Senior AWS Cloud Architect (HYBRID PART TIME CONTRACT- 6 months)

This Senior AWS Cloud Architect position is a part time contract for 6 months governed by contractors policies and option to receive contractors benefits.

Brief Job Overview:

This is a hands-on senior-level non-supervisory individual contributor position. The incumbent will review existing cloud architecture designs develop new architectures define industry-aligned standards and contribute to cost optimization and system performance improvements. They will enhance our cloud architectures and DevOps delivery pipelines to support critical applications including our subscription-based online publications (Nabu) our single sign-on suite (AccessPoint) and other key systems. The role involves close collaboration with enterprise architects software engineers systems engineers SQA engineers and third-party vendors to deliver high-quality efficient and cost-effective solutions within a high-performance hybrid cloud environment. The incumbent will also provide strategic input to automate repetitive tasks implement configuration as code and reduce manual deployment effortsultimately maximizing system quality and minimizing time to market in support of USPs mission.

Summary of Duties:

Design build and maintain secure and cost-effective cloud infrastructure on AWS ensuring high availability and scalability.

Design architect and lead the integration and installation of new technologies with regards to AWS and AWS integrations.

Participate in design discussions with Enterprise architects and other stakeholders review new and existing architectures and provide suggestions.

Make architecture diagrams and share with application teams and enterprise architects.

Review observability data and optimize resources for better performance and lower cost.

Design build and optimize DevOps pipelines including multiple quality gates and quick feedback loops.

Collaborate with application development teams to transform traditional web applications into container-based environments using Docker and AWS Elastic Container Service/Fargate.

Lead the coordination of vendors suppliers and professional services during project engagements and research & development queries.

Act as a Technical Lead on a variety of projects delivering high quality in an agile environment.

Develop KPIs establishing quantitative and qualitative metrics to track pipeline performance.

Keep abreast with the rapid changes in technology and recommend suitable technology improvements that are fit for the business and the IT enterprise.

Monitor mission critical applications and troubleshoot any production issues which will require availability after normal business hours as needed and report on system availability.

Provide complete and accurate documentation as required by USP Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and policies.

Analyze infrastructure costs recommend and implement optimization measures.

Basic Qualifications:

Bachelors degree in Information Technology relevant field or equivalent work experience.

Minimum of five (10) years of hands-on experience designing and building AWS infrastructures and DevOps pipelines.

Expertise in Cloud infrastructure standards design patterns tools observability cost optimization and performance improvement.

Expertise in automating infrastructure with Terraform and other scripts.

Expertise in AWS foundational services plus: ECS/Fargate RDS ElastiCache CodeCommit Batch Lamda.

Expertise in CI/CD and Agile tool sets including Jira Bitbucket Pipelines Jenkins. Strong Linux administration networking skills and database design skills.

Expertise with web application stack including Apache Tomcat PHP RDS (MySQL Aurora) JSON.

Expertise with data analytics platform design data lakes design API heavy applications microservices and so on.

Strong containerization skills using Docker and deployment strategies using Container orchestration services.

Demonstrated expertise maintaining infrastructure as code using Terraform.

Experience with programming/scripting languages including but not limited to: Javascript Python PHP Java HTML CSS JSON. Advanced knowledge of cloud computing and integration methods.

Ability to lead implement and design large scale complexed technology solutions.

Ability to learn new technologies and cross-train and/or be cross-trained as part of IT support.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

None this is an individual contributor role.

Required Experience:

Senior IC