Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. TEKFORTUNE INC is a fast-growing consulting firm specialized in staffing services for leading organizations. They are seeking a Senior Cloud Architect/Lead Engineer to provide architecture leadership with hands-on delivery, focusing on cloud environment validation and security coordination.
Responsibilities
- Lead architecture and production-readiness validation for staging/prod: ECS/Fargate design and right-sizing, autoscaling, resilience patterns (circuit-breaker / rate-limiting), and the API Gateway decision
- Work hands-on on Terraform/IaC hardening (remote state → DynamoDB locking, decompose state files to limit blast radius, modularization, standards/tags) and on observability (OpenTelemetry → ELK/Kibana, CloudWatch)
- Own IAM least-privilege and security guardrails / policy-as-code baseline; coordinate VPC/subnet/Transit Gateway/ALB-NLB and DNS needs with the central Cloud team and align to the landing zone
- Partner with the fractional database SME and the client's external database firm on Aurora, DMS/CDC validation, and the DB2/SQL Server → PostgreSQL consolidation direction
- Contribute to DR design (AWS DRS / ca-west-1, RTO/RPO); document and transfer knowledge to the client team
Skills
- 7+ years AWS; proven cloud/solutions architecture across compute (ECS/Fargate), networking and data; able to validate designs for scale and resilience
- Hands-on Terraform (state, modules, remote backends) and observability (OpenTelemetry, ELK/Kibana, CloudWatch)
- Strong IAM/security (least-privilege, guardrails, KMS); working knowledge of VPC/TGW/ALB-NLB sufficient to coordinate with a central Cloud team
- Aurora PostgreSQL / DMS familiarity to partner with the DB SME
- AWS certification (Solutions Architect Professional preferred)
- Spring Boot / microservices context a plus
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