Job title- Senior AWS Cloud architect
Location- Washington DC hybrid, one day a week in the office
Semantic Data Systems seeks a Senior AWS Cloud architect to perform cloud development work.
Required knowledge and experience
- AWS cloud application development experience.
- Agile development experience.
- Experience building and deploying cloud applications with the Python language for backend services and Angular or React for front-end development.
- Must have expert knowledge in the following areas: cloud technology platforms, cloud tools/services, DevOps and database management.
- Must be able to lead one or more of the following: database management, programming, cloud security/recovery, and cloud-centric integration.
- Experience working as a developer writing Python code along with the Infrastructure as Code (IaC) required to deploy with either AWS CDK or Terraform. Experience modeling business process in AWS Step-Functions.
- Experience developing container-based applications utilizing REST Apis for web-based application written with either Angular or React in Typescript. Experience utilizing AWS CloudWatch and AWS CloudTrail for logging events and audit messages, for operating in a highly regulated environment.
- The candidate will be responsible for remediation and unit testing of code when issues arise as part of the application development and user deployment process.
Expected duties
- Hands on AWS development experience required
- GovCloud development experience helpful
- Full understanding of storage AWS infrastructure with emphasis on storage (S3/Databases), archiving (S3 options) and database backups (Aurora/RDS/DynamoDB), networking
- Full understanding on Application Load Balancers, API Gateways with all related security (Okta/Cognito) and networking (security and protocols)
- Detailed attention to security roles and least privilege access, and the ability to resolve security warnings
- Ability to manage multiple application deployment modules, configurations and application integration
- Infrastructure as code implementation using CDK/Python and/or Terraform
- Deployment automation and scripting
- Infrastructure unit testing (e.g., cdk-nag) and other forms infrastructure tests (e.g., resilience testing)
- Implementation of best practices based on both Wel-Architected Framework and organizational requirements
- Command line proficiency (PowerShell/Bash)
Personnel Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Business Administration Science, Mathematics, or Engineering.
- Minimum of 10 years of experience with integration, systems analysis, or programming experience within Cloud environments.
- Minimum of 8 years of experience developing systems requirements and design specifications.
- Automated software delivery in a CI/CD environment using Jenkins, Gitlab CI, or similar.
- Professional Cloud Architect Certification.