Cloud Architect / Senior Developer - AWS

Title: Cloud Architect / Senior Developer – AWS Location: Irving, TX Duration: Long Term Position Summary (Summary of the Role) This is a hands-on individual contributor role responsible for designing, building, and supporting secure, scalable, resilient, and supportable AWS platforms for business-critical applications and enterprise services. The role combines cloud architecture leadership with senior-level software development, technical design, implementation, code review, testing, and production support. Key Responsibilities Develop production-quality services, APIs, background workers, event handlers, integrations, and automation using modern engineering practices.Design and implement AWS solutions using services such as ECS/Fargate, Lambda, API Gateway, ALB, EventBridge, SQS/SNS, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, CloudFront, Route 53, IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager, CloudWatch, and VPC networking.Mentor developers and promote consistent cloud, integration, security, and operational engineering practices.Support production incidents, root-cause analysis, technical debt reduction, capacity planning, and post-incident improvements.Partner with security, identity, network, data, quality assurance, and platform teams to complete architecture and security reviews.Define non-functional requirements for latency, throughput, availability, disaster recovery, security, auditability, and supportability.Lead code reviews, technical design reviews, testing strategy, debugging, performance tuning, and production issue resolution.Review solution designs, infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, API specifications, data models, logging, monitoring, and production-readiness checklists.Create and maintain architecture diagrams, sequence diagrams, data-flow diagrams, API contracts, threat models, and operational runbooks.Establish reference patterns for synchronous APIs, asynchronous events, scheduled workers, batch processing, and file-based integrations.Define target-state cloud architectures for applications, integrations, data flows, and operational tooling.Expectations The contractor will collaborate across engineering, product, infrastructure, security, data, quality assurance, and operations stakeholders.This is a full-time contract role requiring onsite work five days per week.Years of Experience 8+ years of experience in software engineering, cloud architecture, infrastructure, or solution architecture, including 4+ years designing and operating AWS solutions.Required Qualifications (Non-Negotiable) Demonstrated hands-on experience developing and delivering production-grade applications and services using at least one modern technology stack, such as Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, Node.js, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, AWS cloud services, or an equivalent platform.Experience supporting production systems with incident management, root-cause analysis, and operational runbooks.Experience working through enterprise security, identity, network, privacy, compliance, and architecture-review processes.Strong background in observability using CloudWatch or comparable tools, structured logging, metrics, traces, dashboards, and alerting.Experience with unit testing, integration testing, automated quality gates, secure coding, code review, and agile delivery practices.Experience with infrastructure as code using CloudFormation, Terraform, or an equivalent platform.Experience with at least one relational database platform, preferably PostgreSQL or SQL Server, and familiarity with migration, replication, backup, and recovery.Experience designing REST APIs, webhooks, message-based integrations, batch/file interfaces, authentication, authorization, versioning, and data contracts.Strong understanding of event-driven and distributed-system design, including queues, retries, idempotency, dead-letter handling, replay, eventual consistency, and reconciliation.Experience architecting and implementing containerized platforms using ECS/Fargate, Docker, ECR, ALB, and production CI/CD pipelines.Strong hands-on experience with AWS networking, IAM, VPCs, private connectivity, load balancing, DNS, encryption, and secrets management.8+ years of experience in software engineering, cloud architecture, infrastructure, or solution architecture, including 4+ years designing and operating AWS solutions.Nice-to-Have Qualifications (Desired but Not Required) AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, or comparable certification.Experience with GitLab CI/CD, Jira, Confluence, Splunk, or similar engineering and observability platforms.Experience designing AI-assisted operational tooling, retrieval-augmented knowledge systems, or automated incident diagnostics.Experience with data lakes, analytics platforms, business intelligence, data contracts, and operational reporting.Experience with Kafka, Kinesis, SQS, SNS, EventBridge, or other streaming and event platforms.Experience with RDS cross-region recovery, VPC Flow Logs, AWS Network Firewall, PrivateLink, Transit Gateway, or equivalent enterprise networking patterns.Experience with AWS migration from on-premises or vendor-hosted platforms.Education & Certification Requirements AWS certification is preferred but not required.Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field is preferred; equivalent professional experience will be considered.Preferred Industry Experience Experience supporting large-scale enterprise applications, cloud platforms, and distributed systems is preferred.