Cloud Architect
Job Title: Cloud ArchitectLocation: Lansing, MI 48933 (Local candidates strongly preferred) Duration: 6 MonthsWork Type: Hybrid (2 Days/Week Onsite)⚠️ In-person interview required Key ResponsibilitiesAWS Cloud Migration & InfrastructureLead AWS platform configuration for enterprise cloud migration initiativesSupport migration of 30+ applications across: Elastic Beanstalk, Amazon EKS, EC2/Cloud VMConfigure and manage: VPC, IAM , RDS, S3, Secrets Manager, CloudWatchKubernetes & GitOps EngineeringBuild and operate production EKS clustersManage: Helm, kubectl, ALB/NGINX ingress, HPA, Namespace strategiesImplement GitOps deployments using: ArgoCD, FluxDevOps & CI/CD AutomationDesign Azure DevOps YAML pipelines for: EKS deployments, Elastic Beanstalk deployments, EC2 deploymentsImplement: Docker builds, ECR integration, Helm deployments, Automated release pipelinesInfrastructure as CodeBuild reusable IaC solutions using: Terraform (preferred), CloudFormationMaintain versioned infrastructure repositoriesObservability & ReliabilityConfigure: CloudWatch monitoring, Metrics, Dashboards, AlertsSupport production incident troubleshooting and cutover activitiesMust Haves: 9+ years overall IT/Cloud experience5–6+ years hands-on AWS production experience with: Elastic Beanstalk, EKS, EC2, RDS, IAM, VPC, S3, CloudWatch, Secrets Manager3+ years hands-on Kubernetes/EKS experience: Helm, kubectl, Ingress controllers, HPA, Troubleshooting networking/servicesStrong production GitOps experience: ArgoCD or Flux, Multi-environment promotion, Drift management⚠️ ArgoCD / Flux experience is NON-NEGOTIABLEStrong Azure DevOps YAML pipeline experienceStrong Docker & containerization experienceStrong Terraform or CloudFormation experienceLinux administration & shell scriptingGit branching/code review experienceStrong documentation and communication skillsRequired CertificationsAWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional ORAWS DevOps Engineer – ProfessionalPreferred Experience.NET or Java cloud migrationBlue/Green or Canary deploymentsDatadog / Splunk / New RelicService Mesh (Istio/App Mesh)⚠️ Missing AWS + Kubernetes + ArgoCD/Flux + Terraform → RejectionNice to HaveCKA / CKAD certificationHashiCorp VaultAPI gatewaysService mesh technologiesAdvanced observability toolsEnterprise migration programs