[Hiring] AWS Cloud Architect @Goldschmitt and Associates

Role Description

Goldschmitt is seeking an AWS Cloud Architect. This position is remote with preference given to candidates who live within a commutable distance to the DMV area. The anticipated salary for this position is $160,000.00 - $180,000.00.

• Design, develop, implement, and maintain AWS cloud environments supporting enterprise/SaaS applications
• Participate in application and cloud architecture design and implementation
• Manage production, staging, development, testing, and other application environments within AWS
• Design cloud architectures that support scalability, availability, security, performance, and reliability
• Implement and maintain AWS Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines and DevOps processes
• Implement and manage application user authentication and authorization methods
• Design and maintain databases, data models, queries, and supporting scripts
• Identify and implement application and infrastructure modifications necessary to meet FedRAMP and other applicable security and compliance requirements
• Implement and maintain AWS account, application-level, compliance, and tenant monitoring
• Implement and manage AWS identity, access controls, roles, policies, and permissions following least-privilege principles
• Implement and maintain cloud infrastructure monitoring, logging, metrics, alerting, and operational dashboards
• Monitor cloud environments for availability, performance, security, capacity, and cost
• Troubleshoot and resolve cloud infrastructure, networking, deployment, configuration, and availability issues
• Implement backup, recovery, resiliency, and disaster recovery capabilities
• Design and implement automated tenant management and provisioning capabilities
• Support both AWS Commercial and AWS GovCloud environments
• Collaborate with technical and business stakeholders to identify requirements, resolve technical issues, and recommend improvements

Qualifications

• Strong experience designing, implementing, and managing production AWS environments
• Experience supporting cloud-hosted enterprise and/or SaaS applications
• Experience designing and managing secure, scalable, highly available AWS architectures
• Experience with containerized application environments and cloud deployment architectures
• Experience implementing cloud security, identity and access management, monitoring, logging, and alerting
• Experience with CI/CD and automated deployment processes
• Experience supporting cloud environments subject to security and compliance requirements

Requirements

• Possess at least 7 years of professional IT, cloud engineering, infrastructure, and DevOps experience
• Possess a Bachelor's degree
• Possess the ability to pass and maintain eligibility for a Public Trust investigation, including United States citizenship
• Possess experience with the following:
• Technologies: API Management
• AWS Technologies: ECS, Application Load Balancers, Lambda Functions, CDK, IAM, Secrets Manager, CloudWatch, RDS, Simple Notification Service (SNS), CloudFront
• Platforms: AWS, Docker Containers
• Databases: MySQL, NoSQL
• Tools: Git, CI/CD, Swagger/OpenAPI, JUnit

Preferred Qualifications

• Possess experience with the following:
• Programming Languages: Node.js
• AWS Technologies: AWS GovCloud, CloudFormation, Simple Email Service (SES), Cognito, API Gateway, Security Hub, GuardDuty, AWS Step Functions
• Observability: distributed tracing (X-Ray or OpenTelemetry)
• Databases: Redis, DynamoDB
• Compliance & Security: FedRAMP, ATO

Benefits

• 401(k) with immediate vesting
• Paid Federal Holidays
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Medical Insurance, including Vision and Dental Insurance
• Employer-Paid Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
• Employer Paid Life Insurance
• Supplemental Life Insurance
• FSA/HSA Programs
• Commuter Benefits Program
• Adoption Assistance Program
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Caregiver Support Program
• Health Advocacy Program
• Financial Wellbeing Support