Cloud Architect
Lansing, Michigan, United States of America
Contract
1 day ago
$80 - $85 USD
Key skills
SQLShellBashAWSAzureTerraformKubernetesDockerJenkinsGitHub ActionsGitLab CIEKSHelmArgoCDFluxNGINXCloudFormationEC2S3RDSIAMCloudWatchElastic BeanstalkAzure DevOpsPostgreSQLSQL ServerGitGitHubGitLabGitOpsSource ControlCI/CDCommunication
About this role
- Interview Process: In-person interviews (will likely be held between 5/25-5/29)
- Hybrid: Resource will be working a hybrid schedule. NO REMOTE ONLY OPTION. Will need to be onsite from day 1, two days a week.
Required Qualifications
- 5 6+ years hands-on experience building and operating production workloads on AWS, with deep knowledge of Elastic Beanstalk, EKS, EC2, RDS, VPC, IAM, S3, CloudWatch, and Secrets Manager
- 3+ years hands-on with Kubernetes - production EKS preferred, including Helm, kubectl, ingress (ALB/NGINX), HPA, and troubleshooting pods/services/networking
- Production experience with ArgoCD or Flux - designed app-of-apps structure, managed multi-environment promotion, and resolved GitOps drift in real workloads. This is non-negotiable.
- Strong Azure DevOps Pipelines (YAML) experience - build pipelines, multi-stage release pipelines, variable groups, service connections, and self-hosted/Microsoft-hosted agents. Equivalent strong experience in another major CI/CD tool (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins) is acceptable if Azure DevOps can be picked up quickly
- Solid Docker skills - multi-stage builds, image hardening, ECR
- Infrastructure-as-Code in production: Terraform (preferred) or CloudFormation/CDK
- Database familiarity - comfortable working with DBA teams on RDS (SQL Server and PostgreSQL), connection strings, secrets rotation, and migration cutover
- Linux administration (RHEL/Amazon Linux/Ubuntu) and shell scripting (bash)
- Source control with Git - branching strategies, pull requests, code review discipline
- Strong written communication - must produce clear runbooks, architecture diagrams, and PR descriptions