Senior Software Architect
DataStaff, Inc is seeking a Senior Software Architect for a long-term contract opportunity with one of our direct clients located in Indianapolis, IN.
*This position is remote; however, the selected candidate must currently be located in Indiana.
Job Description:
Responsible for ensuring the quality and consistency of the software architecture and providing day-to-day technical guidance to the development teams.
Knowledge and Experience:
- Experience with observability and monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Alertmanager, and Grafana
- Experience with NGINX Ingress or NGINX Gateway
- Experience with Fluent Bit for log forwarding
- Knowledge of pgvector or vector-based database extensions
- Experience with Keycloak for identity and access management
- Experience using KEDA for event-driven scaling in Kubernetes
- Experience with MongoDB
- Experience with Helm chart deployment and management
- Experience with Jira
- Experience with Confluence
- Experience with Bitbucket
- Experience with Splunk
- Design, deploy, and maintain cloud infrastructure using AWS services such as EC2, EFS, RDS, ALB, IAM, and S3.
- Manage and operate Kubernetes/EKS clusters, including deployments, integrations, and troubleshooting
- Develop, implement, and support document generation or automation solutions using SmartDocument
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to build scalable, secure, and automated solutions
- Monitor system performance, reliability, and capacity, and proactively resolve issues.
- Create and maintain technical documentation, diagrams, and operational procedures.
- Ability to set defined goals and meet deadlines.
- Must demonstrate a willingness to learn and adapt to new applications and technology platforms.
- Ability to critically evaluate information from multiple sources and translate business needs into technical requirements.
- Thorough knowledge of system performance tuning, reliability practices, and operational best practices.
- Ability to develop and execute system backup and recovery procedures.
- Ability to work effectively with technical teams and business partners.
- Strong oral and written communication skills.
Required Skills:
- Bachelor’s degree or higher
- AWS certification
- 5 Years - Strong hands-on experience with AWS (e.g., EC2, EFS, RDS, ALB, IAM, S3, Lambda
- 5 Years - Experience managing and troubleshooting Kubernetes/EKS (i.e., deployments, integrations, configuration)
- 5 Years - Experience with document generation or automation platforms (e.g., SmartDocuments, DocuSign CLM, Adobe PDF Services)
- 5 Years - Experience with Linux and Windows environments
- 5 Years - Scripting skills for system automation, configuration management, and troubleshooting
- 3 Years - Familiarity with Agile frameworks
- 3 Years - Experience with CI/CD framework and pipeline software such as Jenkins
This opportunity is available as a W2 position with a competitive benefits package. DataStaff, Inc. offers medical, dental, and vision coverage options as well as paid vacation, sick, and holiday leave. As many of our opportunities are long-term, we also have a 401k program available for employees after 6 months.