Overview
Remote
$80+
Contract - W2
Contract - 6 Month(s)
Skills
Amazon Web Services
Cloud Architecture
DevOps
Regulatory Compliance
Shell Scripting
Python
Docker
Bash
Change Management
Account Management
FinOps
Cost Optimization
Governance
Job Details
Position: Sr. AWS Cloud Architect
Location: Remote
Hiring Mode: 6 Months Contract
Job Description:
Responsibilities:
- Architecture Design: Designing and documenting core cloud infrastructure architectures, ensuring scalability, security, reliability, and cost-effectiveness.
- Standards & Best Practices: Defining and maintaining cloud architecture standards, best practices, and patterns for the organization.
- Governance & Compliance: Ensuring adherence to cloud architecture standards and compliance requirements. This includes vulnerability and compliance remediation strategy and coordination, not hands-on patching.
- Cost Optimization (FinOps Collaboration): Collaborating with FinOps to ensure cost-effective cloud designs and implementations.
- Technology Evaluation: Evaluating new cloud technologies and services and making recommendations for adoption.
- Mentoring: Mentoring Cloud Engineers on architecture best practices and design principles.
- Collaboration: Participating in CS scrum meetings, coordinating with the CS PM, and providing Tier 3 support.
- Communication: Relaying important AWS notifications and industry news.
- Change Management: Reviewing and approving change requests (CHG).
- Account Management: Creating and deleting cloud accounts.
- RGA-ism Awareness: (Clarify what this means and how it fits within the architecture role.)
- Proficiency in one or more OS shell scripting languages and willingness to learn others: BASH, PowerShell.
- Proficiency in one or more modern scripting languages and willingness to learn others: Python, NodeJS.
- Knowledge of (or willingness to learn), how to write & use unit tests & integration tests for: Python, NodeJS.
- Knowledge of (or willingness to learn) CI/CD with Jenkins.
This role to maintain one or more of the following certifications:
- AWS DevOps Engineer Professional.
- AWS Solutions Architect Professional
- AWS Security Specialty
- AWS Advanced Networking Specialty
- CompTIA Linux+
- Docker Certified Associate
AZ-040T00-A: Automating Administration with PowerShell
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