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AWS Cloud Architect

Eliassen Group
Washington, DC Full Time
POSTED ON 3/29/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/29/2025

Job Details

Description:
Global scientific society headquartered in Washington DC

This is a full-time, permanent opportunity, offering a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package. Qualified applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis.

Rate: $150,000k - $160,000k/year

Responsibilities:
As the AWS Cloud Architect, you will be instrumental in implementing and managing cloud solutions. This role demands a profound understanding of cloud services, especially in Amazon Web Services (AWS), with Google Cloud Platform experience being a substantial advantage. Your expertise will be critical in the development and management of our cloud-based infrastructure, ensuring seamless integration and efficient operation across our extensive range of scientific and scholarly publications, national conferences, and other services.

  • Design, implement, and manage cloud solutions in AWS, with Google Cloud Platform experience as an added advantage.
  • Take ownership of the provisioning of Cloud services and products. Develop and manage infrastructure automation focusing on scalability and security.
  • Work closely with software and AI engineer teams to meet project acceptance criteria, document requirements, support continuous integration and delivery, and mentor junior staff members in cloud technologies and best practices.
  • Experience with Design, develop, and manage dev, test, and production environments, ensuring robust software configuration management throughout the application development lifecycle.
  • Extensive understanding of Cloud Agnostic architectures using Kubernetes and other solutions.
  • Extensive experience in implementing AWS EKS clusters, management and scaling of the clusters with a good knowledge of traffic in/ouflows via subnet configurations and gateways. Linux experience is a plus.
  • Develop and maintain CI/CD pipeline, ensuring smooth deployments and integrations using GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, and containerization strategies.
  • Manage Kubernetes clusters within cloud environments, optimizing for performance and reliability.
  • Utilize Terraform and other Infrastructure as Code to automate and manage cloud infrastructure.
  • Work with serverless computing frameworks on AWS to enhance application scalability and efficiency.
  • Work on Org Units, IAM roles to define efficient and cost-effective operating models for all of publication assets.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams in an Agile setting, to provide architecture support on AWS
  • Integrate and help manage legacy workflows using ArgoCD, Airflow, Jenkins, Bitbucket, and Bamboo pipelines.


Experience Requirements:
Required

10 years:

o 10 years overall hands-on experience in either infrastructure engineering, software engineering, or data engineering including at least 7 years of hands-on experience in architecting and building IT solutions in AWS (Google Cloud Platform is a plus).

o Proven experience in containerization, GitHub Actions, and ArgoCD.

o Experience with approaches and tooling for automated build, delivery, and release of software in Cloud.

5 years:

o Strong communication and leadership skills to effectively collaborate with various teams, lead cloud initiatives, and mentor junior staff.

o Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a keen attention to detail.

o Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, or related field.

o Advanced or professional certifications in Cloud are advantageous.

o Deep technical knowledge and hands-on experience with a broad range of DevOps tools. Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code tools, preferably Terraform. Expertise in tools like Ansible, Jenkins, Git, Maven, Docker, and Kubernetes.

o Proficiency in Terraform.

o Proficiency in Python or Java programming languages.

Preferred:

Expertise in compute clustering in AWS (Google Cloud Platform is a plus).

Expertise in cloud serverless computing infrastructure on AWS (Google Cloud Platform is a plus).

Experience in LLM and its applications preferred but not required.

Team Player: Works well as a member of a group

Team Player: Works well as a member of a group

Functional Expert: Considered a thought leader on a subject

Detail Oriented: Capable of carrying out a given task with all details necessary to get the task done well

Motivations: Ability to Make an Impact: Inspired to perform well by the ability to contribute to the success of a project or the organization

Goal Completion: Inspired to perform well by the completion of tasks

Licenses & Certifications (Preferred)

AWS System Ops Administrator Associate

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate

AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional

Education Requirements:
Bachelors Degree required

Skills, experience, and other compensable factors will be considered when determining pay rate. The pay range provided in this posting reflects a W2 hourly rate; other employment options may be available that may result in pay outside of the provided range.

W2 employees of Eliassen Group who are regularly scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week are eligible for the following benefits: medical (choice of 3 plans), dental, vision, pre-tax accounts, other voluntary benefits including life and disability insurance, 401(k) with match, and sick time if required by law in the worked-in state/locality.
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About Eliassen Group:

Eliassen Group is a leading strategic consulting company for human-powered solutions. For over 30 years, Eliassen has helped thousands of companies reach further and achieve more with their technology solutions, financial, risk & compliance, and advisory solutions, and clinical solutions. With offices from coast to coast and throughout Europe, Eliassen provides a local community presence, balanced with international reach. Eliassen Group strives to positively impact the lives of their employees, clients, consultants, and the communities in which they operate.

Eliassen Group is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.

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