AWS Architect
Remote ** Time zone preferred: EST or CST **
Contract (W2)
| Name | Required |
| AWS Organizations | Yes |
| AWS Control tower | Yes |
| AWS VPC | Yes |
| AWS Cloud | Yes |
| AWS Platform | Yes |
| AWS - IAM | Yes | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Years of Experience: 14 Years
Top skills:
- Strong expertise in AWS Organizations, Control Tower, IAM, VPC, and Security services
- Experience with enterprise cloud governance and compliance models
- Hands-on experience designing large-scale AWS architectures
- Strong understanding of security, networking, resilience, and cost optimization
- Excellent communication, documentation, and stakeholder management skills
- Prior experience setting up AWS Platform or Cloud COE will be preferred
Role Summary:
- Seeking an experienced AWS Enterprise / Solutions Architect to support Cloud Center of Excellence (COE) initiatives.
- The architect will be responsible for defining AWS cloud architecture, governance, and enterprise guardrails, ensuring alignment with AWS best practices and client standards.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead AWS landing zone and Control Tower / AFT assessments and improvements
- Define multi-account strategy, environment separation, and shared services model
- Design IAM architecture including roles, permission boundaries, and AWS Identity Center integration
- Define network architecture, segmentation, routing, and connectivity guardrails
- Establish enterprise tagging, naming standards, and security/compliance guardrails (SCP intent)
- Create and maintain AWS reference architectures and golden paths (EC2, ECS, EKS, Serverless)
- Define policy-as-code intent in collaboration with DevOps teams
- Provide architectural guidance for DR, resilience, RTO/RPO, and SRE fundamentals
- Review designs and provide architectural oversight for AWS workloads
- Develop COE documentation, standards, and onboarding materials
Certifications:
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional (preferred)
- AWS Certified Security Specialty
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