AWS Cloud Architect

AWS Cloud Architect

Location: Charlotte, NC (Onsite)

Background Verification: Must be successfully cleared before the start date

Employment Type: W2 Contract

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced AWS Cloud Architect to design, implement, and manage scalable, secure, highly available, and cost-effective cloud solutions on Amazon Web Services (AWS). The ideal candidate will translate business requirements into robust cloud architectures aligned with AWS best practices, security standards, and organizational objectives.

This role focuses on strategic cloud architecture, infrastructure modernization, security, performance optimization, and collaboration with development and DevOps teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Cloud Architecture Design: Translate business requirements into high-level architecture diagrams, network topologies, and multi-tier cloud solutions aligned with the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
• AWS Infrastructure: Design, implement, and manage cloud environments using AWS services, including EC2, VPC, S3, RDS, IAM, and Lambda.
• Cloud Migration and Modernization: Lead the migration of on-premises infrastructure, databases, and applications to AWS. Implement containerization and serverless architectures where appropriate.
• Security and Compliance: Establish identity and access management policies, network security controls, encryption standards, high availability, disaster recovery, and business continuity solutions.
• Cost and Performance Optimization: Monitor cloud resource utilization, optimize AWS spending, right-size infrastructure, and improve system performance.
• Infrastructure as Code: Develop and maintain automated infrastructure provisioning and configuration using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or Ansible.
• DevOps Collaboration: Work closely with DevOps engineers and development teams to support CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and cloud operations.
• Stakeholder Management: Collaborate with business stakeholders, technical teams, and leadership to ensure cloud architecture aligns with business objectives.
• Technical Documentation: Develop and maintain architecture diagrams, design documents, cloud standards, and implementation guidelines.

Required Technical Skills

• AWS Cloud Services: Strong expertise in compute, storage, databases, networking, and security services, including EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, IAM, and Lambda.
• AWS Networking: Hands-on experience with Route 53, AWS Direct Connect, VPN, network routing, and cloud connectivity.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Proficiency in Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or Ansible.
• Containers and Orchestration: Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS).
• DevOps and CI/CD: Familiarity with Git, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or Azure DevOps.
• Operating Systems: Strong foundational knowledge of Linux and Windows administration.
• Cloud Security: Understanding of IAM policies, encryption, firewalls, security best practices, high availability, and disaster recovery.
• Architecture and Design: Ability to create scalable, resilient, secure, and cost-efficient cloud architectures.
• Communication: Strong analytical, problem-solving, documentation, and stakeholder communication skills.

Important Submission Requirements

• The position is 100% onsite in Charlotte, NC .
• Candidates must be able to work on a W2 basis.
• Background verification must be cleared before the candidate can start.
• Candidates should demonstrate strong AWS architecture and cloud infrastructure design experience.