Role Description
AWS Solution Architect Experience: 8–12+ years overall, with 4+ years of hands‑on AWS architecture experience. Role: AWS Solution Architect / Cloud Architect. Job Summary: We are looking for an experienced AWS Solution Architect to design, implement, and optimize secure, scalable, highly available cloud solutions. The candidate should have strong hands‑on experience with AWS services, cloud‑native architecture, migration, security, automation, and DevOps practices.
Key Responsibilities
- Design scalable, secure, highly available, and fault‑tolerant solutions on AWS.
- Define cloud architecture, reference architectures, and technical standards.
- Lead migration and modernization of on‑premises workloads to AWS.
- Design solutions using EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, S3, RDS/Aurora, DynamoDB, API Gateway, CloudFront, Route 53, SQS/SNS, and IAM.
- Design VPCs, subnets, security groups, load balancers, Transit Gateway, VPN, and Direct Connect connectivity.
- Build cloud‑native and microservices‑based architectures.
- Implement Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or AWS CDK.
- Establish CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, or AWS CodePipeline.
- Define security controls using IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager, WAF, GuardDuty, Security Hub, and CloudTrail.
- Implement monitoring and observability using CloudWatch, CloudTrail, OpenSearch, Prometheus, and Grafana.
- Optimize AWS infrastructure for cost, performance, reliability, security, and operational efficiency.
- Conduct architecture reviews and provide technical guidance to development and DevOps teams.
- Ensure solutions align with the AWS Well‑Architected Framework.
Must‑Have Skills
- Strong AWS cloud architecture experience
- AWS networking and security
- EC2, S3, RDS/Aurora, Lambda ECS/EKS and Docker/Kubernetes
- API Gateway and microservices
- VPC, Route 53, ELB/ALB, Transit Gateway
- IAM, KMS and cloud security
- Terraform / CloudFormation
- CI/CD and DevOps
- CloudWatch and monitoring
- High availability and disaster recovery
- Cloud migration and modernization
- Cost optimization
Good to Have
- Python or Shell scripting
- Serverless architecture
- Multi‑account AWS environments using AWS Organizations / Control Tower
- Hybrid‑cloud architecture
- FinOps exposure
- Experience with databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, DynamoDB, or Aurora
Skills
- AWS
- AWS IAM
- AWS Lambda
- Amazon CloudFront
- Amazon EC2
- Amazon Route 53
- Amazon CloudWatch
- DevOps
- Python
- Kubernetes
- Shell Scripting