Remote, Minnesota 55401 Posted October 10th, 2026
Job Type: Contract
Job Category: IT
Job Description
Role: AWS Infrastructure Architect
Location – Remote
Contract
Job Summary
We are seeking an experienced AWS Infrastructure Architect to design, implement, and manage secure, scalable, highly available, and cost-effective cloud infrastructure solutions on Amazon Web Services (AWS). The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in cloud architecture, infrastructure automation, networking, security, migration, and operational excellence.
Key Responsibilities
Design and implement scalable, resilient, and highly available AWS cloud infrastructure architectures.
Develop cloud infrastructure strategies aligned with business and technical requirements.
Architect AWS environments using services such as EC2, S3, VPC, ELB/ALB, Auto Scaling, Route 53, EBS, EFS, and RDS.
Design and manage AWS networking components, including VPCs, subnets, route tables, NAT gateways, Transit Gateway, VPN, and Direct Connect.
Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or AWS CDK.
Establish cloud security best practices, including IAM, KMS, Security Groups, NACLs, encryption, and least-privilege access.
Design disaster recovery, backup, high availability, and business continuity solutions.
Plan and execute cloud migration strategies from on-premises or other cloud environments to AWS.
Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting using Amazon CloudWatch, AWS CloudTrail, AWS Config, and related tools.
Optimize AWS infrastructure for performance, availability, and cost efficiency using AWS cost management tools.
Collaborate with DevOps, application, security, and networking teams to deliver reliable cloud solutions.
Required Skills
Performance Architect