What are the responsibilities and job description for the AWS Cloud Architect position at Ztek Consulting?
Job Overview
We are seeking an experienced AWS Cloud Architect with strong expertise in Amazon EKS, Kubernetes, AWS networking, security, and Infrastructure as Code. The candidate will design and manage scalable, secure, and highly available cloud-native environments.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design and manage Amazon EKS clusters using EC2, Fargate, Karpenter/EKS Auto Mode, and multi-AZ architecture.
- Implement AWS networking using VPC, VPC CNI, ALB, AWS Load Balancer Controller, and service mesh technologies such as Istio/App Mesh.
- Implement enterprise security using IAM, EKS Pod Identity/IRSA, NetworkPolicies, Security Groups, and ECR.
- Establish observability using CloudWatch, Container Insights, Fluent Bit, OpenTelemetry/AWS X-Ray.
- Design microservices architectures using DynamoDB, Aurora, SQS, and SNS.
- Automate infrastructure using Terraform or AWS CDK.
- Implement GitOps using Argo CD and Helm.
- Ensure high availability, scalability, security, performance, and resiliency across AWS environments.