Senior AWS Cloud Architect

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The Boeing Company is currently seeking a Senior AWS Cloud Architect to join the team in Renton WA; Hazelwood MO; Ridley Park PA; or Seattle WA.

This position will provide architecture and hands-on technical leadership for the Capital Assets Performance System (CAPS) on Amazon Web Services (AWS) ensuring the platform is stable secure and operable for enterprise capital planning and high-visibility month-end financial processing.

CAPS is an enterprise finance application used across Business Segments to plan and track capital budgets obligations expenditures depreciation forecasting and asset tagging in alignment with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and the Boeing Accounting Manual.

CAPS is currently in an active stabilization phase following its AWS migration; this role will assess the current-state cloud architecture remediate operability and security gaps and define and execute the next phase of modernization to reduce incidents improve automation and strengthen platform governance. Over time this role has the opportunity to also expand to support other applications in the Finance and Program Management portfolio.

Position Responsibilities:

• Provide AWS architecture and hands-on technical leadership across infrastructure application and integration layers

• Perform hands-on AWS assessment and troubleshooting across core services such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Respiratory Distress Syndrome (RDS) and CloudWatch to identify root causes and systemic gaps

• Lead stabilization and modernization efforts including batch reliability performance tuning monitoring/alerting resiliency and cost optimization

• Establish reliable patching and maintenance operating patterns (including automation where possible) to reduce vulnerability exposure and improve compliance outcomes

• Implement and mature observability practices using AWS-native capabilities (metrics logs alarms dashboards) to reduce time-to-detect and time-to-recover

• Own and evolve infrastructure-as-code environment standards and deployment patterns to improve repeatability and reduce release risk

• Guide engineering teams on AWS-native services reference architectures and operational best practices aligned to Boeing standards

• Manage technical design and change implementation for CAPS integrations with enterprise systems (e.g. Enterprise Accounting System Finance Warehouse Corporate Directory)

• Drive platform governance improvements including cost optimization operational discipline and standardized cloud guardrails

BasicQualifications (Required Skills/Experience):

• Bachelors degree or higher

• 5 years of experience with AWS Cloud Technologies

• 5 years of experience in AWS Services E.g. VPC IAM EC2 Auto-scaling ELB ECR S3 DynamoDB Postgres (RDS) Lambda SQS SNS RDS VPC Route 53 Cloud Front Cloud Watch AWS Config Cloudtrail AWS Developer Tools etc.

• 5 years of experience in cloud security architecture and design with a focus on major cloud platforms (e.g. AWS Azure GCP)

• 5 years of experience with DevOps practices such as Infrastructure as Code (IaC) CI/CD pipelines cloud operations and automated deployments

• Experience with relational databases e.g. PostgreSQL Oracle

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):

• AWS certifications (Solutions Architect Associate/Professional or equivalent)

• Experience stabilizing production platforms after major modernization or cloud migration

Conflict of Interest:

Successful candidates for this job must satisfy the Companys Conflict of Interest (COI) assessment process.

Drug Free Workplace:

Boeing is a Drug Free Workplace where post offer applicants and employees are subject to testing for marijuana cocaine opioids amphetamines PCP and alcohol when criteria is met as outlined in our policies.

Pay & Benefits:

At Boeing we strive to deliver a Total Rewards package that will attract engage and retain the top talent. Elements of the Total Rewards package include competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities.

The Boeing Company also provides eligible employees with an opportunity to enroll in a variety of benefit programs generally including health insurance flexible spending accounts health savings accounts retirement savings plans life and disability insurance programs and a number of programs that provide for both paid and unpaid time away from work.

The specific programs and options available to any given employee may vary depending on eligibility factors such as geographic location date of hire and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.

Pay is based upon candidate experience and qualifications as well as market and business considerations.

Summary pay range: $142800 $207000

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