AWS architect
Job Location:
Lake Forest, CA - USA
Hourly Salary:
USD 16 - 64
Posted:
22 October 2026 (2 days ago)
Application Deadline:
19 January 2027
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Our Client an IT Services and Consultant company is looking for an AWS architect for their Lake Forest CA location.
Responsibilities:
- Collaborative Leadership: Partner directly with COI and execution teams to identify challenges and opportunities for maturing our cloud capabilities. This is a role of influence not authority.
- Research & Prototyping: Lead research into emerging technologies and architectural patterns. An example is Prototype and validate solutions that enhance our use of Kubernetes and AKS on Azure focusing on:
- Workload Balancing & Efficiency: Develop advanced strategies for intelligent workload scheduling auto-scaling and resource optimization.
- Cost Management: Architect and prove out cost-control models that allow the platform to scale efficiently without compromising performance.
- Reliability & High Availability: Design and validate architectural patterns that ensure system resilience fault tolerance and seamless disaster recovery.
- System-Level Validation: Work with system test teams to design and implement experiments that validate the interaction between major system components under stress. Your focus will be on creating scenarios that simulate real-world customer use cases to uncover systemic issues before they reach production.
- Knowledge Transfer and Enablement: Act as a catalyst for skill growth by demonstrating the art of the possible. Through proofs-of-concept and close collaboration you will provide the technical credibility and motivation necessary for teams to learn grow and adopt new operational paradigms.
Requirements:
- Expert-Level Kubernetes: Deep hands-on knowledge of Kubernetes architecture including the control plane scheduling service mesh network policies and resource management.
- Azure - AKS Expertise:
- AWS EKS Expertise:
- Proven expertise in designing and managing complex scalable solutions on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and AWS EKS. Strong command of the broader Azure and AWS ecosystems.
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Proficiency with tools like Terraform or Bicep for automating the provisioning and management of complex cloud topologies.
- CI/CD and GitOps: Strong background in building and optimizing CI/CD pipelines and implementing GitOps principles for automated and reliable application delivery.
- Observability: In-depth knowledge of modern observability stacks including logging metrics and tracing (e.g. Prometheus Grafana Azure Monitor Open telemetry).
- Distributed Systems Architecture: A fundamental understanding of the principles and trade-offs involved in designing and operating large-scale distributed systems.
- Years of Experience: 10.00 Years of Experience
Why Should You Apply
- Health Benefits
- Referral Program
- Excellent growth and advancement opportunities
Required Experience:
Staff IC
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