AWS Solution Architect

Role: AWS Solution Architect

Location: Waukegan, IL (hybrid)

Contract

BGV fully cleared for onboarding

Required Skills:

AWS

TIBCO

Job Description / Responsibilities:

Cloud Infrastructure Design & Implementation:

• Design, provision, and manage scalable, secure, and highly available AWS infrastructure (VPC, EC2, EKS, RDS, S3, IAM, Route 53, CloudWatch, etc.).

• Define and implement infrastructure-as-code practices using Terraform or AWS CloudFormation.

• Establish networking, security, and governance standards aligned with AWS Well-Architected Framework.

• Set up CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure provisioning and application deployments.

Kubernetes Platform Engineering

• Deploy, configure, and operate Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) clusters in production.

• Manage containerization strategies and support the migration of workloads to Kubernetes.

• Implement Kubernetes best practices: namespace management, RBAC, pod security policies, autoscaling (HPA/VPA/Cluster Autoscaler), and resource quotas.

• Integrate observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch Container Insights, Fluentd/Fluent Bit).

• Maintain Helm charts and manage deployments through GitOps workflows (e.g., ArgoCD or Flux).

TIBCO On-Prem to Cloud Migration

• Conduct discovery and assessment of the existing TIBCO on-premises infrastructure — including TIBCO Business Works, EMS, and/or Spotfire components 

• Collaborate with application and integration teams to map data flows, dependencies, and integration patterns.

• Identify cloud-native or managed alternatives for TIBCO components where relevant (e.g., Amazon MQ, MSK, Event Bridge).

Must-Have Skills & Experience:

• 10+ years of hands-on experience architecting and managing AWS infrastructure in production environments.

• Strong Kubernetes expertise: 3+ years managing EKS or self-managed clusters in production.

• Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code: Terraform (preferred) or CloudFormation.

• Experience with Linux systems administration and shell scripting (Bash/Python).

• Solid understanding of networking (VPC, subnets, security groups, VPN, Direct Connect, Transit Gateway).

• Experience with container technologies (Docker, Helm, container registries).

• Ability to investigate and reverse-engineer existing middleware architectures with minimal documentation.

• Strong communication skills and ability to work cross-functionally with architecture, development, and business stakeholders.

• Familiarity with TIBCO products: BusinessWorks, EMS (Enterprise Message Service), Spotfire, or TIBCO Cloud.

• Experience migrating or decommissioning on-premises middleware to cloud-native solutions.

• Knowledge of cloud-native messaging/integration services: Amazon MQ, MSK (Kafka), SQS/SNS, EventBridge.

• Experience with GitOps tools (ArgoCD, Flux).

• Exposure to service mesh technologies (Istio, AWS App Mesh).

• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer or Kubernetes certifications (CKA, CKAD).