AWS Technical Lead

Tata Consultancy Services; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 2,800,000 - 5,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Tata Consultancy Services seeks an experienced AWS Cloud Architect to lead end-to-end cloud solution design for application modernization, migration, and cloud-native development. 8–12 years of IT experience with strong hands-on AWS expertise are required.

You will translate business needs into technical designs, guide DevOps teams, review deliverables, and govern security, scalability, and cost optimization across projects.

Qualifications

• 8 to 12 years of IT experience with strong hands-on AWS architecture and cloud delivery.
• Hands-on in AWS services: EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS/Aurora, Lambda, API Gateway, ECS/EKS, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Secrets Manager, Route 53.
• Experience designing secure, scalable, and cost-optimized cloud solutions using Well-Architected principles.
• Hands-on IaC and automation with Terraform, CloudFormation, pipelines, Docker, Kubernetes.
• Understanding of microservices, REST APIs, event-driven architecture, observability, security, and release practices.
• Ability to lead design discussions, guide teams, review deliverables, manage risks, and communicate with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end AWS technical solution design for application modernization, migration, integration, and cloud-native development initiatives.
• Translate business and architecture requirements into detailed technical designs, implementation plans, estimates, and delivery work packages.
• Lead developers and DevOps engineers, conduct design/code reviews, resolve technical blockers, and ensure engineering quality across the team.
• Implement and govern cloud best practices across security, networking, observability, scalability, backup, disaster recovery, and cost optimization.
• Build and maintain reusable accelerators, automation scripts, deployment pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code modules.
• Collaborate with architects, Scrum Masters, product owners, security teams, operations teams, and client stakeholders for successful delivery.
• Support incident analysis, RCA, performance tuning, technical documentation, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement activities.

Skills

AWS cloud architecture

DevOps

Terraform

CloudFormation

Docker

Kubernetes

Security best practices

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

GitHub/GitLab/Jenkins/Azure DevOps pipelines

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

• 8 to 12 years of IT experience, including strong hands-on experience in AWS cloud architecture, application development, DevOps, and production-grade cloud delivery.
• Strong knowledge of AWS services such as EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS/Aurora, Lambda, API Gateway, ECS/EKS, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Secrets Manager, and Route 53.
• Experience in designing secure, scalable, resilient, and cost-optimized cloud solutions using AWS Well-Architected principles.
• Hands-on experience with IaC and automation tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, GitHub/GitLab/Jenkins/Azure DevOps pipelines, Docker, and Kubernetes.
• Good understanding of microservices, REST APIs, event-driven architecture, databases, observability, cloud security, and release/deployment practices.
• Ability to lead technical design discussions, guide engineering teams, review deliverables, manage technical risks, and communicate clearly with client and internal stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities*

• Own end-to-end AWS technical solution design for application modernization, migration, integration, and cloud-native development initiatives.
• Translate business and architecture requirements into detailed technical designs, implementation plans, estimates, and delivery work packages.
• Lead developers and DevOps engineers, conduct design/code reviews, resolve technical blockers, and ensure engineering quality across the team.
• Implement and govern cloud best practices across security, networking, observability, scalability, backup, disaster recovery, and cost optimization.
• Build and maintain reusable accelerators, automation scripts, deployment pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code modules.
• Collaborate with architects, Scrum Masters, product owners, security teams, operations teams, and client stakeholders for successful delivery.
• Support incident analysis, RCA, performance tuning, technical documentation, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement activities.