What are the responsibilities and job description for the Cloud Infrastructure Architect position at Agelix Consulting LLC?
Cloud Infrastructure Architect Washington, D.C. 20224 18 months
Key Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
- Design and document secure, scalable AWS architectures including multi-account structures, VPCs, and cross-account integrations.
- Architect networking solutions including Transit Gateway, VPC peering, Direct Connect, and Route 53 configurations.
- Design compute and storage solutions leveraging EC2, ECS/EKS, S3, EFS, and other AWS services for EDP workloads.
- Develop and maintain architecture standards, reference architectures, and infrastructure blueprints.
- Ensure infrastructure designs meet resilience, high availability, and disaster recovery requirements.
- Collaborate with security teams to embed security controls into architecture designs from inception.
- Evaluate and recommend AWS services and architectural patterns that align with compliance requirements.
- Support capacity planning, cost optimization, and infrastructure performance reviews.
- Coordinate with government technical leads on architecture approvals and change management.
- Provide technical guidance to cloud engineers on infrastructure implementation best practices.
- 7 years of experience in IT operations and infrastructure management.
- 5 years of hands-on experience with AWS services and infrastructure architecture.
- Deep expertise in AWS networking (VPC, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, Route 53, ALB/NLB).
- Proficiency in AWS compute (EC2, ECS, EKS) and storage (S3, EFS, RDS) services.
- Experience designing multi-account AWS environments with cross-account IAM and resource sharing.
- Familiarity with federal compliance frameworks (FedRAMP, FISMA, NIST) and cloud compliance standards.
- Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation) preferred.
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional certification preferred.
- Experience supporting high-availability, mission-critical government systems preferred.
- Knowledge of tax or financial data platform operations highly preferred.