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Systems Engineer and Applications Architect
United States
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Position: Systems Engineer and Applications Architect

Location: REMOTE with US

Department: Information Technology | Reports to: IT Manager

Status: Full-Time, Exempt


Role Overview

Leads design, implementation, and management of the company's enterprise cloud architecture on AWS — covering applications, security, third-party integrations, and infrastructure modernization through automation and DevOps practices. Owns the Systems Engineering Management Plan (SEMP), spanning compliance, network automation, security, cloud platform management, and disaster recovery.


Key Responsibilities


Architect secure, scalable, fault-tolerant cloud infrastructure (VPCs, networking, storage)

Implement security controls (IAM, KMS, encryption, RBAC) and ensure SOC2/GDPR compliance

Build automation via IaC tools (Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation)

Design APIs, integration frameworks, and middleware

Monitor system performance, drive capacity planning and disaster recovery

Lead technical/architecture reviews and mentor project teams

Partner cross-functionally with dev, security, and business teams

Support project planning, budgeting, and vendor evaluation


Minimum Qualifications


Bachelor's in CS, IT, Engineering, or equivalent experience

10–15 years in Systems/Infrastructure Engineering, DevOps, or SRE

Senior/Staff/Principal-level hands-on experience

5+ years AWS, including:

Infra: EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, EKS, ECS, Lambda, CloudFormation, Route 53, CloudWatch, Auto Scaling, ELB/ALB/NLB

IaC: Terraform, CloudFormation

Automation: Python, Bash, PowerShell

Containers: Docker, Kubernetes, EKS

CI/CD: Jenkins, GitHub Actions

Monitoring: CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Splunk, Datadog

Security: IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager, Security Hub, GuardDuty, AWS Config

Strong communication skills across technical/non-technical audiences


Work Environment

Office/home-based with occasional warehouse/manufacturing site exposure; remote work available; some travel required.


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