What are the responsibilities and job description for the Cloud Architect position at Smart IT Frame LLC?
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My name is Kathiresan, and I'm with Smart IT Frame LLC.
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Role: AWS Cloud Architect
Location: Tarrytown, NY / Sleepy Hollow, NY (Onsite)
Type: Contract
Job Description:
Serve as the primary technical leader and client-facing representative for the design, build, and delivery of the Enterprise Kubernetes Platform (EKP), Container as a Service (CaaS) framework, and Backup/Disaster Recovery (DR) in a multi-cloud environment (AWS,GCP&Azure). This role covers hands-on technical delivery, solution governance, and project orchestration
Core Responsibilities
- End-to-End Delivery Participation: Work on all phases — Discovery & Planning, Design, Build, Test, Handover.
- Provision and configure Kubernetes clusters (EKS, GKE, AKS) and register to Anthos or approved alternatives.
- Implement multi-cloud governance: RBAC, NetworkPolicies, Quotas, image policy, drift detection.
- Build GitOps-based onboarding templates (Helm/Kustomize) and integrate with CI/CD pipelines.
- Deploy and configure observability stack (Prometheus, Grafana) and FinOps dashboards.
- Implement Velero for Kubernetes backup/restore, AWS Backup for RDS/EFS, and cross-cloud transfers to GCP.
- Configure AWS DMS CDC replication for DR scenarios.
- Maintain technical documentation and contribute to knowledge transfer sessions.
Required Skills & Experience
- 10 years in Cloud/Kubernetes platform engineering, with leadership in multi-cloud solutions.
- Proven track record of end-to-end Kubernetes platform builds across AWS,GCP and Azure.
- Hands-on with Anthos, Rancher, or open-source governance frameworks.
- Strong GitOps (ArgoCD/Flux), security policy management (OPA Gatekeeper/Kyverno).
- Expertise in multi-cloud backup/DR, Velero, AWS Backup, GCS Storage Transfer, AWS DMS.
