AWS Cloud Architect

15 Feb 2025

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Job Title: AWS Cloud Architect

Work Location: Hybrid in Washington DC area

Clearance Required: Eligible for Public Trust

Cloud Architect with deep technical knowledge and experience in AWS solutions and technologies. Strong understanding of cloud-based application architecture using microservice API’s containerization and serverless technologies using native cloud services.

Responsibilities:
  • Provide an overall Solution Architecture that is scalable, secured and cost effective for a cloud-based Search Engine to search across documents.
  • Must have the ability to provide a firm, clear perspective of cloud solution to business/key stakeholders, and also ensure recommended cloud solutions are secure, resilient, cost-efficient, and managed with operational excellence.
  • Walkthrough the solution details with the development team, engage with them in designing, developing and all aspects of the software development life cycle.
  • Implement Proof of Concept (POC) in alignment to the solution. Time to time explore various POCs to solve the business problems.
  • Perform design reviews, code reviews and code coverage reviews.
  • As needed, contribute to coding/development.
  • Work closely with the customer’s security group from early stages and take the system through the ATO process.
  • Work closely with the Program Manager, key stakeholders, development team and the technical resources from the corporate HQ to ensure the overall success of the program.
  • Familiar with designing and implementing automated DevSecOps architecture and CI/CD pipelines in AWS application for release management of development efforts and on-going production operations.
  • Supporting and contributing to business security requirements, and making sure the overall solution and implementation meets Federal civilian agency security and compliance requirements
  • Provide thought leadership on cloud platform technology use, design, and implementation.
  • Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to relate sophisticated topics in simple and accessible language.
  • Transparent in nature for business updates & communications to share best practices and industry point of view to bring new ideas.
  • Participate in daily standup, refinements, demos and other ceremonies as part of a dynamic Agile Team.

Required Skills/Experience:
  • Bachelor or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or relevant degree is required.
  • 10+ years of Development experience, 5+ years of Solution Architecture experience, and 4+ years of Solution Architecture experience in AWS
  • Experience providing Solution Architecture with other CSPs such as Azure and GCP
  • 5+ years of hands-on experience with AWS services
  • Hands-on experience with Java, JavaScript, Angular, ReactJS, Container/Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Spring Framework, Spring Boot, Web Services (REST and SOAP) and other applicable Tech stack in Java Platform
  • Strong understanding of architectural design patterns and how to apply them in the most practical manner into an overall solution design in AWS Cloud.
  • Experience with Search Solution / AWS Search technologies
  • Design experience with AWS services, Java Tech stack and deployment experience in AWS
  • Experience in providing scalable solutions and experience in performance tuning of applications
  • Experience with Federal civilian agency security requirements including but not limited to FIPS 199, NIST SP 800-53
  • Experience in ATO process
  • Experience in TDD, writing unit tests and guiding teams in TDD, and code coverage
  • Experience in developing DevSecOps CI/CD pipeline in AWS meeting high availability, Performance, security and scalability criteria.
  • Hands-on experience using compute, networking, storage, and database specific AWS services. Specially following AWS PaaS services are must - VPC, subnets, DNS, EC2, API Gateway, Lambda, S3, MSSQL, RDS, Cloud Watch, ELK, EKS, and IAM.
  • Familiarity with cross-platform scripting languages and build tools (Python, Artifactory, Groovy, Maven, MS Build, Nexus, NuGet).
  • Must have familiarity with WebHooks, REST API, JSON, XML, SMTP and SQL Query.
  • Strong understanding of security tools like Sonarqube, Micro Focus Fortify, Nexus Sonatype IQ scan with a focus on automating security and compliance best practices in a DevSecOps CI/CD pipeline.
  • Strong knowledge of API design principles and experience in designing solutions as part of a Services-Oriented-Architecture (SOA), Microservices and event driven architectures for high-availability web applications.
  • Strong understanding of cloud-ready architectures that utilize SaaS and PaaS cloud models.
  • Experience working in an Agile (e.g., Scrum, SAFE frameworks etc.) SDLC model using DevSecOps best practices.
  • Familiarity with OCR and associated frameworks
  • Familiarity with AWS services to search for texts in video and audio files
  • Strong Analytical and Communication skills.
Other relevant details: Candidates local to the DC Metro area are preferred. Times they have to attend in-person meetings at the customer site in the DC Metro area. Disclaimer: i-Link Solutions Inc. provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. We especially invite women, minorities, veterans, and individuals with disabilities to apply. EEO/AA/M/F/Vet/Disability.

  • ID: #49217004
  • State: Virginia Herndon 20170 Herndon USA
  • City: Herndon
  • Salary: Depends on Experience
  • Job type: Permanent
  • Showed: 2023-02-15
  • Deadline: 2023-03-28
  • Category: Et cetera