AWS Cloud Architect / DevOps & Security Engineer || W2 Contract Only

Senior AWS Cloud Architect / DevOps & Security Engineer
Remote

W2 Contract Only

Role Summary

We are seeking a Senior AWS Cloud Architect / DevOps & Security Engineer to design, build, secure, automate, and operate enterprise AWS environments supporting Mainframe migration to AWS.

This is a hands-on architecture and engineering role requiring strong expertise in AWS architecture, networking, security, Terraform, CI/CD, automation, and production operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement AWS environments across DEV, TEST, UAT, PROD, and DR.
• Translate business and application requirements into secure, scalable, highly available, resilient, and cost-effective AWS architectures.
• Create architecture/solution designs, diagrams, standards, and technical documentation aligned with AWS Well-Architected principles.
• Design and implement VPCs, subnetting, routing, Cloud WAN, VPC endpoints, PrivateLink, Route 53, ALB/NLB, and hybrid connectivity.
• Build and support EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, MWAA, Cognito, Secrets Manager, and Systems Manager.
• Integrate AWS with corporate networks, firewalls, Netskope, and on-premises environments.
• Design and implement IAM roles, cross-account access, KMS encryption, certificate management, secrets management, and security controls following least-privilege principles, including integration with Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD) for enterprise SSO and identity federation.
• Develop infrastructure using Terraform and automate processes using AWS CLI, Python, PowerShell, and Bash.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, including security scanning, policy validation, approval gates, and rollback procedures.
• Implement monitoring and observability using CloudWatch, CloudTrail, VPC Flow Logs, AWS Config, SNS, and dashboards.
• Troubleshoot complex AWS infrastructure, networking, security, IAM, DNS, Linux, database, and managed-service issues.
• Support production operations, incident response, root-cause analysis, disaster recovery, capacity planning, and cost optimization.
• Provide architecture leadership, technical guidance, mentoring, and support to cloud, DevOps, security, infrastructure, and application teams.

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of AWS cloud architecture, cloud engineering, DevOps, platform engineering, or cloud security experience.
• Strong hands-on experience with enterprise AWS architecture and infrastructure.
• Strong knowledge of VPC, IAM, KMS, S3, EC2, RDS, Lambda, CloudWatch, Route 53, and private connectivity.
• Strong Terraform / Infrastructure as Code experience.
• Experience with GitHub Actions or comparable CI/CD platforms.
• Strong AWS networking, hybrid connectivity, security, IAM, encryption, and secrets-management experience.
• Proficiency with AWS CLI, Linux, Python, PowerShell, and Bash.
• Experience with production operations, monitoring, incident response, and disaster recovery.
• Strong troubleshooting, communication, documentation, and technical leadership skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• AWS Solutions Architect – Professional, DevOps Engineer, Security Specialty, or Advanced Networking certification.
• Experience with AWS Well-Architected Framework and large-scale migrations.
• Experience with MWAA/Airflow, RDS PostgreSQL, Cognito, Network Firewall, Cloud WAN, Netskope, or Cloudera on AWS.
• Experience supporting healthcare, government, or other regulated workloads.