Cloud/AWS Architect

Akkodis is seeking a Cloud/AWS Architect for a Contract with a client in Raleigh, NC(Remote). You will lead the design and implementation of secure, scalable AWS cloud infrastructure for large enterprises, ensuring compliance and high availability.

Rate Range: $53/hour to $56/hour; The rate may be negotiable based on experience, education, geographic location, and other factors.

Cloud/AWS Architect job responsibilities include:

• Lead end-to-end cloud architecture—design, implement, and govern secure, scalable AWS (or Azure/GCP) infrastructure for large enterprise workloads.

• Assess and modernize workloads, develop cloud adoption roadmaps and business cases, and define target-state architectures aligned to customer needs.

• Design core infrastructure services (compute, storage, networking, security, logging, monitoring) using AWS services such as EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch/CloudTrail (or equivalents on Azure/GCP).

• Establish high availability and resilience, including cluster provisioning, load balancers, caching layers, and master/slave architectures; implement DR/backup strategies.

• Drive architecture governance and best practices, create standards, reference designs, and thought leadership (whitepapers, seminars); mentor teams to build competency.

• Collaborate with stakeholders across dev, security, networking, and operations to ensure compliant, cost-optimized solutions, present architecture and recommendations to executives.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field.

• Minimum 10+ years of experience in IT with at least 5+ years in cloud architecture and infrastructure design.

• Proven expertise in AWS services (EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch) or equivalent Azure/GCP services, with strong knowledge of networking, security, and storage.

• Hands-on experience in designing and implementing large-scale, secure, and highly available cloud solutions, including Infrastructure-as-Code and migration strategies.

If you are interested in this role, then please click APPLY NOW. For other opportunities available at Akkodis, or any questions, feel free to contact me at Gopal.Gupta@ akkodisgroup.com.

Pay Details: $53.00 to $56.00 per hour

Benefit offerings available for our associates include medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, additional voluntary benefits, EAP program, commuter benefits and a 401K plan. Our benefit offerings provide employees the flexibility to choose the type of coverage that meets their individual needs. In addition, our associates may be eligible for paid leave including Paid Sick Leave or any other paid leave required by Federal, State, or local law, as well as Holiday pay where applicable.

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