Cloud Architect

TekWissen LLC

Lansing, MI

JOB DETAILS
SALARY
$83–$83
SKILLS
AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Administrative Skills, Adverse Events, Agriculture, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Automation, Autoscaling, Bash Scripting, Cloud Architecture, Cloud Computing, Code Reviews, Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS), Continuous Deployment/Delivery, Continuous Integration, Database Administration, Debugging Skills, Department of Health and Human Services, DevOps, Digital Certificates, Diversity, Docker, Environmental Health, Federal Government, Flux Application Architecture, Git, GitHub, Healthcare, Identify Issues, Incident Response, Jenkins, Law Enforcement, Linux Administration, Linux Operating System, Mentoring, Metrics, Microsoft ADO (ActiveX Data Object), Microsoft Product Family, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft SQL Server DBA (Database Administration), Microsoft Windows Azure, Natural Resources, Network Security Design, Operating Systems, Operations Processes, PostgreSQL, Product Testing, Production Systems, Public Safety, Public/Media/Press/Analyst Relations, Red Hat Linux Operating System, Reporting Dashboards, Rural Development, Software Design, Software Development, Software Patches, Source Code/Configuration Management (SCM), Splunk, Static Analysis, Subnet, Systems Administration/Management, Team Player, Technical Leadership, Ubuntu, Unix Shell Programming, Virtual Machine (VM), Workforce Management, Writing Skills, nginx Web Server
LOCATION
Lansing, MI
POSTED
1 day ago
Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. The below Client runs through fifteen executive departments which carry out the day-to-day administration of the federal government. Popular departments like Agriculture and Rural Development, Civil Rights, Environment, Health and Human Services, Natural Resources, Secretary of State. This Client has opportunities in a number of career pathways, including, but not limited to, business and administrative support, education and human services, IT and computers, medical and healthcare, natural resources, law enforcement and public safety, skilled trades and more. With positions in over 18 state departments, your perfect career fit is waiting for you at the client. This client is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Job Title: Cloud Architect
Location: Lansing, MI 48933
Duration: 6 Months
Job Type: Hybrid
Work Type: Temporary Assignment
Shift: 8.00AM - 5.00 PM
Job Description:
  • We are seeking a Senior Cloud Migration Architect to embed with our development team and lead the AWS platform configuration and CI/CD automation for a large-scale enterprise cloud migration program.
  • The program covers 30+ applications across migration approaches such as Elastic Beanstalk, Amazon EKS, EC2/Cloud VM - to be delivered across multiple sprints.
  • The contractor will own the technical configuration of AWS services for each migration pattern, design and build Azure DevOps (ADO) pipelines that integrate with ArgoCD or Flux for GitOps-driven deployments to EKS, and partner closely with application teams, the AWS Infrastructure Team, and the DBA team to deliver production-ready environments sprint by sprint.
  • This is a hands-on, deeply technical role for someone who can move fast, write production-grade IaC, debug across the stack, and mentor application developers and administrators on cloud-native patterns.
Key Responsibilities
AWS Platform Configuration
  • Configure and tune AWS Elastic Beanstalk environments for applications across Dev, Test, and Prod, including platform versions, scaling policies, environment variables, and rolling deployment configuration
  • Stand up and operate Amazon EKS clusters across Dev/Test/Prod for containerized workloads, including node groups, cluster autoscaling, ingress controllers, and namespace strategy
  • Provision and harden EC2/Cloud VM environments, including AMI selection, instance sizing, OS-level configuration, and patching strategy
  • Partner with the DBA team on Amazon RDS setup for SQL Server and PostgreSQL including parameter groups, subnet groups, backup policies, and Multi-AZ configuration
  • Design VPC networking, security groups, IAM roles/policies, KMS keys, and Secrets Manager integration following least-privilege principles
  • Build infrastructure-as-code (Terraform preferred; CloudFormation acceptable) so every environment is reproducible and auditable
CI/CD & GitOps
  • Design and build Azure DevOps build and release pipelines tailored to each migration pattern:
  • EB pattern: source build artifact eb deploy to environment per stage
  • EKS pattern: Docker build ECR push manifest/Helm chart update GitOps sync via ArgoCD or Flux
  • EC2 pattern: build AMI bake or aws-deploy blue/green or rolling release
  • In-place upgrade pattern: validation, packaging, and controlled deployment to existing servers
