Senior WorkSpaces Architect

Location: Remote — must maintain reliable overlap with US business hours through 2:00 PM Pacific daily

Who We Are

Proven Recruiting has partnered with a client to find a Senior WorkSpaces Architect to lead the architecture, engineering, and reliability on a contract basis. This is a hands‑on, solo technical leadership role: you'll design, build, troubleshoot, and operate the platform directly while partnering closely with internal teams.

What You'll Do

- Drive the technical architecture and direction of the AWS WorkSpaces platform, including golden image lifecycle, provisioning automation, and monitoring/alerting
- Serve as the senior technical escalation point for complex WorkSpaces and VDI issues
- Lead cost optimization and governance efforts, including lifecycle automation and provisioning controls
- Act as the primary technical liaison to business units and the AWS vendor team

What You'll Need

- Senior-level, hands‑on AWS WorkSpaces engineering and architecture experience
- Deep AWS EUC knowledge: WorkSpaces Personal, Secure Browser, bundles, images,



directories
- Strong AWS infrastructure skills: VPC, subnets, DNS, routing, security groups, Directory Service/AD
- Windows and macOS endpoint troubleshooting
- Monitoring and automation experience: CloudWatch, EventBridge, CloudTrail, Lambda, scripting
- ServiceNow ITSM workflows and major incident leadership (RCA/PIR/AAR)

We actively support and promote people of various backgrounds from race, religion, gender to geographical area, university, lifestyle, and personality type. Proven recruiting is minority‑owned, majority women and is a solid advocate for diversity and inclusion in the community.

What does this position pay?

Compensation is determined by several factors which may include skillset, experience level, and geographic location.

The expected range for this role is $67.00 to $81.00 per hour. Please note this range is an estimate and actual pay may vary based on qualifications and experience.

📌 Senior WorkSpace Architect (Calgary)
🏢 Proven Recruiting
📍 Calgary