What are the responsibilities and job description for the AWS Solutions Architect position at iQuest Solutions Corp?
Role: AWS Solutions Architect
Location: Onsite (Plano, TX)
W2 POSITION
Responsibilities
- Design and implement scalable, highly available, and secure solutions on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
- Architect cloud infrastructure using services such as EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, RDS, Lambda, ECS/EKS, CloudFront, Route 53, CloudWatch, and API Gateway.
- Develop cloud migration strategies for on-premises applications and infrastructure.
- Create architecture diagrams, technical documentation, and solution designs.
- Apply AWS Well-Architected Framework principles across security, reliability, performance, cost optimization, and operational excellence.
- Collaborate with developers, DevOps engineers, security teams, and business stakeholders.
- Design disaster-recovery, backup, high-availability, and business-continuity solutions.
- Implement Infrastructure as Code using tools such as Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or CDK.
- Support CI/CD, containerization, monitoring, logging, and automation.
- Identify opportunities for cloud cost optimization and performance improvement.
- Troubleshoot complex AWS infrastructure and application issues.
Required Skills
- Strong knowledge of AWS cloud architecture and core AWS services.
- Experience with networking concepts: VPC, subnets, routing, NAT, load balancers, VPN, and DNS.
- Knowledge of security and identity management using IAM, KMS, security groups, and encryption.
- Experience with databases, storage, compute, containers, and serverless architectures.
- Understanding of Linux/Windows, networking, APIs, microservices, and distributed systems.
- Familiarity with Terraform/CloudFormation and CI/CD tools.
- Knowledge of monitoring and observability using CloudWatch and related tools.
- Strong communication, documentation, and problem-solving skills.