Bachelor's degree. Required.
- Certifications: AWS certifications: AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional or DevOps Engineer Professional. Highly desired.
- MUST have excellent communication skills (both oral and written). Required.
- Hands-on experience building and operating production workloads on AWS, with deep knowledge of Elastic Beanstalk, EKS, EC2, RDS, VPC, IAM, S3, CloudWatch, and Secrets Manager. Required. 5-6 + yrs.
- Hands-on with Kubernetes - production EKS preferred, including Helm, kubectl, ingress (ALB/NGINX), HPA, and troubleshooting pods/services/networking. Required. 3 + yrs.
- Solid Docker skills - multi-stage builds, image hardening, ECR. Required.
- Production experience with ArgoCD or Flux - designed app-of-apps structure, managed multi-environment promotion, and resolved GitOps drift in real workloads. This is non-negotiable. Required.
- Strong Azure DevOps Pipelines (YAML) experience - build pipelines, multi-stage release pipelines, variable groups, service connections, and self-hosted/Microsoft-hosted agents.
Equivalent strong experience in another major CI/CD tool (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins) is acceptable if Azure DevOps can be picked up quickly. Required.
- Infrastructure-as-Code in production: Terraform (preferred) or CloudFormation/CDK. Required.
- Database familiarity - comfortable working with DBA teams on RDS (SQL Server and PostgreSQL), connection strings, secrets rotation, and migration cutover. Required.
- Linux administration (RHEL/Amazon Linux/Ubuntu) and shell scripting (bash). Required.
- Source control with Git - branching strategies, pull requests, code review discipline. Required.
Education:
Bachelor's degree in information Technology or related field or equivalent experience required.
Priya Vadapalli
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