AWS Lead / Cloud Architect
Job Overview
Job ID: J51898
Location: Raritan, NJ
Duration: 12 Months + Extension
Hourly Rate: Depending on Experience (DOE)
Work Authorization: US Citizen, Green Card, OPT-EAD, CPT, H-1B, H4-EAD, L2-EAD, GC-EAD
Client: To Be Discussed Later
Employment Type: W-2, 1099, C2C
Key Responsibilities
- Design and implement end-to-end cloud architectures leveraging AWS services (compute, storage, networking, and serverless).
- Lead cloud migration and modernization projects — from assessment to deployment.
- Define architecture blueprints, landing zones, and reference models for application onboarding.
- Ensure compliance with security, IAM, and governance standards across AWS accounts and workloads.
- Optimize infrastructure for performance, scalability, and cost efficiency using best practices.
- Work closely with developers, DevOps, and product teams to design microservices and event-driven architectures.
- Establish and enforce CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) standards (Terraform / CloudFormation).
Core AWS Services
- EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda, API Gateway, S3, CloudFront, RDS, DynamoDB, SNS/SQS, Step Functions, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, IAM, KMS, Opensearch, Kafka and Secrets Manager.
Architecture & Design
- Microservices and serverless architectures
- Event-driven and asynchronous systems
- High-availability and disaster recovery (multi-AZ / multi-region)
- Networking (VPC design, Transit Gateway, Route 53, VPN, Direct Connect)
DevOps / Automation
- IaC using Terraform, CloudFormation, or CDK
- CI/CD using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or AWS CodePipeline
- Containerization and orchestration (Docker, ECS, EKS, Fargate)
- Miscellaneous tools and technologies (e.g., Helm, Argo CD, etc.)
Miscellaneous
- Miscellaneous tools and technologies (e.g., Helm, Argo CD, etc.)
- Miscellaneous tools and technologies (e.g., Helm, Argo CD, etc.)
- Miscellaneous tools and technologies (e.g., Helm, Argo CD, etc.)
Security & Governance
- IAM design, policies, and role-based access control
- AWS Organizations, Control Tower, and Security Hub
- Compliance (ISO, SOC2, GDPR) awareness
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