Job Description
Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. This Client is mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that address complex health issues and enhance people s lives.
Job Title: AWS Technical Architect EKS/Kubernetes & Cloud HPC
Location: North Chicago, IL 60064
Duration: 3 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Hybrid
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. This Client is mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that address complex health issues and enhance people s lives.
Job Title: AWS Technical Architect EKS/Kubernetes & Cloud HPC
Location: North Chicago, IL 60064
Duration: 3 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Hybrid
Shift: Monday through Friday
Job Description:
About the Role
Client s IR Scientific and Cloud Computing team is seeking a Technical Architect to help bring agentic biomedical research software into Client s AWS environment and explore how it can interoperate with other research tools. You ll help shape the technical vision and architecture for a platform supporting AI-driven biomedical research across Client s R&D pipeline. Working with research scientists, engineering teams, and business stakeholders, you ll translate scientific needs into scalable, secure, and dependable cloud solutions. This role is suited to a self-starter who can work through ambiguity, take initiatives from concept to production, and communicate complex technical concepts clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
What You ll Do
- Lead the technical architecture and implementation of an agentic biomedical research platform in Client s AWS environment.
- Facilitate the onboarding of biomedical research software and assess interoperability with other tools and platforms.
- Partner with scientists, engineers, and business stakeholders to understand needs and translate them into technical solutions.
- Design and support cloud and hybrid high-performance computing (HPC) solutions.
- Deploy and manage containerized workloads on Amazon EKS and Amazon ECS, using GitOps-based delivery practices.
- Address architecture needs across networking, security, identity, provisioning, storage, autoscaling, workload placement, and lifecycle operations.
- Implement monitoring and observability for cloud and containerized workloads, including metrics, dashboards, and alerting.
- Apply infrastructure-as-code, scripting, automation, and DevOps practices to support reliable operations and cost management.
- Explain architectural decisions, trade-offs, and technical concepts to a range of stakeholders.
Required Qualifications
- Master s degree and at least 5 years of relevant experience, or bachelor s degree and at least 7 years of relevant experience.
- Strong understanding of AWS cloud services, with hands-on experience with services such as:
- Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
- Elastic Load Balancing, including Application Load Balancers
- Amazon S3, Amazon DocumentDB, Amazon Bedrock, and Amazon FSx
- Strong knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes, including deploying and managing workloads on EKS and ECS.
- Experience with GitOps-based continuous delivery using Argo CD.
- Experience implementing monitoring and observability for cloud and containerized workloads using tools such as Prometheus and Grafana.
- Experience architecting cloud and hybrid HPC solutions, including networking, security, identity, provisioning, storage, autoscaling, infrastructure as code, workload placement, cost management, monitoring, and lifecycle operations.
- Strong scripting, automation, and DevOps skills.
- Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively across scientific, engineering, and business teams.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- AWS certification, such as AWS Solutions Architect or AWS DevOps.
- Knowledge of biomedical research.
- Experience with agentic development.
- Experience in the pharmaceutical, healthcare, or another regulated industry.
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | North Chicago, IL |
| Industry | Computer/IT Services |
| Salary | $80–$88 |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Year Founded | 2009 |
| Website | http://www.tekwissen.com/ |
About Company
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.
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