AWS Solution Architect

Job Title: AWS Solution Architect Location: Indianapolis IN Duration: 12 Months Type: Hybrid ONsite - 3 days / per week and Remote - 2 days / Week Job Description: Architect should be certified and experts in cloud architecture and AWS technologies and work to ensure that the cloud infrastructure is secure, efficient, and aligned with the organization's goals and compliance with Indiana Office of Technology cloud terms. Solution Architect responsible for designing and implementing scalable, reliable, and cost-effective solutions on the AWS cloud platform. Key Responsibilities: Solution Design: Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business and technical requirements, and design scalable, cost-effective solutions using AWS services. Architectural Planning: Create detailed architectural diagrams and documentation to outline the structure of AWS solutions, including network architecture, data storage, and computing resources. Service Selection: Recommend and select appropriate AWS services to meet the specific needs of each project, considering factors like performance, cost, and security. Infrastructure Design and Deployment: Plan, implement, and maintain AWS infrastructure, including but not limited to virtual private clouds (VPCs), subnets, security groups, IAM roles, and networking components. Application Deployment: Facilitate the deployment of applications on AWS, using services like Amazon EC2, Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk, and containers (ECS/EKS). Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Implement infrastructure automation and manage AWS resources using tools like AWS Cloud Formation or other industry proven. Security: Ensure the security and compliance of AWS solutions by implementing best practices, encryption, and identity and access management (IAM) controls. Cost Optimization: Optimize AWS costs by selecting cost-effective services and architectures, implementing cost monitoring, and providing recommendations for cost reduction. Performance and Scalability: Design solutions that can scale horizontally and vertically to accommodate growing workloads and demand. High Availability and Disaster Recovery: Design solutions with high availability and disaster recovery in mind, using features like AWS Availability Zones and backup strategies. Monitoring and Optimization: Set up monitoring and alerting systems to pro-actively identify and address performance and availability issues. Technical Leadership: Collaborate with development and operations teams to guide the implementation of AWS solutions and provide technical leadership. Customer Engagement: Act as a trusted advisor to customers, provide technical expertise, and assist in decision-making related to AWS services. AWS Glue: Oversight and help AWS Glue developer for designing and implementing data integration, transformation, and ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) workflows using AWS Glue along with other AWS services. Vendor Management: Work with the IDOH vendor who will be responsible to incompletion of migration of on-premise applications and databases to AWS environment.