AWS Cloud Architect

Role Overview

We seek a highly skilled AWS Cloud Architect with 8 to 12 years of experience to architect, implement, and manage secure, scalable, highly available, and cost-efficient cloud solutions on AWS. The ideal candidate will demonstrate in-depth capability in cloud infrastructure, modernization, security protocols, networking, and DevOps processes.

Key Responsibilities

• Design scalable and highly available AWS cloud architectures.
• Create strategies for cloud migration and modernization targeting enterprise applications.
• Build solutions leveraging AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, EKS/ECS, VPC, IAM, CloudFront, Route 53, API Gateway, and CloudWatch.
• Engineer secure AWS network environments including VPC, subnets, routing, VPN, Transit Gateway, and load balancers.
• Implement best practices for cloud security, governance, access management, and compliance.
• Define and manage Infrastructure as Code using tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Collaborate with DevOps, engineering, security, and application teams to deliver integrated solutions.
• Lead initiatives on cloud cost optimization, performance enhancement, and operational excellence.
• Provide technical leadership and arrange architectural guidance for project teams.
• Produce architectural diagrams, technical documents, standards, and best practices manuals.

Required Skills and Experience

• Minimum 8 years in IT infrastructure and cloud engineering with advanced AWS architecture experience.
• Profound hands-on expertise with a variety of AWS services and enterprise-grade architecture.
• Comprehensive understanding of AWS networking, security, IAM, compute, storage, database, containerization, and serverless technologies.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes/EKS, microservices architecture, and API-centric designs.
• Expertise in cloud migration, disaster recovery, high availability, and business continuity planning.
• Solid grasp of AWS Well-Architected Framework and cloud security principles.
• Excellent communication skills to manage stakeholders and design effective solutions.

Certifications

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional (mandatory).
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (optional additional credential).
• Other AWS certifications are beneficial.