Description

The State of Michigan is looking for a Cloud Architect

Top Skills & Years of Experience:

- 5–6+ years hands-on experience building and operating production workloads on AWS, with deep knowledge of Elastic Beanstalk, EKS, EC2, RDS, VPC, IAM, S3, CloudWatch, and Secrets Manager

- 3+ years hands-on with Kubernetes - production EKS preferred, including Helm, kubectl, ingress (ALB/NGINX), HPA, and troubleshooting pods/services/networking

- Solid Docker skills - multi-stage builds, image hardening, ECR

Clear and concise written and verbal communication is crucial to success and productivity in this role.

- Will close submissions on: 5/20/26 at 10am EST

- Interview Process: In-person interviews (will likely be held between 5/25-5/29)

- Duration: 6 months with possible extension

- Hybrid: Resource will be working a hybrid schedule. NO REMOTE ONLY OPTION. Will need to be onsite from day 1, two days a week.

- Local candidates (strongly preferred) or non-local (must be willing to relocate at their own expense from acceptance with no delays & follow the hybrid schedule). Please note, both local AND non-local candidates must be available for an in-person interview

Key Skills

Education

Any Graduate