[Hiring] Systems Engineer and Applications Architect @AquaPhoenix Scientific LLC

Role Description

AquaPhoenix is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Systems Engineer and Applications Architect to join our dynamic team. This is a remote position with standard business hours and some flexibility to meet the needs of the team and customers.

• Lead the design, configuration, implementation, automation, and troubleshooting of the Company’s enterprise cloud architecture built on AWS.
• Architect secure, fault-tolerant, and scalable cloud infrastructure, including VPCs, networking, and storage.
• Collaborate with the planning, implementation, and support of enterprise infrastructure.
• Implement security controls (IAM, KMS, encryption, RBAC) and ensure adherence to standards (SOC2, GDPR), technical roadmaps, and best practices.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend improvements to existing systems.
• Work with software development, security, infrastructure, and business teams to deliver integrated solutions.
• Design APIs, integration frameworks, and middleware solutions as required.
• Implement automation using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation for automated provisioning.
• Monitor system performance and optimize application availability, reliability, and scalability.
• Perform capacity planning, disaster recovery planning, and business continuity initiatives.
• Ensure compliance with security standards, governance policies, and regulatory requirements.
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure and application issues.
• Lead technical reviews, architecture governance, and design documentation.
• Mentor and provide technical leadership across project teams.
• Participate in project planning, budgeting, and vendor evaluations.
• Optimize cloud and infrastructure performance and costs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 10–15 years of experience in Systems Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering. Postgraduate coursework is desirable but not required.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without current or future employer-sponsored visa sponsorship.
• Hands-on experience operating at a Senior, Staff, or Principal Engineer level.
• Excellent troubleshooting and analytical skills.
• Strong communication and collaboration abilities.
• Excellent analytical, decision-making, problem-solving, team, and time management skills.
• Ability to utilize judgment in decision-making processes related to job tasks.
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills to technical and non-technical audiences of various levels in the organization.
• Ability to persuade and influence others with a non-authoritative presence.

Requirements

• 5+ years of hands-on AWS Cloud Platform experience with deep working knowledge of programs, software, and tools such as:
• Infrastructure: EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, EKS, ECS, Lambda, CloudFormation, Route 53, CloudWatch, Auto Scaling, ELB/ALB/NLB
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Terraform, AWS CloudFormation
• Automation: Python, Bash, PowerShell
• Containers: Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon EKS
• CI/CD: Jenkins, GitHub Actions
• Monitoring: CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Splunk, Datadog
• Security: IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager, Security Hub, GuardDuty, AWS Config

Benefits

• Great work environment
• Competitive pay
• Bonus opportunities
• Career growth
• Exceptional benefits including health, dental, vision, 401(k), STD/LTD, and generous paid time off