AWS Architect

Job Title : AWS Architect

Location : Torrance, CA (Onsite)

 

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.
•  Design multi-account, network segmentation, identity, logging, monitoring, backup, disaster recovery, and high-availability approaches.

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.

Technical Leadership
•  Present architecture recommendations to Architecture Review Boards and executive stakeholders.
•  Lead solution workshops and collaborate with application, security, data, infrastructure, network, and operations teams.
•  Mentor technical teams and provide hands-on architecture guidance through delivery.

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.
•  Excellent stakeholder communication, facilitation, and technical leadership skills.

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.