Cloud Infrastructure Architect at TekWissen LLC

Overview: TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Our client provider of digital technology and transformation information technology and services Position: Cloud Infrastructure Architect Location: Bellevue WA Overland Park Kansas Atlanta GA or Frisco TX Duration: 6 Months Job Type: Temporary Assignment Work Type: Hybrid Job Description: Position Overview We are seeking a highly skilled Cloud Infrastructure Architect with deep expertise in designing planning and executing large-scale migrations to AWS. The ideal candidate has led complex On-Prem AWS migrations and intra-AWS migrations including moving workloads from shared-tenant environments to AWS Dedicated Hosts. This role requires strong architecture leadership hands-on technical proficiency and the ability to support large-scale Kubernetes platforms and enterprise AWS workloads while ensuring security scalability and operational excellence. Key Responsibilities Cloud Architecture & Design Architect end-to-end infrastructure solutions leveraging AWS Well-Architected Framework and enterprise design patterns. Design scalable secure multi-account landing zones VPC architectures enterprise networking and workload isolation strategies. Provide architecture leadership for containerized platforms including Amazon EKS and large-scale self-managed Kubernetes clusters. Migration Leadership Lead complex On-Prem AWS and intra-AWS migrations involving VPC redesigns account realignments multi-region moves and host architecture changes. Drive migrations from shared-tenant EC2/EKS deployments to AWS Dedicated Hosts ensuring compliance performance and workload isolation. Conduct infrastructure assessments migration strategies (rehost replatform refactor) and detailed cutover planning. AWS Dedicated Host Expertise Design and manage workloads running on AWS Dedicated Hosts including host allocation tenancy planning compliance alignment and lifecycle management. Optimize compute planning licensing models capacity strategies and high-availability architectures using Dedicated Hosts. Ensure secure and compliant hosting for sensitive workloads requiring physical isolation and regulatory controls. Kubernetes & Platform Engineering Architect and manage large multi-cluster Kubernetes environments with enterprise-grade reliability and security. Define compute and scaling strategies using EC2 EKS Bottlerocket autoscaling groups and Dedicated Hosts backed node groups. Implement service mesh workload identity observability architectures and cluster lifecycle automation. Governance Security & Compliance Develop and enforce IAM architectures guardrails cloud governance and security policies aligned with CIS NIST and organizational standards. Partner with Security and Compliance teams to implement hardening encryption network segmentation and threat detection. Operational Excellence Lead performance tuning capacity planning resiliency engineering and availability design for large-scale AWS workloads. Define operational playbooks for deployments monitoring backups DR/HA and workload lifecycle management. Mentor engineering teams on AWS architecture patterns DevOps practices and migration execution. Cross-Functional Leadership Serve as a trusted advisor to engineering SRE product and executive leadership. Partner with AWS teams and vendors to drive best practices and architectural decisions. Communicate complex solutions clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences. Required Qualifications 8 years of experience in Cloud Architecture Infrastructure Engineering or Platform Engineering. 5 years of advanced AWS experience across EC2 VPC IAM EKS RDS Route53 S3 CloudWatch CloudTrail Config and related services. Proven experience leading large-scale AWS migrations including On-Prem AWS and shared-tenant Dedicated Host transitions. Deep hands-on expertise with AWS Dedicated Hosts tenancy management licensing considerations and infrastructure lifecycle planning. Strong proficiency with Kubernetes Terraform cloud networking and infrastructure automation. Excellent understanding of multi-account governance security controls and workload isolation. Strong communication and architectural leadership skills. Preferred Qualifications AWS Solutions Architect Professional DevOps Engineer Professional or equivalent certifications. Experience with large-scale Kubernetes operations cluster bootstrap and upgrades and production reliability. Familiarity with service mesh (Istio Linkerd App Mesh) GitOps tools (ArgoCD Flux) and cloud-native observability tools. Experience designing resilient cost-optimized multi-region AWS architectures. Tek Wissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity. Key Skills Ruby,Disaster Recovery,Active Directory,SOA,Cloud,IaaS,PowerShell,AWS,Infrastructure,Linux,VPN,Hyper-V,VM,IP,Identity Employment Type : Full Time Experience: years Vacancy: 1