Senior AWS Well-Architected Framework Architect

Job Title: Senior AWS Well-Architected Framework Architect

Location: Remote

Duration: / Term: FTE

Experience Desired: 10+ Years
 

Job Description:

Key Responsibilities

Observability

• Design and implement end-to-end observability solutions using AWS CloudWatch, Dynatrace, Splunk, and Grafana.
• Capture, manipulate, aggregate, and report on metrics across distributed applications and AWS services.
• Build and maintain dashboards that surface actionable insight into system health, performance, and NFR compliance.
• Develop observability solutions and deploy them into the customer environment, ensuring they are operable and maintainable by customer teams.
• Define alerting, thresholds, and reporting standards that align with business and operational requirements.

Reliability

• Serve as the subject-matter expert on High Availability, resiliency, and fail-over for AWS services in multi-zonal (multi-AZ) and multi-region configurations.
• Define AWS solutions that satisfy the specified NFRs against which applications have been assessed.
• Architect and implement resilient designs incorporating redundancy, automated recovery, disaster recovery (DR), and graceful degradation.
• Develop reliability solutions and deploy them into the customer environment.
• Validate resiliency through fail-over testing, chaos/resilience exercises, and recovery objective (RTO/RPO) verification.

General

• Conduct and contribute to AWS Well-Architected Framework reviews, focusing on the Observability and Reliability domains.
• Partner with customer stakeholders to gather NFRs and translate them into technical designs.
• Produce architecture documentation, runbooks, and knowledge transfer materials.

Required Qualifications

• Extensive, in-depth working experience with AWS CloudWatch, Dynatrace, Splunk, and Grafana, including a substantial history of capturing, manipulating, reporting, and dashboarding metrics.
• Proven expertise in High Availability, resiliency, and fail-over of AWS services in multi-zonal and multi-region configurations.
• Demonstrated ability to define AWS solutions that meet specified non-functional requirements.
• Hands-on experience developing solutions and deploying them into live customer/production environments.
• Strong understanding of the AWS Well-Architected Framework, particularly the Reliability and Operational Excellence pillars.
• Solid grasp of AWS core services (compute, networking, storage, load balancing, DNS/Route 53, IAM) as they relate to availability and observability.

Preferred Qualifications

• AWS certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (e.g., CloudFormation, Terraform, CDK) for repeatable deployments.
• Familiarity with disaster recovery strategies and RTO/RPO-driven design.
• Experience in a consulting or customer-facing delivery capacity.

Key Attributes

• Able to operate independently as both an architect and a hands-on implementer.
• Strong communication skills for working directly with customer teams.
• Comfortable owning solutions from assessment through deployment.

Key Skills:

AWS, WAF Reviews, Cloud Migration, Cloud watch, Networking.