AWS Solutions Architect

Role & responsibilities

• Design and lead secure, scalable, highly available, and cost-effective cloud solutions on AWS.
• Translate business and technical requirements into robust AWS cloud architectures.
• Develop cloud architecture strategies, reference architectures, technology standards, and migration roadmaps.
• Design solutions using AWS services including EC2, S3, VPC, RDS, Lambda, ECS/EKS, CloudFront, Route 53, API Gateway, and other managed services.
• Architect cloud-native, microservices, serverless, event-driven, and distributed applications.
• Design secure AWS networking solutions including VPCs, subnets, routing, VPNs, Direct Connect, security groups, and network access controls.
• Implement AWS security architectures covering IAM, encryption, KMS, WAF, Shield, secrets management, logging, and compliance.
• Design high-availability, fault-tolerant, backup, disaster-recovery, and business-continuity solutions.
• Lead cloud migration, modernization, and transformation initiatives from on-premises or legacy environments to AWS.
• Establish Infrastructure as Code and automation using CloudFormation, AWS CDK, Terraform, or equivalent technologies.
• Develop and improve CI/CD, DevOps, containerization, and deployment strategies.
• Monitor cloud environments and optimize performance, reliability, resource utilization, and AWS costs.
• Conduct architecture reviews, security assessments, technical evaluations, and Well-Architected reviews.
• Collaborate with application development, DevOps, security, data, infrastructure, and business teams.
• Evaluate new AWS services and emerging cloud technologies and recommend appropriate solutions.
• Create and maintain architecture diagrams, technical documentation, deployment standards, and operational procedures.
• Mentor cloud engineers, DevOps engineers, and development teams on AWS architecture and best practices.

Preferred candidate profile

• 5 to 10 years of experience in cloud computing, infrastructure engineering, software engineering, DevOps, or solutions architecture.
• Proven experience designing and implementing enterprise-scale solutions on AWS.
• Strong hands-on expertise with core AWS services including EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, RDS/Aurora, Lambda, ECS/EKS, CloudFront, Route 53, and API Gateway.
• Strong understanding of AWS networking, including VPC design, subnets, routing, NAT, VPN, Direct Connect, load balancing, and DNS.
• Strong knowledge of AWS security services and practices, including IAM, KMS, WAF, Shield, CloudTrail, Config, and Secrets Manager.
• Experience designing highly available, scalable, fault-tolerant, and disaster-resilient AWS architectures.
• Strong understanding of AWS Well-Architected Framework and its pillars.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, CloudFormation, or AWS CDK.
• Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes/EKS, CI/CD pipelines, Git, and DevOps practices.
• Experience with serverless, microservices, event-driven, and distributed system architectures.
• Strong knowledge of cloud monitoring, logging, observability, performance optimization, and cost management.
• Experience leading cloud migration, application modernization, and hybrid-cloud projects.
• Proficiency in scripting/programming languages such as Python, Bash, or similar.
• Strong understanding of database, storage, messaging, caching, and integration technologies.
• Excellent architecture, analytical, problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Ability to lead technical initiatives and mentor cloud and engineering teams.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related field; Master’s degree is an advantage.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional is highly preferred; AWS Associate-level and specialty certifications are an added advantage.