ASCENDING Inc.
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AWS (Kubernetes) Architect
Long term contract - 2+ years
100% remote in the continental US
Our client is seeking an AWS Architect that will architect, develop, and maintain our client's cloud environment in both the commercial and government AWS cloud. The role will work closely with software engineers, architects, and DevOps engineers to architect and maintain a secure, resilient, and high-performance cloud infrastructure.
Essential Functions Include:
Build, maintain, and operate IaaS and PaaS infrastructure in AWS commercial and government clouds Selecting the appropriate AWS service based on data, compute, database, or security requirements Identifying appropriate use of AWS architectural best practices Work closely with dev teams to identify and measure SLOs, SLAs, and SLIs Act as a strong contributor to development of platform services including architecture, provisioning, configuration, deployment, and support Perform integrations with central logging, metrics dashboards, instrumentation, incident monitoring, and management Build/integrate/administer systems and tools that enable engineering teams to observe their applications in production with autonomy (Dashboards, APMs) Assist with identification and remediation of technical problems at the root cause by continuously implementing automation, self-healing, and real-time monitoring to production systems Maintain and improve operational tooling, frameworks Build frameworks that test the performance and resiliency of our platform services/tools Automate alerts for metrics on performance, cost, vulnerabilities, risk, compliance violations Improve processes and champion automation of any manual items around support Requirements:
3+ years of experience working within a cloud architect role designing and deploying scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant systems on AWS 8+ years of experience working within a cloud engineer/SRE role Strong knowledge of AWS services (ex. VPC, EC2, S3, ECS, CloudFormation, Lambda, EKS, RDS, ELB, Route53, RedShift, Chime, Connect) Expert knowledge and hands-on production experience in Kubernetes (EKS or AKS) cluster setup and management required Experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools like Terraform Experience with Kubernetes deployment tools like Helm, ArgoCD, Flux Strong awareness of networking and internet protocols Understanding of identity and access management (IAM) Experience supporting infrastructure in production cloud environments Knowledge of Encryption (KMS), Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), understanding of OWASP Experience working with RESTful services Experience supporting environments adhering to compliance standards like FedRAMP and NIST (800-171|53) Some experience with monitoring tools (CloudWatch, VPC Flow Logs, Splunk, Dynatrace, Grafana, Prometheus) Familiarity with IDEs and Source Control tools like Azure DevOps, GitHub, or GitLab Preferences:
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, Math, Physics Master's Degree with coursework focused on advanced algorithms, mathematics in computing, data structures, or related field Expert knowledge of deploying production-grade applications in AWS Demonstrate passion about infrastructure automation Ability to prioritize work in a fast-paced environment Thanks for applying! Powered by JazzHR Seniority level
Mid-Senior level Employment type
Full-time Job function
Engineering and Information Technology Industries
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Build, maintain, and operate IaaS and PaaS infrastructure in AWS commercial and government clouds Selecting the appropriate AWS service based on data, compute, database, or security requirements Identifying appropriate use of AWS architectural best practices Work closely with dev teams to identify and measure SLOs, SLAs, and SLIs Act as a strong contributor to development of platform services including architecture, provisioning, configuration, deployment, and support Perform integrations with central logging, metrics dashboards, instrumentation, incident monitoring, and management Build/integrate/administer systems and tools that enable engineering teams to observe their applications in production with autonomy (Dashboards, APMs) Assist with identification and remediation of technical problems at the root cause by continuously implementing automation, self-healing, and real-time monitoring to production systems Maintain and improve operational tooling, frameworks Build frameworks that test the performance and resiliency of our platform services/tools Automate alerts for metrics on performance, cost, vulnerabilities, risk, compliance violations Improve processes and champion automation of any manual items around support Requirements:
3+ years of experience working within a cloud architect role designing and deploying scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant systems on AWS 8+ years of experience working within a cloud engineer/SRE role Strong knowledge of AWS services (ex. VPC, EC2, S3, ECS, CloudFormation, Lambda, EKS, RDS, ELB, Route53, RedShift, Chime, Connect) Expert knowledge and hands-on production experience in Kubernetes (EKS or AKS) cluster setup and management required Experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools like Terraform Experience with Kubernetes deployment tools like Helm, ArgoCD, Flux Strong awareness of networking and internet protocols Understanding of identity and access management (IAM) Experience supporting infrastructure in production cloud environments Knowledge of Encryption (KMS), Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), understanding of OWASP Experience working with RESTful services Experience supporting environments adhering to compliance standards like FedRAMP and NIST (800-171|53) Some experience with monitoring tools (CloudWatch, VPC Flow Logs, Splunk, Dynatrace, Grafana, Prometheus) Familiarity with IDEs and Source Control tools like Azure DevOps, GitHub, or GitLab Preferences:
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, Math, Physics Master's Degree with coursework focused on advanced algorithms, mathematics in computing, data structures, or related field Expert knowledge of deploying production-grade applications in AWS Demonstrate passion about infrastructure automation Ability to prioritize work in a fast-paced environment Thanks for applying! Powered by JazzHR Seniority level
Mid-Senior level Employment type
Full-time Job function
Engineering and Information Technology Industries
Internet Publishing Referrals increase your chances of interviewing at ASCENDING Inc. by 2x
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