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Description
Indent ID – SF_OP_202305-23-1
Client:- Rithum
Role :- Contract
Position – AWS Tech Lead
Experience: 8 – 12 yrs
# of positions:2
C2C - $59/hr USD
Location: – Dallas, Texas (Hybrid)
About the Role
We are looking for a seasoned AWS Tech Lead to architect, build, and scale cloud-native platforms that power our next generation of products.
You will own end-to-end design and delivery of event-driven, serverless, and real-time data solutions on AWS — leading a high-performing team while staying hands-on with code and infrastructure.
This role demands deep AWS expertise, a passion for automation and infrastructure-as-code, and fluency with modern AI-assisted development tooling such as Claude (Anthropic) and Cursor. You will be a key technical voice in architecture decisions, mentorship, and engineering culture.
Core Technical Skills
AWS Native Services
AWS Lambda & Serverless
Amazon Kinesis (Real-Time Streaming)
Amazon DynamoDB
Amazon OpenSearch / Elasticsearch
Infrastructure-as-Code — AWS CDK & Terraform
AI-Powered Development — Claude & Cursor
Key Skills Snapshot
Roles & Responsibilities
Required Experience & Qualifications
Nice to Have
Client:- Rithum
Role :- Contract
Position – AWS Tech Lead
Experience: 8 – 12 yrs
# of positions:2
C2C - $59/hr USD
Location: – Dallas, Texas (Hybrid)
About the Role
We are looking for a seasoned AWS Tech Lead to architect, build, and scale cloud-native platforms that power our next generation of products.
You will own end-to-end design and delivery of event-driven, serverless, and real-time data solutions on AWS — leading a high-performing team while staying hands-on with code and infrastructure.
This role demands deep AWS expertise, a passion for automation and infrastructure-as-code, and fluency with modern AI-assisted development tooling such as Claude (Anthropic) and Cursor. You will be a key technical voice in architecture decisions, mentorship, and engineering culture.
Core Technical Skills
AWS Native Services
- Design and own end-to-end cloud architectures using AWS-native services
- EC2, ECS / EKS, Fargate, Auto Scaling, ALB / NLB, Route 53, CloudFront
- IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager, AWS Organizations, Control Tower
- S3, Glacier, CloudWatch, AWS X-Ray, Systems Manager
- Apply AWS Well-Architected Framework principles across all workloads
- Drive cost optimization, reliability, security, and operational excellence
AWS Lambda & Serverless
- Architect and deliver production-grade serverless applications using AWS Lambda
- Cold-start mitigation, Provisioned Concurrency, memory/timeout tuning
- Lambda Layers, container image packaging, and function aliases
- Build event-driven systems integrating Lambda with API Gateway, SQS, SNS, S3, EventBridge
- Implement Lambda-based data pipelines and microservice backends
- Enforce security best practices — least-privilege IAM roles, VPC Lambda configurations
Amazon Kinesis (Real-Time Streaming)
- Design and operate real-time data streaming architectures with Kinesis
- Kinesis Data Streams, Kinesis Data Firehose, Kinesis Data Analytics
- Tune shard counts, retention periods, and throughput for high-volume ingestion
- Integrate Kinesis with Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, OpenSearch for end-to-end pipelines
- Handle backpressure, error recovery, and exactly-once / at-least-once semantics
Amazon DynamoDB
- Model and design DynamoDB tables for performance and scale
- Single-table design, partition key selection, composite sort keys, GSIs / LSIs
- Apply advanced patterns: adjacency lists, sparse indexes, optimistic locking
- Configure DynamoDB Streams, TTL, on-demand vs. provisioned capacity
- Optimize read/write costs and prevent hot partitions at scale
- Integrate DynamoDB with Lambda for real-time event-driven workflows
Amazon OpenSearch / Elasticsearch
- Deploy and manage Amazon OpenSearch Service (formerly Elasticsearch)
- Design index strategies, mappings, analyzers, and custom tokenizers
- Build complex search features: full-text search, fuzzy matching, aggregations, faceted search
- Ingest data from Kinesis Firehose, Lambda, and DynamoDB Streams into OpenSearch
- Tune cluster performance — shard allocation, replica strategy, JVM heap tuning
- Implement Kibana / OpenSearch Dashboards for operational monitoring and analytics
