- Company Name
- Datasoft Technologies, Inc.
- Job Title
- Cloud Infrastructure Architect (AWS EKS) - 25-03273
- Job Description
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**Job Title**
Cloud Infrastructure Architect (AWS EKS)
**Role Summary**
Design, build, and maintain highly available, secure, and scalable cloud infrastructure on AWS with a focus on Kubernetes (EKS). Lead IaC implementations, CI/CD pipelines, and migration of on‑prem applications to the cloud while ensuring 99.999% uptime, cost optimization, and compliance with security standards.
**Expectations**
- Minimum 5 + years of experience designing and operating production‑grade Kubernetes (AWS EKS) environments.
- Proven expertise with Terraform, GitHub (including OIDC, Actions, secrets), and CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions).
- Ability to execute blue/green cluster upgrades, manage networking (VPC, CNI, ALB/NLB, WAF), and implement monitoring/alerting (Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch).
- Strong communication with security, network, and client teams; on‑site presence ≥ 2 days/week; ≤ 5 % travel.
**Key Responsibilities**
- Architect, provision, and troubleshoot AWS cloud infrastructure (VPC, EC2, networking, firewalls).
- Build and maintain EKS clusters for dev, integration, and production using Terraform IaC.
- Implement and manage CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins) for automated cluster creation and application deployments.
- Design and enforce network policies, ingress/egress controls, and security (IAM, Vault, WAF).
- Configure monitoring, logging, and alerting (Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch) and integrate with ITSM ticketing.
- Perform cost‑optimization analyses and recommend consumption reductions.
- Lead blue/green upgrade strategies; ensure fault‑tolerant, highly available deployments across multiple AZs.
- Document architecture, procedures, and release management processes; support migration of on‑prem workloads to AWS.
**Required Skills**
- AWS services: EKS, ECR, VPC, ALB/NLB, WAF, IAM, CloudWatch.
- Kubernetes mastery: cluster lifecycle, CNI, network policies, scaling, HA.
- Infrastructure as Code: Terraform (modules, state management).
- Version control & CI/CD: GitHub (OIDC, Actions), Jenkins, branching/merging strategies.
- Monitoring & observability: Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch integration.
- Scripting/automation: Bash, Python (or similar).
- Networking fundamentals: subnets, routing, security groups, firewall integration.
- Excellent communication and documentation skills.
**Required Education & Certifications**
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent professional experience).
- Preferred certifications: AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional, Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA).
Greenville, United states
Hybrid
06-03-2026