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Summary:
Goldschmitt is seeking an AWS Cloud Architect

This position is remote with preference given to candidates who live within a commutable distance to the DMV area.

The anticipated salary for this position is $160,000.00- $180,000.00.

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

Design, develop, implement, and maintain AWS cloud environments supporting enterprise/SaaS applications
Participate in application and cloud architecture design and implementation
Manage production, staging, development, testing, and other application environments within AWS
Design cloud architectures that support scalability, availability, security, performance, and reliability
Implement and maintain AWS Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines and DevOps processes
Implement and manage application user authentication and authorization methods
Design and maintain databases, data models, queries, and supporting scripts
Identify and implement application and infrastructure modifications necessary to meet FedRAMP and other applicable security and compliance requirements
Implement and maintain AWS account, application-level, compliance, and tenant monitoring
Implement and manage AWS identity, access controls, roles, policies, and permissions following least-privilege principles
Implement and maintain cloud infrastructure monitoring, logging, metrics, alerting, and operational dashboards
Monitor cloud environments for availability, performance, security, capacity, and cost
Troubleshoot and resolve cloud infrastructure, networking, deployment, configuration, and availability issues
Implement backup, recovery, resiliency, and disaster recovery capabilities
Design and implement automated tenant management and provisioning capabilities
Support both AWS Commercial and AWS GovCloud environments
Collaborate with technical and business stakeholders to identify requirements, resolve technical issues, and recommend improvements

Necessary Skills and Knowledge:

Strong experience designing, implementing, and managing production AWS environments.
Experience supporting cloud-hosted enterprise and/or SaaS applications
Experience designing and managing secure, scalable, highly available AWS architectures
Experience with containerized application environments and cloud deployment architectures
Experience implementing cloud security, identity and access management, monitoring, logging, and alerting
Experience with CI/CD and automated deployment processes
Experience supporting cloud environments subject to security and compliance requirements

Minimum Qualifications:

Possess at least 7 years of professional IT, cloud engineering, infrastructure, and DevOps experience
Possess a Bachelor's degree
Possess the ability to pass and maintain eligibility for a Public Trust investigation, including United States citizenship
Possess experience with the following:
- Technologies: API Management
- AWS Technologies: ECS, Application Load Balancers, Lambda Functions, CDK, IAM, Secrets Manager, CloudWatch, RDS, Simple Notification Service (SNS), CloudFront
- Platforms: AWS, Docker Containers
- Databases: MySQL, NoSQL
- Tools: Git, CI/CD, Swagger/OpenAPI, JUnit

Preferred Qualifications:

Possess experience with the following:
- Programming Languages: Node.js
- AWS Technologies: AWS GovCloud, CloudFormation, Simple Email Service (SES), Cognito, API Gateway, Security Hub, GuardDuty, AWS Step Functions
- Observability: distributed tracing (X-Ray or OpenTelemetry)
- Databases: Redis, DynamoDB
- Compliance & Security: FedRAMP, ATO

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