Infrastructure-as-Code — AWS CDK & Terraform
- Proficient in AWS CDK (TypeScript / Python) for cloud-native IaC
- Constructs, Stacks, Aspects, custom L2/L3 constructs, CDK Pipelines
- Strong hands-on experience with Terraform for multi-cloud and AWS infrastructure
- Modules, remote state, workspaces, Terragrunt for DRY configurations
- Enforce infrastructure consistency across dev / staging / production environments
- Integrate IaC into CI/CD pipelines (CodePipeline, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI)
AI-Powered Development — Claude & Cursor
- Proficient with Claude (Anthropic) for AI-assisted development workflows
- Use Claude API / Claude.ai for code generation, architecture review, and documentation
- Design prompt engineering strategies for consistent, high-quality code outputs
- Build internal tooling or developer workflows powered by the Claude API
- Proficient with Cursor IDE for AI-native development
- Leverage Cursor's in-editor AI for pair programming, refactoring, and debugging
- Configure Cursor with project-specific context for accurate code suggestions
- Advocate for responsible, high-leverage use of AI tooling across the engineering team
Key Skills Snapshot
| AWS Lambda | Kinesis Streams | DynamoDB |
| OpenSearch / ES | AWS CDK | Terraform |
| Claude API | Cursor IDE | API Gateway |
| EventBridge | SQS / SNS | CloudFormation |
| CI/CD Pipelines | Docker / ECS | Microservices |
| Serverless |
Roles & Responsibilities
- Lead architectural design and technical direction for cloud-native AWS solutions
- Drive end-to-end delivery of serverless and event-driven systems from design to production
- Review and approve infrastructure-as-code (CDK / Terraform) across all environments
- Mentor and level up engineers through design reviews, pair programming, and 1:1s
- Own and improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment strategies, and release quality
- Define and enforce AWS security baselines, IAM governance, and compliance controls
- Collaborate with Product and Data teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions
- Lead production incident response, RCA, and engineering post-mortems
- Drive the adoption of AI tooling (Claude, Cursor) across the engineering team
- Evaluate and introduce new AWS services and emerging technologies relevant to product goals
- Contribute hands-on to codebase — this is a coding tech lead role, not management-only
Required Experience & Qualifications
- 8 – 12 years of software / cloud engineering experience with significant AWS exposure
- Demonstrated track record of designing and shipping large-scale AWS cloud-native systems
- Strong proficiency in at least one backend language: Python, Node.js, Java, or Go
- Deep hands-on experience with all of: Lambda, Kinesis, DynamoDB, OpenSearch
- Production-grade experience with AWS CDK or Terraform (not just awareness)
- Proven experience leading engineering teams and conducting technical design reviews
- Familiarity with AWS security best practices, WAF, Shield, and compliance frameworks
- Comfortable with Agile / Scrum delivery methodologies
Nice to Have
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional or DevOps Engineer – Professional
- Experience building or productizing systems using LLM/GenAI APIs (Claude, OpenAI, etc.)
- Background in data engineering, streaming analytics, or real-time ML pipelines
- Experience with multi-region, active-active AWS architectures
- Contributions to open-source infrastructure or cloud tooling projects
| Sr. No | Skills | Years of Exp | Rating |
| 1 | 8 – 12 years of software / cloud engineering experience with significant AWS exposure | ||
| 2 | Demonstrated track record of designing and shipping large-scale AWS cloud-native systems | ||
| 3 | Strong proficiency in at least one backend language: Python, Node.js, Java, or Go | ||
| 4 | Deep hands-on experience with all of: Lambda, Kinesis, DynamoDB, OpenSearch | ||
| 5 | Production-grade experience with AWS CDK or Terraform (not just awareness) | ||
| 6 | Proven experience leading engineering teams and conducting technical design reviews | ||
| 7 | Familiarity with AWS security best practices, WAF, Shield, and compliance frameworks | ||
| 8 | |||
| 9 |
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Santa Clara, CA |
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