Cloud Architect

Required Skills: AWS CDK TypeScript (Level 400) - Ability to design CDK construct architectures, build shared construct libraries, review constructs for best practices, and guide teams on CDK patterns for multi-account, multi-environment deployments. Must be TypeScript — no Terraform in this environment. AWS Services (Level 400) - Deep expertise in ECS Fargate, ELB, EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, VPC Lattice, SQS, RDS, DynamoDB, Aurora PostgreSQL, Lambda, API Gateway, MSK, EFS, Secrets Manager, KMS. Breadth across 30+ services. ECS Fargate (Level 300) - Deep expertise in task definitions, service architecture, load balancer integration, auto-scaling, service discovery, and migration from VM/PCF to Fargate. This is a strategic compute platform. Multi-Region Architecture (Level 400) - Design of active-active (3-region), active-passive, warm standby, and pilot light patterns. Experience with Aurora Global Database, cross-region MSK, Route 53 failover routing, and DynamoDB Global Tables. EKS (Level 300) - Understanding of EKS architecture with self-managed node groups (not Auto Mode — customer requirement). Ability to advise on OpenShift → EKS migration patterns. Migration Architecture (Level 400) - Experience leading 6R assessments, designing migration patterns at scale, and making defensible rehost-vs-refactor decisions based on application complexity, dependencies, and business value. Messaging Modernization (Level 300) - Architecture patterns for migrating from TIBCO EMS/RV to Amazon MSK. Understanding Kafka topic design, consumer group patterns, and MSK Connect. Documentation (Level 400) - Must be able to clearly write, draw, and organize architectural decision records (ADRs), target-state architecture diagrams, blueprint documentation, and guidance for application teams on a weekly basis. Agile/Jira (Level 200) - On-daily basis you must be able to manage and report own Jira User Stories during the current sprint.