AWS Architect -- W2 Profile -- 100% Remote

Project overview

Job Title: AWS Architect

Project details

Remote – Anywhere in the USA

Key Responsibilities

Required Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

Mandatory Skills

AWS Cloud Architecture, Terraform, AWS Networking, IAM, KMS, EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, CI/CD, GitHub Actions, AWS CLI, Python, Linux, Cloud Security, and Production Support.

Job Facts: Contract W2 | 2 Years | No Travel Required | Able to Sponsor | Remote | Depends on Experience

Skills: Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, WAN, SAML, NLB, Health Care, OIDC, Recovery, Windows PowerShell, Virtual Private Cloud, Capacity Management, Amazon RDS, Amazon Route 53, Cloud Architecture, Computer Networking, Disaster Recovery, Documentation, DevOps, Incident Management, Encryption, DNS, GitHub, Network, Remote Desktop Services, Terraform

Reference: Dice Id: 91171215 | Position Id: 9127759

• Design, build, and manage AWS environments across DEV, TEST, UAT, PROD, and DR.
• Manage AWS accounts, service quotas, resource governance, tagging, cost optimization, and environment readiness.
• Implement VPC and spoke architectures, subnetting, routing, Cloud WAN, VPC endpoints, PrivateLink, DNS, and private connectivity.
• Coordinate integrations with corporate networks, firewalls, Netskope, on-premises systems, and shared AWS networking services.
• Build and support AWS services, including EC2, S3, RDS, MWAA, Lambda, ALB/NLB, Cognito, Route 53, Secrets Manager, and Systems Manager.
• Design IAM roles, trust relationships, permission policies, instance profiles, permission boundaries, and cross-account access.
• Implement KMS encryption, certificate management, secure S3 configurations, secrets management, vulnerability remediation, and compliance controls.
• Develop infrastructure automation using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, AWS CLI, Python, PowerShell, and Bash.
• Build and maintain GitHub-based CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and application deployments.
• Implement automated validation, security scanning, policy checks, approval gates, release controls, and rollback procedures.
• Configure CloudTrail, CloudWatch, VPC Flow Logs, AWS Config, SNS alarms, dashboards, and centralized monitoring.
• Support AWS MWAA/Airflow, RDS PostgreSQL, S3 landing zones, bastion services, and private application access.
• Troubleshoot IAM, KMS, DNS, routing, firewall, endpoint, Linux, EC2, database, and managed-service issues.
• Conduct architecture reviews, capacity planning, disaster recovery planning, cost optimization, and production-readiness assessments.
• Create architecture diagrams, operational procedures, support runbooks, compliance evidence, and recovery documentation.
• Participate in production support, incident response, root-cause analysis, change management, and continuous service improvement.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience in AWS Cloud Engineering, DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Cloud Security.
• Strong knowledge of AWS networking, IAM, KMS, S3, EC2, RDS, Lambda, CloudWatch, Systems Manager, and private service connectivity.
• Experience operating private, regulated, or enterprise AWS environments.
• Strong Infrastructure as Code experience with Terraform.
• Experience with GitHub Actions or comparable CI/CD platforms.
• Proficiency in AWS CLI, Linux, Python, PowerShell, and Bash scripting.
• Understanding of identity federation, SAML/OIDC, secrets management, certificates, encryption, and least-privilege access.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across cloud infrastructure, networking, security, applications, and on-premises environments.
• Experience with monitoring, incident response, change management, and production operations.
• AWS Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, Security, or Advanced Networking certification.
• Experience with AWS MWAA, Airflow, Cognito, RDS PostgreSQL, Network Firewall, Cloud WAN, Netskope, or Cloudera on AWS.
• Experience supporting healthcare, government, or other regulated workloads.
• AWS Cloud modernization and Teradata migration experience.
• Start: flexible
• Remote: remote
• Location: US