AWS Cloud Architect

Ztek Consulting; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Ztek Consulting seeks an experienced AWS Cloud Architect to design scalable, secure cloud-native environments using EKS, Kubernetes, and IaC.

You will implement networking, security, observability, and automation with Terraform, AWS CDK, Argo CD, Helm, and related tools to ensure reliability and performance across AWS regions. Strong collaboration with dev teams is required. This is a full-time role based in St. Louis, MO.

Qualifications

• Experience designing AWS cloud architectures and leading migration or build-out efforts.

Responsibilities

• Design and manage Amazon EKS clusters across EC2 and Fargate.

Skills

AWS

EKS

Kubernetes

Networking

Security

Observability

IaC

Terraform

AWS CDK

Argo CD

Helm

CI/CD

Tools

Terraform

AWS CDK

Argo CD

Helm

Karpenter

Istio

App Mesh

Fargate

EC2

VPC CNI

X-Ray

CloudWatch

Job description

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.