[Hiring] AWS Architect @ASCENDING

Apr 08, 2025 - ASCENDING is hiring a remote AWS Architect. 💸 Salary: unspecified. 📍Location: USA.

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Role Description

This role involves architecting, developing, and maintaining our client's cloud environment in both the commercial and government AWS cloud.

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

Qualifications

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 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

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, Math, Physics (preferred)
Master's Degree with coursework focused on advanced algorithms, mathematics in computing, data structures or related field (preferred)
Expert knowledge of deploying Production grade applications in AWS (preferred)
Demonstrate passion about infrastructure automation (preferred)
Ability to prioritize work in a fast-paced environment (preferred)

Company Description

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AWS Architect @ASCENDING

Software Development

Salary 💸 unspecified	Remote Location USA
Job Type full-time	Posted Apr 08, 2025

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‼	Beware of scams! When applying for jobs, you should NEVER have to pay anything. Learn more.