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.