AWS Solutions Architect

Bright Vision Technologies • Highlands Ranch, CO

2d • $100,000 - $150,000 • Remote

About The Position

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking an experienced AWS Solutions Architect to design, build, and operate large-scale, secure, and highly available cloud platforms on Amazon Web Services. This is a hands-on engineering role spanning architecture, infrastructure-as-code, automation, security, observability, and continuous operational improvement of mission-critical production workloads. The role calls for strong knowledge of AWS services, DevOps fundamentals, and pragmatic, cost-aware design, working in partnership with application, security, and SRE teams to deliver resilient cloud-native solutions that scale with the business.

The position is 100% remote within the United States and is full-time, direct W2 employment. The listed annual salary range is $100,000–$150,000. Bright Vision Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer and states its commitment to equal employment opportunity and prohibition of workplace harassment and discrimination.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Five or more years of cloud engineering experience, including at least three years focused on AWS in production environments.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS core services, including EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, Lambda, CloudFront, and CloudFormation.
• Production-grade experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, AWS CDK, or CloudFormation.
• Experience designing and operating Amazon EKS or ECS clusters at scale.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines across infrastructure and application workloads.
• Strong scripting skills in Python and Bash.
• Deep understanding of cloud security, IAM, encryption, key management, and compliance requirements.
• Experience implementing observability, monitoring, and alerting in cloud-native environments.
• Strong troubleshooting, communication, and documentation skills.

Nice To Haves

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional or DevOps Engineer – Professional certification.
• Experience with multi-account AWS Organizations and centralized governance.
• Familiarity with service mesh, eBPF-based observability, and zero-trust networking.
• Exposure to FinOps practices and well-architected cost-optimization frameworks.
• Experience operating regulated workloads such as HIPAA, PCI-DSS, SOC 2, or FedRAMP.
• Familiarity with Go or PowerShell.

Responsibilities

• Architect, deploy, and operate enterprise-grade AWS environments across compute, networking, storage, identity, and managed data services, with attention to scalability, reliability, and security.
• Author and maintain production-quality infrastructure-as-code using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or AWS CDK, with version control, peer review, and automated validation.
• Design multi-account AWS organizations, including landing zones, SCPs, centralized logging, and shared services.
• Build secure VPC topologies, including subnetting, route tables, transit gateways, VPN, and Direct Connect integrations.
• Implement IAM strategies using roles, permission boundaries, SCPs, AWS SSO, and short-lived credentials to enforce least-privilege access.
• Design, deploy, and operate Amazon EKS clusters and other container platforms such as ECS and Fargate, including auto-scaling, networking, service-mesh integration, and observability.
• Operate AWS managed data and analytics services including RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, S3, Redshift, Glue, and Kinesis, optimizing them for workload access patterns and SLAs.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI for repeatable, audited infrastructure and application deployments.
• Implement observability using CloudWatch, X-Ray, AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, and third-party tools, including dashboards, alerts, and SLOs.
• Drive cost optimization through right-sizing, savings plans, reserved instances, lifecycle policies, and architectural simplification, tracking measurable savings over time.
• Implement disaster-recovery and business-continuity capabilities, including cross-region replication, automated backups, failover testing, and documented runbooks.
• Strengthen security posture using AWS Security Hub, GuardDuty, Macie, Inspector, Config, and CloudTrail, and lead remediation with security teams.
• Advise application development teams on AWS-native design patterns, anti-patterns, and service choices.
• Develop automation scripts and operational tooling in Python, Bash, and Go to streamline routine work and accelerate incident response.
• Mentor junior engineers, lead architecture and design reviews, and contribute cloud thought leadership within the organization.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior