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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. 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 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 Build frameworks that test the performance and resiliency of our platform services/tools Automate alerts for metrics on performance, cost, vulnerabilities, risk, compliance violations 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. Experience with Kubernetes deployment tools like Helm, ArgoCD, Flux Strong awareness of networking and internet protocols Experience supporting infrastructure in production cloud environments 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 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 Employment type Full-time

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