AWS Cloud Architect

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Summary

Goldschmitt is seeking an AWS Cloud Architect

This position is remote with preference given to candidates who live within a commutable distance to the DMV area.

The anticipated salary for this position is $160,000.00- $180,000.00.

Job Duties and Responsibilities

• Design, develop, implement, and maintain AWS cloud environments supporting enterprise/SaaS applications
• Participate in application and cloud architecture design and implementation
• Manage production, staging, development, testing, and other application environments within AWS
• Design cloud architectures that support scalability, availability, security, performance, and reliability
• Implement and maintain AWS Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines and DevOps processes
• Implement and manage application user authentication and authorization methods
• Design and maintain databases, data models, queries, and supporting scripts
• Identify and implement application and infrastructure modifications necessary to meet FedRAMP and other applicable security and compliance requirements
• Implement and maintain AWS account, application-level, compliance, and tenant monitoring
• Implement and manage AWS identity, access controls, roles, policies, and permissions following least-privilege principles
• Implement and maintain cloud infrastructure monitoring, logging, metrics, alerting, and operational dashboards
• Monitor cloud environments for availability, performance, security, capacity, and cost
• Troubleshoot and resolve cloud infrastructure, networking, deployment, configuration, and availability issues
• Implement backup, recovery, resiliency, and disaster recovery capabilities
• Design and implement automated tenant management and provisioning capabilities
• Support both AWS Commercial and AWS GovCloud environments
• Collaborate with technical and business stakeholders to identify requirements, resolve technical issues, and recommend improvements

Necessary Skills and Knowledge

• Strong experience designing, implementing, and managing production AWS environments.
• Experience supporting cloud-hosted enterprise and/or SaaS applications
• Experience designing and managing secure, scalable, highly available AWS architectures
• Experience with containerized application environments and cloud deployment architectures
• Experience implementing cloud security, identity and access management, monitoring, logging, and alerting
• Experience with CI/CD and automated deployment processes
• Experience supporting cloud environments subject to security and compliance requirements

Minimum Qualifications

• Possess at least 7 years of professional IT, cloud engineering, infrastructure, and DevOps experience
• Possess a Bachelor's degree
• Possess the ability to pass and maintain eligibility for a Public Trust investigation, including United States citizenship
• Possess experience with the following:
  • Technologies: API Management
  • AWS Technologies: ECS, Application Load Balancers, Lambda Functions, CDK, IAM, Secrets Manager, CloudWatch, RDS, Simple Notification Service (SNS), CloudFront
  • Platforms: AWS, Docker Containers
  • Databases: MySQL, NoSQL
  • Tools: Git, CI/CD, Swagger/OpenAPI, JUnit

Preferred Qualifications

• Possess experience with the following:
  • Programming Languages: Node.js
  • AWS Technologies: AWS GovCloud, CloudFormation, Simple Email Service (SES), Cognito, API Gateway, Security Hub, GuardDuty, AWS Step Functions
  • Observability: distributed tracing (X-Ray or OpenTelemetry)
  • Databases: Redis, DynamoDB
  • Compliance & Security: FedRAMP, ATO

NOTE: This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities or qualifications associated with the job. It is intended to describe the general nature and work responsibilities of the position. This job description and the duties of this position are subject to change, modification and addition as deemed necessary by the Company.

Goldschmitt and Associates offers the following benefits:

• 401(k) with immediate vesting
• Paid Federal Holidays
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Medical Insurance, including Vision and Dental Insurance
• Employer-Paid Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
• Employer Paid Life Insurance
• Supplemental Life Insurance
• FSA/HSA Programs
• Commuter Benefits Program
• Adoption Assistance Program
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Caregiver Support Program
• Health Advocacy Program
• Financial Wellbeing Support

Goldschmitt and Associates is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.