AWS DevOps Architect

About Us Data, analytics and cybersecurity staffing. We connect professionals and companies to deliver successful projects. Job Description This is a remote position. We are looking for a highly experienced AWS DevOps Architect to design and implement scalable, secure, and resilient cloud solutions in a complex enterprise environment. The ideal candidate combines strong AWS architecture expertise with deep, hands-on knowledge of Kubernetes, particularly Amazon EKS. This is not a purely strategic architecture position—the successful candidate must be comfortable designing solutions, making and defending technical decisions, and contributing directly to implementation and automation. Location and Engagement Location: Prague, Czech Republic Working model: Hybrid Contract: Long-term B2B/freelance cooperation Start date: As soon as possible Key Responsibilities Design end-to-end AWS cloud architectures aligned with business, technical, security, and enterprise requirements. Lead the DevOps strategy across infrastructure provisioning, application deployment, operations, and release management. Design and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or AWS CDK. Architect, deploy, and support containerized workloads running on Amazon EKS. Define Kubernetes request flows, service interactions, workload placement, networking, and scaling strategies. Select and implement appropriate Kubernetes autoscaling mechanisms based on workload characteristics, including CPU-bound, memory-bound, and event-driven workloads. Build and improve CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or AWS CodePipeline. Automate infrastructure provisioning, application deployments, configuration management, and operational processes. Design highly available, fault-tolerant, and disaster-resilient AWS environments. Implement secure connectivity between applications, databases, and managed AWS services. Introduce passwordless and IAM-based authentication patterns where appropriate. Establish monitoring, logging, alerting, observability, and incident-response practices. Apply AWS security best practices across identity management, networking, encryption, logging, and access control. Evaluate alternative architecture approaches and clearly justify the selected technical solutions. Optimize cloud environments for performance, reliability, security, operational efficiency, and cost. Troubleshoot complex infrastructure, Kubernetes, networking, deployment, and production issues. Collaborate with development, security, architecture, and operations teams. Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and best-practice guidance to engineering teams. Requirements At least 8 years of experience in DevOps, cloud engineering, infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, or cloud architecture. Strong hands-on experience designing and implementing solutions on AWS. Deep practical knowledge of Kubernetes and production experience with Amazon EKS . Strong understanding of Kubernetes architecture and internal components. Practical knowledge of: Pods and the pod lifecycle Deployments and StatefulSets Services and Ingress ConfigMaps and Secrets Kubernetes networking and request flow Resource requests and limits Scheduling and workload placement Health checks, readiness probes, and liveness probes High availability and resilience Strong knowledge of Kubernetes scaling mechanisms: Horizontal Pod Autoscaler Vertical Pod Autoscaler Cluster Autoscaler Selection of an appropriate strategy for CPU-bound, memory-bound, and event-driven workloads Extensive experience with AWS services, including: Amazon EC2 Amazon S3 AWS IAM Amazon VPC Amazon Route 53 Amazon EKS and ECS AWS Lambda Elastic Load Balancing EC2 Auto Scaling Amazon CloudWatch and AWS CloudTrail Amazon RDS and DynamoDB Amazon SQS and SNS Ability to design complete AWS architectures and clearly explain the reasoning and trade-offs behind architectural decisions. Experience implementing secure application-to-database connectivity, including IAM-based or passwordless authentication where applicable. Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code, preferably Terraform or AWS CloudFormation. Practical experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and release-automation processes. Production experience with Docker and Kubernetes. Strong understanding of AWS IAM, network security, encryption, secrets management, and least-privilege access. Solid Linux administration and troubleshooting skills. Good understanding of networking concepts, including DNS, routing, firewalls, load balancing, TLS, and private connectivity. Scripting and automation experience using Python, Bash, or PowerShell. Strong problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder-management skills. Ability to work independently and provide technical leadership within cross-functional teams. Preferred Qualifications AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional or a comparable AWS certification. Experience designing microservices and distributed systems. Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Splunk, or similar observability platforms. Experience with enterprise-scale, multi-account AWS environments, AWS Organizations, and landing zones. Familiarity with AWS Control Tower. Experience with service mesh technologies such as Istio or Linkerd. Exposure to regulated or compliance-driven enterprise environments. Knowledge of security governance, cloud compliance, and infrastructure-control frameworks. Experience with GitOps tools such as Argo CD or Flux. Key Competencies AWS solution architecture Amazon EKS and Kubernetes engineering DevOps automation and CI/CD Infrastructure as Code Cloud security and identity management Architecture decision-making and technical justification Scalability, high availability, and disaster recovery Monitoring, troubleshooting, and incident response Cloud cost optimization Technical leadership and stakeholder collaboration Benefits Location: Remote in EU Contract Type: Freelance / Contract Start date: September, 2026 Time Allocation: 40 hours/week Pharmaceutical industry