Senior AWS Architect

Senior AWS Architect
Location: Houston, TX
Mode: Hybrid (3 days onsite a week)

We are seeking an experienced AWS Cloud Architect to design, implement, and govern scalable, secure, and reliable AWS cloud architectures. The role focuses on enterpriselevel cloud strategy, infrastructure design, security, and operational excellence while enabling development teams to build and deploy cloudnative applications effectively.

The ideal candidate has deep AWS expertise, strong architecture design skills, and experience defining cloud governance, security guardrails, and best practices across multiple cloud workloads.

Responsibilities

• Design endtoend AWS cloud architecture for enterprise and largescale applications
• Define multiaccount AWS strategy using AWS Organizations and Control Tower
• Design highly available, faulttolerant, and scalable architectures
• Create architecture blueprints, reference architectures, and design patterns
• Define cloud security architecture following AWS WellArchitected Framework
• Implement - IAM policies and roles at scale, Network security (VPC, security groups, NACLs) and Encryption (KMS, TLS, secrets management)
• Enforce governance, compliance, and security guardrails
• Support compliance standards (ISO, SOC2, HIPAA, PCIDSS as applicable)
• Design and manage - VPC architectures, Transit Gateway, SitetoSite VPN, Direct Connect etc.
• Support hybrid and multicloud connectivity
• Implement network segmentation and traffic control
• Define standards for Infrastructure as Code (Iac) and Implement IaC using - AWS CloudFormation or Terraform
• Automate provisioning, configuration, and environment setup
• Ensure consistency across dev, test, and production environments
• Design cloudnative CI/CD pipelines
• Apply AWS WellArchitected Framework (Cost, Security, Reliability, Performance)
• Optimize AWS spend using cost governance and FinOps practices
• Conduct architecture reviews and performance tuning
• Act as a technical advisor to development and operations teams

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience AWS Architecture
• Strong handson experience with AWS services
• EC2, S3, RDS, DynamoDB
• VPC, IAM, Route 53
• Lambda, API Gateway
• ECS / EKS
• Advanced AWS networking and security knowledge
• Experience with highavailability and disaster recovery architectures
• Experience designing cloud platforms and landing zones
• Experience in largescale cloud migrations preferred
• Strong understanding of cloud security principles
• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform / CloudFormation)
• Strong SQL skills and understanding of data quality, metadata management, and performance tuning.
• Excellent communication skills to work with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience/knowledge of SAP and Salesforce data sources is a plus.

Preferred Qualifications:

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional (or Associate)