AWS Infrastructure Architect

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