  • Implement GitOps using ArgoCD or Flux for EKS workloads - pull-based deployments, automated drift detection, app-of-apps or kustomize/helm patterns, multi-cluster or multi-namespace promotion
  • Establish promotion strategy across Dev to Test to Prod with appropriate gates, approvals, and rollback mechanisms
  • Standardize pipeline templates (YAML) so application teams can self-onboard new services consistently
  • Integrate static analysis, container scanning (Trivy/ECR scan), SAST/DAST hooks, and artifact provenance into the pipeline
Observability & Reliability
  • Configure CloudWatch logs, metrics, alarms, and dashboards for each workload
  • Define SLOs, alerting thresholds, and incident response runbooks for production cutover events
Documentation & Hand-off
  • Produce architecture decision records (ADRs), runbooks, and operational procedures so workloads can be supported by the long-term operations team
  • Maintain a clean, versioned IaC repository as the source of truth for all environments
Collaboration
  • Work daily with application development teams, AWS Infrastructure Team, DBA Team, and Tech Leads
  • Pair with developers to debug cloud-specific issues (cold starts, container OOMs, RDS connectivity, IAM denials)
Required Qualifications
  • 5 6+ years hands-on experience building and operating production workloads on AWS, with deep knowledge of Elastic Beanstalk, EKS, EC2, RDS, VPC, IAM, S3, CloudWatch, and Secrets Manager
  • 3+ years hands-on with Kubernetes - production EKS preferred, including Helm, kubectl, ingress (ALB/NGINX), HPA, and troubleshooting pods/services/networking
  • Production experience with ArgoCD or Flux - designed app-of-apps structure, managed multi-environment promotion, and resolved GitOps drift in real workloads. This is non-negotiable.
  • Strong Azure DevOps Pipelines (YAML) experience - build pipelines, multi-stage release pipelines, variable groups, service connections, and self-hosted/Microsoft-hosted agents. Equivalent strong experience in another major CI/CD tool (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins) is acceptable if Azure DevOps can be picked up quickly
  • Solid Docker skills - multi-stage builds, image hardening, ECR
  • Infrastructure-as-Code in production: Terraform (preferred) or CloudFormation/CDK
  • Database familiarity - comfortable working with DBA teams on RDS (SQL Server and PostgreSQL), connection strings, secrets rotation, and migration cutover
  • Linux administration (RHEL/Amazon Linux/Ubuntu) and shell scripting (bash)
  • Source control with Git - branching strategies, pull requests, code review discipline
  • Strong written communication - must produce clear runbooks, architecture diagrams, and PR descriptions
Preferred Qualifications
  • AWS certifications: AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional or DevOps Engineer - Professional
  • CKA / CKAD (Certified Kubernetes Administrator/Developer)
  • Experience migrating .NET and Java applications from on-premises to AWS
  • Experience operating COTS products in containerized or cloud environments
  • Experience with service mesh (Istio, App Mesh) or API gateways
  • Exposure to HashiCorp Vault, secrets rotation, and certificate management
  • Familiarity with DataDog, New Relic, or Splunk in addition to native AWS observability
  • Experience with blue/green and canary deployment patterns
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.

About the Company

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TekWissen LLC

WE THE TEKWISSEN PEOPLE

TekWissen offers you a broader portfolio of services, industry-leading solutions, and the meaningful innovations that give you greater flexibility and speed to respond to market dynamics, reduced costs and risk to improve enterprise performance, and increased productivity to enable growth.

To keep pace with global market demands, TekWissen keeps its finger on the pulse of change. Our organized approach to guiding a project from its inception to closure. Managing projects is becoming more and more important as we enter the digital era. To cope with the pace that this transition demands, a method is required to manage projects so they can yield quality work, while incorporating efficient use of time and resources.

Project involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.

It is important to perform quality planning during the Planning Process and should be done alongside the other project planning processes because changes in the quality will likely require changes in the other planning processes, or the desired product quality may require a detailed risk analysis of an identified problem. It is important to remember that quality should be planned, designed, then built in, not added on after the fact.

Capabilities and accomplishments in one TekWissen business enhance the opportunity for success in the others. Put simply, TekWissen's unique combination of attributes promotes success.



COMPANY SIZE
100 to 499 employees
INDUSTRY
Computer/IT Services
FOUNDED
2009
WEBSITE
http://www.tekwissen.com/