AWS Cloud Technical Lead

Job Role: AWS Cloud Technical Lead

Location: Fort Washington, PA

Job Description:

Key Responsibilities:

Cloud Architecture & Design

• Design end-to-end AWS cloud architectures for PaaS, IaaS, and Hybrid workloads.
• Define reference architectures for GenAI, document intelligence, OCR, and underwriting platforms.
• Architect scalable solutions using
• Amazon ECS / EKS / Fargate (containers)
• Amazon EC2 (VMs).
• Amazon ECR (container registry).
• Amazon S3 (object storage).
• Amazon RDS / Aurora / PostgreSQL (databases).
• Drive cloud design reviews, architecture sign-offs, and technical governance.
• Capable of designing and implementing secure connectivity between AWS and Azure cloud environments

Security & Compliance:

Design secure architectures using:

• AWS IAM (Identity & Access Management), Roles, Policies, MFA.
• AWS Secrets Manager / KMS for secrets and encryption.
• Amazon VPC, Security Groups, NACLs, Private Subnets.
• AWS WAF with Application Load Balancer (ALB).
• Ensure compliance with BFSI regulations, SOC2, GDPR, PII data protection, and internal security policies.
• Work with cybersecurity teams on threat modeling, VNET isolation, and zero-trust patterns.

DevOps & Operations:

• Define DevOps and CI/CD strategies using AWS CodeCommit, CodeBuild, CodePipeline / Jenkins / Git.
• Containerization and deployment using ECS / EKS + ECR + Fargate.
• Integrate monitoring and observability using Amazon CloudWatch (logs, metrics, alerts).
• Define DR, backup, high availability, and resiliency patterns (RTO/RPO) using Multi-AZ deployments, backups (RDS snapshots, S3 lifecycle).
• GenAI & Advanced Services (Good to Have).
• Architect solutions using Azure OpenAI, Azure Cognitive Services (Document Intelligence, Computer Vision), Amazon Textract (OCR/document processing).
• Design secure GenAI pipelines with controlled data usage and no client data leakage.
• Support AI workloads running on ECS/EKS/App services with monitoring and cost controls.
• Stakeholder & Delivery Collaboration.
• Partner with Product Owners, SMEs, and business users to translate requirements into cloud designs.
• Support presales, RFP responses, architecture walkthroughs, and client discussions.
• Provide technical guidance to development and infrastructure teams.

Required Skills

• AWS Core Services.
• Compute & Containers: Amazon EC2, ECS / EKS, Fargate.
• Networking: VPC, ALB/NLB, Security Groups.
• Storage & Database: Amazon S3, EFS, Amazon RDS / Aurora / PostgreSQL.
• DevOps & Monitoring: Amazon ECR and AWS CloudWatch Security & Identity.
• Image build and scanning using AWS ECR Inspector.

Architecture & Delivery:

• Cloud design patterns, microservices, containerization.
• Experience with large-scale enterprise and BFSI solutions.
• Strong knowledge of NFRs (Performance, Security, Scalability).