Cloud Infrastructure Architect

Pay would be 60- 65 on W2 and 5 to you. I need a solid linkedin profile as well showing their location is in Greenville with a picture as well. Thank you!Our client in Greenville, SC has a contract opportunity for a Cloud Infrastructure Architect who will be responsible for developing leading edge cloud architectures and technologies to support client and local DevOps product teams. Identifies emerging technologies with cloud providers (AWS, Azure) in order to build cloud Infrastructure as Code solutions with availability reaching 99.999% uptime. All solutions will be properly secure and reliably engineered. Provides monitoring and logging of applications/infrastructure.Location onsite and must be local to: Greenville, SCMust be at least 2 days a week onsite (this is the current policy and this is subject to change)5% travel Position Responsibilities/Accountabilities:Develop and maintain Cloud architectures for product teamsCreate and develop Kubernetes architecture and tools for product teams and as platformsEvaluate and implement Kubernetes managed solutions from vendors (EKS, AKS)Develop cluster creation/maintenance scripts (Infrastructure as code, Terraform, etc..)Utilize version control of the Infrastructure as Code with strong understanding of branching and mergingstrategies (Bitbucket)Deploy CI/CD pipeline utilization (Jenkins) for the creation of clustersEnforce user management and role management (AWS, Azure) following Group standardsPerform and create cluster monitoring and infrastructure health reporting (Prometheus, Grafana)Provide operational expertise to maintain Cloud and Kubernetes infrastructure (technical and budgetary)Develop network controls (ingress/egress for internet/intranet access)Maintain cluster security (key management, Vault)Develop highly available, scalable clusters (scale out, scale up, multiple AZs)Support cloud based databases (CockRoach) and message queue solutions (RabbitMQ)Develop logging/monitoring solutions for applications and infrastructure (Splunk)As a Knowledge expert, share information and vision via documentation and training of othersInteract with internal customers and development team to gather and define requirements and documentarchitecture and approachWork on several development initiatives concurrently and provide subject matter expertise on implementations and product customizationDefine the visualization and realization of future technologies, which will support the complete process fromdevelopment of concepts and vision to full production ready solutions, which can be integrated rapidly into the automotive environmentServe as internal consultant to developers and engineers as needed, providing assistance in all phases of product life-cycle development Education:BA/BS Degree in Business, Computer Science or Electrical Engineering preferred or the equivalent of 4 years professional IT related experience. MS degree (preferred).AWS/Azure cloud provider training/certifications (preferred) Experience:5+ years of technical experience in Information Technology to include 2+ years of experience delivering Cloud Architectures (including deployments and operations) Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:3-5 years' experience: Cloud architectures (AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, etc....)3-5 years' experience: Solution architect3-5 years' experience: Operating systems administration and/or lead Developer in a microservice basedproduct team3-5 years' experience: Developer of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, YAML, shell scripts)1-3 years' experience: Database Administration; SAP Basis Administration;3-5 years' experience: Experience with container-based deployments using Docker, working with Dockerimages, Docker Hub and Docker registries3-5 years' experience: At least one scripting language (Python, bash/korne shell, etc....)1-3 years' experience: Agile team processes and work environments1-3 years' experience: Interface with REST Web Services and JSON/XML sufficient to support microservice developers