What are the responsibilities and job description for the AWS Infrastructure architect --KUMDC5784519 position at Compunnel Inc.?
Title AWS Infrastructure architect
Duration 05/18/2026 - 06/30/2026
Interview Mode In Person Interview
Location Des Moines, IA 50309 – Onsite
THIS IS AN ONSITE POSITION
US CITIZENS ONLY
- The IT Team is seeking a candidate for a critical cloud/platform/systems specialist to Support senior resources.
- Expectations include Leading infrastructure initiatives to modernize IT infrastructure and operations to enhance efficiency, scalability, and reliability across hybrid cloud environments.
- This role supports enterprise modernization goals by providing support for modern approaches to hybrid-cloud administrative and engineering practices to eliminate expensive and inefficient legacy solutions, while improving operational efficiency, reducing manual intervention, and enabling scalable infrastructure solutions.
- 5 or more years of experience required in the following areas:
- Designs, maintains, and optimizes hybrid platforms that bridge on‑premises infrastructure with AWS cloud services, aligning with the shift toward cloud‑centric operations:
- - Designing and administering AWS environments (EC2, VPC, IAM, S3) to support enterprise workloads.
- - Creating hybrid workload patterns where identity, authentication, and application services function seamlessly across cloud and on‑premises systems.
- - Migrating legacy systems to AWS, including developing modernization roadmaps and workload readiness assessments.
- - Documenting system architectures and producing AWS architecture diagrams showing network topology, dependencies, and service interactions.
- Provides senior‑tier support for issues escalated from Service Desk, Applications, Networking, or automation teams:
- - Diagnosing complex AWS identity, network, or compute issues affecting dependent applications.
- - Documenting troubleshooting workflows, root causes, and long‑term mitigation strategies.
- - Guiding teams through hybrid dependency failures such as directory sync disruptions, routing conflicts, or misconfigured IAM policies.
- Ensures platform resilience by monitoring, optimizing, and maintaining cloud and on‑prem compute, storage, networking, and identity components:
- - Eliminate single points of failure in designs patterns
- - Provide backup, recovery, and DR to meet all RTO/RPO requirements.
- - Implementing performance dashboards covering compute utilization, storage I/O, and network throughput across AWS and on‑prem.
- - Conducting root‑cause analysis for performance issues and documenting remediation steps.
- - Identifying cost optimization opportunities through instance rightsizing, storage tier adjustments, and lifecycle automation.
- - Maintaining architecture diagrams, standards, IaC manifests, and operational procedures in version‑controlled environments.
- - Preparing change impact statements for major infrastructure modifications.
- - Creating release documentation for platform updates promoted through CI/CD pipelines. Ensuring consistency across platform standards, enforcement rules, and automation artifacts.
- Works closely with automation specialist and other team members to ensure infrastructure deployments follow consistent, automated, and auditable patterns:
- - Defining IaC patterns and collaborating on Terraform module designs.
- - Documenting provisioning workflows, configuration standards, and parameter usage for automated deployments.
- - Supporting CI/CD infrastructure pipelines that promote test, staging, and production environments through automated checks.
- - Collaborate with engineering and application teams to optimize workloads for hybrid cloud environments.
- - Provide guidance on migration strategies, performance tuning, and cost optimization for hybrid-cloud deployments.
- Maintain comprehensive documentation for hybrid cloud architecture, operational procedures, and automation workflows. Ensure documentation supports knowledge transfer and compliance audits.
- Supports organizational security and compliance goals by implementing and documenting platform controls across cloud and on‑prem environments. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- - Enforcing AWS guardrails such as encryption, MFA, IAM role boundaries, and network segmentation.
- - Producing audit evidence packages (configuration exports, pipeline logs, screenshots).
- - Documenting platform hardening guidelines for compute, identity, and storage systems.
- - Creating policy interpretation guides to clarify required platform configurations for other technical teams.
- - Writing operational guides, onboarding materials, and “how‑to” documentation for AWS and hybrid operations.
- - Delivering platform standards, architecture reference materials, and annotated diagrams explaining system interactions.
- - Producing executive‑level briefings summarizing modernization progress and platform initiatives.
Skills:
Skill
Required / Desired
Amount
Candidate Experience
US CITIZEN
Required
7
- Designing and administering AWS environments (EC2, VPC, IAM, S3) to support enterprise workloads.
Required
5
- Creating hybrid workload patterns where identity, authentication, and application services function seamlessly across cloud and on premises systems.
Required
5
- Migrating legacy systems to AWS, including developing modernization roadmaps and workload readiness assessments.
Required
5
- Documenting system architectures and producing AWS architecture diagrams showing network topology, dependencies, and service interactions.
Required
5
- Diagnosing complex AWS identity, network, or compute issues affecting dependent applications.
Required
5
- Guiding teams through hybrid dependency failures such as directory sync disruptions, routing conflicts, or misconfigured IAM policies.
Required
5
- Documenting troubleshooting workflows, root causes, and long term mitigation strategies.
Required
5
- Eliminate single points of failure in designs patterns
Required
5
- Provide backup, recovery, and DR to meet all RTO/RPO requirements.
Required
5
- Implementing performance dashboards covering compute utilization, storage I/O, and network throughput across AWS and on prem.
Required
5
- Conducting root cause analysis for performance issues and documenting remediation steps.
Required
5
- Identifying cost optimization opportunities through instance rightsizing, storage tier adjustments, and lifecycle automation.
Required
5
- Maintaining architecture diagrams, standards, IaC manifests, and operational procedures in version-controlled environments.
Required
5
- Preparing change impact statements for major infrastructure modifications.
Required
5
- Creating release documentation for platform updates promoted through CI/CD pipelines. Ensuring consistency across platform standards, enforcement
Required
5
rules, and automation artifacts.
Required
- Defining IaC patterns and collaborating on Terraform module designs.
Required
5
- Documenting provisioning workflows, configuration standards, and parameter usage for automated deployments.
Required
5
- Supporting CI/CD infrastructure pipelines that promote test, staging, and production environments through automated checks.
Required
5
- Collaborate with engineering and application teams to optimize workloads for hybrid cloud environments.
Required
5
- Provide guidance on migration strategies, performance tuning, and cost optimization for hybrid-cloud deployments.
Required
5
- Enforcing AWS guardrails such as encryption, MFA, IAM role boundaries, and network segmentation.
Required
5
- Producing audit evidence packages (configuration exports, pipeline logs, screenshots).
Required
5
- Documenting platform hardening guidelines for compute, identity, and storage systems.
Required
5
- Creating policy interpretation guides to clarify required platform configurations for other technical teams.
Required
5
- Writing operational guides, onboarding materials, and “how to” documentation for AWS and hybrid operations.
Required
5
- Delivering platform standards, architecture reference materials, and annotated diagrams explaining system interactions.
Required
5
- Delivering platform standards, architecture reference materials, and annotated diagrams explaining system interactions.
Required
5