AWS Cloud Architect | Onsite - Charlotte, NC | 6+ Months

About Genius Business Solutions Inc. (GBSI)

Featured in CNBC, Digital Journal, Fox News, and CIO Review, GBSI is a globally recognized IT services leader with 20+ years serving Fortune 500 organizations. Our teams deliver solutions across automotive, manufacturing, retail, and pharmaceutical industries. Headquartered in Moline, IL, GBSI supports clients and consultants throughout the US, Canada, Europe, and India.

Join our innovative team to lead enterprise-grade SAP solutions and drive digital transformation initiatives across global enterprises.

Job Summary

An AWS Cloud Architect designs, deploys, and manages scalable, secure, and cost-effective cloud infrastructure on Amazon Web Services while aligning technical blueprints with business goals.

Key Responsibilities
• Architecture Design: Translate business requirements into high-level system diagrams, network topologies, and multi-tier cloud strategies following the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
• Core AWS Implementation: Build and manage environments using key services like Amazon EC2, VPC, S3, RDS, IAM, and AWS Lambda
• Migration & Modernization: Lead the migration of on-premises servers, databases, and applications to the cloud, including adopting containerization (Docker, Amazon EKS) and serverless patterns.
• Security & Compliance: Establish identity and access controls, network firewalls, encryption standards, and disaster recovery or high-availability protocols.
• Cost & Performance Optimization: Audit cloud spend, right-size compute instances, and tune resource allocation for efficiency.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Act as the bridge between executive stakeholders, development teams, and DevOps engineers. As noted, a cloud architect's daily focus is primarily on strategic design and alignment rather than heavy coding.

Required Technical Skills
• AWS Services: Deep mastery of compute, storage, database, networking (Route 53, Direct Connect, VPN), and security tools.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Proficiency in Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or Ansible.
• Containers & Orchestration: Experience with Docker and Kubernetes (EKS).
• DevOps & CI/CD: Familiarity with Git, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or Azure DevOps.
• Operating Systems: Strong Linux and Windows administration foundation
• AWS Services: Deep mastery of compute, storage, database, networking (Route 53, Direct Connect, VPN), and security tools.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Proficiency in Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or Ansible.
• Containers & Orchestration: Experience with Docker and Kubernetes (EKS).
• DevOps & CI/CD: Familiarity with Git, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or Azure DevOps.
• Operating Systems: Strong Linux and Windows administration foundation

Equal Employment Opportunity

GeniusBSI is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe that no one should be discriminated against because of their differences, such as age, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity and expression, religion, or sexual orientation.

All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, or any other basis as protected by federal, state, or local law.