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Hi,

Hope you are doing well!

I'm Shikha Dixit, Lead Recruiter at Siri Info Solutions. I've reviewed your background in [ JavaScript/TypeScript, Node.js, Java, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, AWS cloud services , CloudWatch, CloudFormation, ECS, Fargate, Docker, ECR, ALB, IAM, VPCs, load balancing, DNS, etc.], and your profile stands out as an excellent match for a " Cloud Architect / Senior Developer AWS " opening in Irving, TX. This is a high-priority , 5-day on-site role with one of our key clients . Given your experience, I'd love to discuss the details and see if this aligns with your career goals. Are you open to a quick 5-minute chat?

Role: Cloud Architect / Senior Developer AWS (W2)

Duration: 12 months

Location: Irving, TX 75063 (5 days onsite)

Job Description:

Summary

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.

Best Regards,

Shikha Dixit | Email: shikha.dixit@siriinfoinc.com | LinkedIn:

Lead Recruiter

Siri InfoSolutions Inc, 3 Ethel Rd, Suite # 302, Edison NJ 08817.

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