AWS Cloud Architect

Job Title: Senior AWS Cloud Architect

Summary:

We are seeking a highly experienced AWS Cloud Architect with over 15 years of IT experience, including 8+ years in cloud architecture, engineering, and solution design. The ideal candidate will have deep hands-on expertise across AWS services, strong experience with cloud-native solutioning, and a proven track record of designing secure, scalable, and cost-optimized architectures for enterprise environments. This role requires both strategic vision and hands-on technical leadership to drive AWS adoption, modernization, and best practices across the organization.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and architect enterprise-scale solutions leveraging AWS cloud services (EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, ECS, EKS, CloudFront, VPC, etc.).

• Lead migration and modernization initiatives, including lift-and-shift, re-platforming, and re-architecting legacy workloads to AWS.

• Define AWS architecture standards, governance, and reusable frameworks to ensure security, performance, and compliance.

• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and AWS CloudFormation for consistent and automated provisioning.

• Partner with DevOps teams to establish CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration (EKS, ECS, Fargate), and monitoring solutions.

• Optimize cost, performance, and availability through best practices in instance sizing, storage management, and autoscaling.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams development, security, and data engineering to deliver integrated AWS solutions.

• Ensure all architectures align with AWS Well-Architected Framework, emphasizing security, reliability, performance efficiency, and cost optimization.

• Oversee disaster recovery (DR), backup, and business continuity strategies using AWS-native services.

• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and training to engineering and operations teams.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• 15+ years of progressive IT experience, including 8+ years of hands-on cloud architecture and engineering with AWS.

• Expertise in AWS core services: EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, Lambda, API Gateway, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, VPC, Route53, CloudFormation, and ECS/EKS.

• Strong experience designing and implementing secure, scalable, multi-tier architectures on AWS.

• Proficiency with Terraform, CloudFormation, and scripting languages (Python, Bash, PowerShell).

• Experience with DevOps tools Jenkins, GitLab, Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS CodePipeline.

• Hands-on experience integrating data, analytics, and AI/ML services (Glue, Redshift, Athena, SageMaker).

• Knowledge of AWS networking and security best practices, including VPNs, NACLs, and encryption (KMS).

• Excellent understanding of cost optimization, tagging, and AWS Billing tools (Cost Explorer, Budgets, Trusted Advisor).

• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills to collaborate with business and technical teams.

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional or equivalent certification preferred.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience in hybrid cloud environments and on-premise integrations.

• Exposure to FinOps and cloud cost governance.

• Familiarity with microservices, event-driven architectures, and serverless frameworks.

• Knowledge of compliance and governance frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, FedRAMP).

Soft Skills:

• Strategic thinker with the ability to translate business needs into technical solutions.

• Excellent leadership, mentoring, and presentation abilities.

• Strong analytical mindset and proactive problem-solving skills.

• Passion for continuous learning and innovation in AWS technologies.