Cloud Architect Senior Cloud Migration Architect
Job Location:
Lansing, IL - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Hello
Hope you are doing good.
Job: Cloud Architect - Senior Cloud Migration Architect
Location: Lansing MI - HYBRID
Top Skills & Years of Experience:
- 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
- Solid Docker skills - multi-stage builds image hardening ECR
- Interview Process: In-person interviews
- Duration: 6 months with possible extension
- Hybrid: Resource will be working a hybrid schedule. NO REMOTE ONLY OPTION. Will need to be onsite from day 1 two days a week.
- Local candidates (strongly preferred) or non-local (must be willing to relocate at their own expense from acceptance with no delays & follow the hybrid schedule). Please note both local AND non-local candidates must be available for an in-person interview.
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
Preferred Qualifications:
- AWS certifications: AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional or DevOps Engineer - Professional
- CKA / CKAD (Certified Kubernetes Administrator/Developer)
- Experience and Java applications from on-premises to AWS
- Experience operating COTS products in containerized or cloud environments
- Experience with service mesh (Istio App Mesh) or API gateways
- Exposure to HashiCorp Vault secrets rotation and certificate management
- Familiarity with DataDog New Relic or Splunk in addition to native AWS observability
- Experience with blue/green and canary deployment patterns
Thanks
Srujana
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