AWS Solution Architect

Position: AWS Solution Architect
Location: Torrance, CA (Onsite)
            
Role Summary
•   AWS Solution Architect to define secure, scalable, resilient, and cost-effective cloud solutions, lead modernization and migration initiatives, and govern architecture from discovery through implementation.

Architecture & Solution Design
•    Define end-to-end AWS solution architectures aligned with business goals, enterprise standards, and non-functional requirements.
•    Create current-state, target-state, integration, deployment, network, security, and data architecture views.
•    Select fit-for-purpose managed AWS services and define reusable architecture patterns.
•    Lead technical evaluations, architecture reviews, design decisions, and implementation guardrails.
                
AWS Platform Expertise
•    Design solutions using services such as EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, API Gateway, S3, RDS/Aurora, DynamoDB, CloudFront, Route 53, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, EventBridge, SQS, SNS, Glue, Athena, and Redshift.
•    Apply AWS Well-Architected principles across operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, cost optimization, and sustainability.
                
Migration & Modernization
•    Assess application portfolios and define migration or modernization strategies.
•    Develop cloud migration roadmaps, landing-zone requirements, dependency plans, and cutover considerations.
•    Guide refactoring toward microservices, containers, serverless, event-driven, and API-led architectures where appropriate.
                
Security, Governance & Cost
•    Embed security by design, least privilege, encryption, secrets management, auditability, and compliance controls.
•    Define governance guardrails, tagging, policy enforcement, service standards, and architecture decision records.
•    Drive cost transparency, sizing, consumption optimization, and architectural trade-off decisions.
                
DevOps & Automation
•    Define infrastructure-as-code and automated delivery approaches using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation or AWS CDK.
•    Guide CI/CD, environment promotion, observability, release, rollback, and operational-readiness practices.
•    Partner with engineering teams to automate repeatable provisioning and governance controls.
                
Required Skills
•    12+ years of IT industry experience with significant experience in cloud and solution architecture.
•    Deep hands-on knowledge of AWS architecture, cloud-native patterns, networking, security, integration, data, and DevOps.
•    Experience delivering enterprise migration, modernization, or greenfield cloud programs.
•    Strong understanding of NFRs, architecture documentation, risk management, and technology governance.
                
Preferred Qualifications
•    AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional.
•    AWS specialty certification in Security, Networking, Data Analytics, or DevOps is advantageous.
•    TOGAF or equivalent architecture certification.
•    Manufacturing or automotive domain experience is an added advantage.