What are the responsibilities and job description for the AWS Architect position at Georgia IT?
Position: - AWS Architect
Location: - San Deigo CA onsite
Duration: Contract
Rate: DOE
Key Responsibilities
- Conduct deep architecture reviews across AWS services (MSK, ECS, CloudWatch, Glue, S3, EC2, Lambda, Connect, Config, CloudTrail, ELB, SQS, MQ).
- Identify optimization levers: right-sizing, Graviton migration, Spot, Savings Plans, Reserved Instances, lifecycle policies, and Intelligent-Tiering.
- Evaluate non-production environments for shutdown windows, duplication, and shared-services consolidation.
- Assess emerging AWS technologies (Graviton, Outposts, Marketplace) for cost-conscious adoption.
- Produce monthly recommendation reports with quantified savings and implementation roadmaps.
Required Skills
- Expert hands-on AWS across compute, storage, networking, data, and observability.
- Deep knowledge of AWS pricing models, Cost Explorer, Compute Optimizer, Trusted Advisor, and Cost & Usage Report (CUR).
- Containerization (ECS, Fargate, EKS), serverless (Lambda), streaming (MSK, Kinesis), and ETL (Glue).
- AWS Well-Architected Framework reviews with emphasis on the cost and performance pillars.
- Terraform and CloudFormation Infrastructure-as-Code familiarity.
Qualifications & Certifications
- 10 years in cloud engineering or architecture, 6 years on AWS.
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional (required).
- AWS Specialty certification (Data, Security, or Networking) preferred.
Salary : $20 - $80