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Job Title: Sr. Solutions Architect – AWS
Job Type: Contract | Contract to hire
Job Location: Cincinnati, OH – on-site / hybrid
Job Eligibility: US Citizen
MUST HAVE SKILLS:
- Responsible for coordinating multiple interdependent infra projects forming a program.
- Partner with the ATMRO DT site leaders and other functions likes Services Technology, Engineering to build strategy for the shop infrastructure. Partner with DT STS, Cyber leadership to drive strategy helping the ATMRO shops realize digital infrastructure strategy.
- Partner with the DT teams and Cyber security organization to solution the EVM and APM.
- Critical Operations: Coordinate with the STS and other teams to respond to P1 incidents.
- Act as a focal in assisting, guiding and promoting the DT ATMRO strategy and act as conduit across a matrixed organization
- Experienced in technology consulting projects:
- Data Center Transformation assessments
- Definition of Infrastructure Strategies and Roadmap including OT and complex integrations
- Architecture Design and Implementation of Infrastructure and Automation Solutions
- Establish strong partnership with AWS to ensure best practices proliferate throughout the life of the program in regard to architecture, best services and cost management
- Partner with STS for all cloud initiatives (VPC management, Solution architecture, landscape management, and Migration activities)
- Work closely with the ATMRO DT product teams to act as trusted advisor on infrastructure requirements.
Job Title: Sr. Solutions Architect – AWS
Job Type: Contract | Contract to hire
Job Location: Cincinnati, OH – REMOTE
Job Eligibility: US Citizen
We are seeking a hands-on AWS Architect on behalf of our fortune 500 client. This individual will have deep experience building, configuring, troubleshooting, and supporting AWS infrastructure in production environments.
This is not a strategy-only or governance-focused architect role. The ideal candidate has personally implemented AWS solutions, worked extensively with Kubernetes/EKS, and can explain architecture decisions and technical configurations in step-by-step detail.
Required Technical Skills
AWS & Infrastructure
- AWS EC2
- VPC, Route Tables, Security Groups, NACLs
- Route 53, Load Balancers, Auto Scaling
- Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, VPN
- IAM, IAM Roles, IAM Policies
Kubernetes / Amazon EKS (Critical)
- Built and administered EKS clusters
- Configured Nodes, Pods, Deployments, Services
- Kubernetes networking and troubleshooting
- IAM Roles for Service Accounts (IRSA)
- Kubernetes RBAC and permissions
- Production support and incident resolution
Infrastructure as Code
- Terraform
- CloudFormation
- Automated infrastructure deployments
Automation & Serverless
- Lambda
- EventBridge
- Step Functions
- Systems Manager (SSM)
Migration & Modernization
- AWS Migrations (MGN, DMS, CloudEndure preferred)
- Discovery, planning, execution, cutover, and support
- Must have led implementation, not just assessment activities
AI (Preferred)
- Amazon Bedrock
- RAG architectures
- Amazon Q
- OpenSearch / Vector Databases
What the Hiring Team Will Test
Candidates must be able to explain in detail:
- How to build an EKS cluster with 3 worker nodes
- How Pods are configured
- How permissions are assigned in AWS and EKS
- How IAM authorization works
- How to troubleshoot EKS and networking issues
- How to resolve overlapping VPC/CIDR problems
- How they personally implemented AWS solutions
- Real production incidents they have resolved
Ideal Backgrounds
Best Fit Titles
- Senior AWS Platform Engineer
- Lead AWS Engineer
- Principal Cloud Engineer
- Kubernetes Engineer
- Senior Platform Engineer
- AWS Infrastructure Architect
- Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
- Cloud Platform Architect
- DevOps Architect
Less Ideal
- Enterprise Architect
- Pre-Sales Architect
- Cloud Strategy Architect
- Governance Architect
- Consulting Architect (unless recently hands-on)
Key Hiring Criteria
The ideal candidate should be able to say:
? “I built the EKS cluster.”
? “I configured the IAM roles and permissions.”
? “I wrote the Terraform.”
? “I deployed and managed the pods.”
? “I troubleshot the networking issue.”
? “I led the migration through implementation and cutover.”
Not:
? “I designed the architecture.”
? “I led discovery workshops.”
? “I aligned stakeholders.”
? “I built the roadmap.”
The strongest candidates will be engineers who became architects, not architects who have moved away from hands-on technical work.
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