Senior Cloud Platform Architect — AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD

KellyMitchell Group; St. Louis (MO); Hybrid; USD 69,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, & Vision Insurance

Employee-Owned Profit Sharing (ESOP)

401K offered

Job summary

KellyMitchell Group is seeking a hands-on Cloud Platform Architect to manage application architecture, deployment strategies, performance, security, and operational reliability across large-scale AWS environments. This role focuses on Kubernetes deployments, CI/CD automation, and secure cloud architecture to connect development and cloud operations.

The ideal candidate combines strong AWS expertise with the ability to troubleshoot complex issues and improve how applications are deployed and

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience designing, maintaining, and monitoring complex AWS environments.
• Strong Kubernetes experience supporting containerized applications and microservices.
• Experience building and maintaining automated CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with infrastructure automation and automated provisioning.
• Understanding of version control, repository structures, and branching strategies.

Responsibilities

• Design, maintain, and monitor enterprise AWS environments supporting application deployments.
• Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks, latency issues, and system degradation to support availability.
• Design and manage Kubernetes deployments for distributed applications and microservices.
• Develop deployment strategies that reduce downtime and improve release workflows.
• Build, automate, and maintain scalable CI/CD pipelines, including automated testing and IaC provisioning.
• Partner with development teams to define branching, merging, repository, and release strategies.
• Address security vulnerabilities within AWS-hosted applications and infrastructure.
• Apply cloud security practices across IAM, config, and deployments.
• Evaluate architecture to reduce manual work and improve cloud operations.

Skills

AWS architecture

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Security best practices

DevOps/Cloud Operations

Troubleshooting

Performance optimization

Networking latency diagnosis

Cloud automation

Tools

Git

CI/CD tools

Infrastructure as Code

Job description

KellyMitchell Group is seeking a hands-on Cloud Platform Architect to manage application architecture, deployment strategies, performance, security, and operational reliability across large-scale AWS environments. This role focuses on Kubernetes deployments, CI/CD automation, and secure cloud architecture to connect development and cloud operations.

The ideal candidate combines strong AWS expertise with the ability to troubleshoot complex issues and improve how applications are deployed and