Cloud Infrastructure Architect

Description

Location: Off-shore / Remote

Time zone: US (8:00AM to 5:00PM)

**Job Type**: Full-Time (40hrs/week)

Duration: 2 Months (with potential for extension)

Number of Resources: 1

Years of Experience: 7+

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Proficient in AWS Control Tower, Organizations, Service Catalog, CloudFormation, CloudTrail, and IAM.
- Familiarity with VPC, EC2, S3, Lambda, and other core AWS services.
- Experience with DevOps practices and tools such as Jenkins, Docker, and Kubernetes.
- Knowledge of AWS security best practices and compliance requirements.
- Experience with security services like AWS Config, GuardDuty, Macie, and Security Hub.
- Experience with continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines
- Design and build solutions to automate security, risk, and compliance on AWS
- Develop high-quality technical artifacts, such as automation tools, reference architectures, and white papers to help our customers, partners, solution architects, and consultants build secure solutions
- Work with our customers to convey cloud computing security, risk, and compliance best practices
- Work with other teams within company to influence and drive adoption of security, risk, and compliance products
- Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences, including executive level stakeholders or clients
- Experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud
- Automated Account Vending & Customizations (Terraform):

- Build Governance Structures: Develop and implement governance structures on top of deployed Control Tower foundational guardrails.
- Automated Account Vending & Customizations: Design and build automated account vending solutions using Terraform, ensuring efficient account creation and customization.
- Service Catalog Development: Create a Service Catalog for repeatable patterns to streamline the deployment of cloud infrastructure.
- Assessment and Remediation: Conduct assessments of account creations and Trusted Cloud (TC) configurations, providing recommendations for improvements and remediation.
- Implement End-to-End Tagging Workflow for Improved Governance and Cost Monitoring:

- End-to-End Tagging Workflow: Design and implement an end-to-end tagging workflow to improve governance and cost monitoring across all cloud resources.
- Policy Enforcement: Develop and enforce policies for tagging standards, ensuring consistent and accurate tagging practices.
- Cost Management: Utilize tagging to enhance cost management, enabling detailed cost tracking and optimization.

**Qualifications**:

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
- Proven experience as a Cloud Infrastructure Architect or similar role.
- Strong expertise in Terraform for infrastructure as code (IaC).
- Extensive experience with AWS Control Tower and foundational guardrails.
- Proficiency in designing and implementing tagging strategies for cloud environments.
- In-depth knowledge of cloud governance, cost management, and optimization practices.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.

**Preferred Qualifications**:

- Relevant certifications in cloud technologies (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer).
- Familiarity with Service Catalog development and automation tools.

Job Information

**Title**: Cloud Infrastructure Architect

**Industry**: IT

**Qualification**: Any Degree

**Required Skills**: AWS Control Tower, Organizations, Service Catalog, CloudFormation, CloudTrail, and IAM

**Working Shift**: US Shift

**City**: Remote

**State**: Remote