Sr. AWS Solutions Architect

Responsibilities

• Develop and deploy AWS-based hosting environments on EKS and meet customer requirements that span multiple AWS services.
• Support cloud migration, implementation, and modernization efforts, providing architectural guidance for AWS-based solutions.
• Troubleshoot application deployments, recreate customer issues, and build proof of concept applications.
• Write and interpret configuration scripts for customer environments to install programs, configure logging, and modify configuration files.
• Apply advanced troubleshooting techniques to provide unique solutions depending on customer use cases.
• Support infrastructure hardening, vulnerability scanning, and remediation efforts following cloud security best practices.
• Provide technical documentation and supporting artifacts for Authorization to Operate (ATO) packages and work closely with compliance teams when supporting regulated cloud environments.
• Research, evaluate, and apply emerging technologies to improve cloud architectures, security, and operational efficiency.
• Mentor and develop team members by sharing technical expertise, promoting knowledge sharing, and fostering continuous learning.

Requirements

• KUBERNETES: Developed and implemented Kubernetes/EKS, ECS, Docker and containerized solution architectures with advanced engineering concepts around security, segmentation, vulnerability and image scanning, and integration with third-party tools like Sysdig Falco, Calico, Service Mesh etc.
• AWS SECURITY AND OPERATIONS: Experience managing full application stacks from the OS up through custom applications, Knowledge of AWS and Cloud Computing concepts (preferred experience with AWS Elastic Beanstalk, AWS CloudFormation or AWS OpsWorks).
• Linux (Ubuntu, CentOS, RedHat) and/or Microsoft Windows Server and associated technologies (Active Directory, Exchange etc.). Understanding of IP Networking (TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, SSL/TLS, etc.). One or more container orchestration management experience (e.g. Docker, OpenShift Kubernetes).
• Troubleshooting skills at multiple levels of complexity. Terraform/ Cloud Formation Expertise using Terraform and Cloud Formation CI/CD ENABLEMENT: Experience with one or more DevOps, Orchestration/Configuration Management and Continuous Integration technology (e.g. Chef, Puppet, Jenkins, Ansible).
• Programming experience with one or more scripting language (e.g. Bash, PowerShell, Ruby, Python, Node.JS). One or more version control platform (e.g. Git, Perforce, SVN, TFVC).

Desired

• Bachelor's Degree preferred.
• Cloud Architecture: 1 year preferred.
• Clearance: Secret Clearance required (can hold Top Secret).