Cloud Architect

Immediate need for a talented Cloud Architect. This is a 12+ Months Contract opportunity with long-term potential and is located in Atlanta, GA. Please review the job description below and contact me ASAP if you are interested.

Job ID: 26-03969

Pay Range: $59-$69/hour.  Employee benefits include, but are not limited to, health insurance (medical, dental, vision), 401(k) plan, and paid sick leave (depending on work location).
 
Key Responsibilities:

• The Senior Cloud Architect performs technical planning, architecture development and modification of specifications for cloud computing environments.
• Develops specifications for new IT cloud computing products and service offerings.
• Assesses the compatibility and integration of products/services proposed as standards in order to ensure an integrated architecture across interdependent technologies.
• Begins to influence department's strategy.
• Makes decisions on moderately complex to complex issues regarding technical approach for project components, and work is performed without direction.
• Exercises considerable latitude in determining objectives and approaches to assignments.
• This role will be responsible for following security architecture guidelines and collaborate with cloud security teams and establish cloud-based architecture (Iaas/PaaS/SaaS)
• Will report to the Associate Director, Technology Solutions, IT - Business Data Analytics

Key Requirements and Technology Experience:

• AWS services (EC2, VPC, Lambda, ECS/EKS, RDS/Aurora, S3, KMS, CloudWatch, IAM, CloudTrail)
• Standardized VPC patterns Client Cloud Landing Zone (CLZ)
• Enterprise IAM
• cross account access patterns
• DevOps tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, GitHub, CI/CD pipelines)
• 7+ years of IT experience, with at least 4 years specializing in AWS architecture or cloud engineering.
• Strong knowledge of core AWS services (EC2, VPC, Lambda, ECS/EKS, RDS/Aurora, S3, KMS, CloudWatch, IAM, CloudTrail).
• Handson experience designing and implementing AWS solutions using enterprise patterns.
• Proficiency with IaC and DevOps tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, GitHub, CI/CD pipelines).
• Deep understanding of cloud security concepts and enterprise governance models.
• Experience in hybrid-cloud or multi-account AWS environments.
• AWS certification (Solutions Architect – Professional or equivalent) strongly preferred.
• Architecture & Design Design cloud solutions using Clientapproved AWS architecture patterns, including: Standardized VPC patterns Client Cloud Landing Zone (CLZ)–aligned network and security topologies Serverless and container reference architectures Approved data platform integration patterns (e.g., S3, Lambda, Glue, Redshift, API Gateway)
• Enterprise IAM and crossaccount access patterns Create highlevel and detailed solution architectures aligned with enterprise standards, and cloud governance.

Our client is a leading Airlines organization and we are currently interviewing to fill this and other similar contract positions. If you are interested in this position, please apply online for immediate consideration.
 
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