Job Description
Job DescriptionPosition Title: Cloud Architect (AWS/ DevOps)
Contract Duration: 12 Months
Work Location: Norfolk, VA
Employment: Onsite (100%)
About Us: Endurance IT Services provides Managed IT Services, Cybersecurity Solutions, and IT Consulting to help businesses stay secure and productive. We also offer IT Staffing for Direct-Hire, Contract-to-Hire, and contract roles, plus internal full-time positions.
Note: Some opportunities may not be exclusive and can change as we work with clients but our goal is always to help candidates find the right job.
The Cloud Architect plays a pivotal role in designing, implementing, and optimizing scalable, secure, and high-performance cloud-native solutions across AWS and Google Cloud environments. This position is critical to enabling enterprise clients with robust, future-ready infrastructure that supports modern application development, including React-based front-ends and .NET back-ends. The ideal candidate will serve as a technical leader, driving cloud strategy, governance, and innovation while ensuring alignment with business goals, security standards, and cost efficiency across multi-cloud platforms.
Responsibilities:
- Architect and implement cloud solutions using AWS and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services to ensure scalability, security, and cost efficiency.
- Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines using modern DevOps tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Terraform, and Ansible.
- Collaborate with development teams to integrate React front-end and .NET back-end applications into cloud environments.
- Define cloud governance, security policies, and compliance standards across multi-cloud deployments.
- Optimize application performance and reliability through monitoring, automation, and infrastructure-as-code practices.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineering teams on cloud architecture best practices.
- Conduct architecture reviews and ensure alignment with business objectives and industry standards.
Requirements:
- Advanced knowledge of AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, VPC) and Google Cloud (Compute Engine, Cloud Functions, BigQuery, IAM).
- Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and infrastructure automation (Terraform, CloudFormation).
- Proficiency in React.js for front-end development and .NET Core for back-end services.
- Understanding of IAM, encryption, VPNs, and secure API integrations.
- Ability to design distributed systems, microservices, and event-driven architectures.