Systems Architect - AWS Cloud with AI

EPAM Systems; India; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

EPAM Systems is seeking a Systems Architect – AWS Cloud with AI to lead enterprise-scale cloud migration and transformation initiatives, designing robust AWS architectures and driving the adoption of AI-enabled cloud solutions for our clients.

In this role you will mentor delivery teams (6+ members), run architecture workshops, and define target-state designs using Landing Zones, IaC (Terraform / CDK), and serverless patterns to deliver secure, scalable, and cost-optimized outcomes.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience delivering large-scale AWS migration programs.
• Proficiency in landing zones, multi-account governance and security.
• Strong client-facing consulting and architecture documentation skills.
• Certification such as AWS Solutions Architect Professional or in progress.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end AWS cloud migration and transformation strategies.
• Design enterprise Landing Zones, multi-account architectures, governance.
• Translate requirements into scalable, cost-optimized cloud-native AI architectures.
• Conduct architecture workshops and executive briefings for clients.
• Create migration blueprints, wave plans, risk assessments, playbooks.
• Guide delivery teams and mentor junior architects and engineers.
• Evaluate vendor proposals and ensure alignment with AWS best practices.

Skills

AWS cloud architecture

Enterprise IT architecture

Terraform / IaC

Cloud security governance

Generative AI / GenAI concepts

Leadership / mentoring

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

CDK

SMS / App Migration Service

OpenSearch

EKS / ECS

Job description

We are seeking a Systems Architect – AWS Cloud with AI to lead enterprise-scale cloud migration and transformation initiatives, design robust AWS architectures and drive the adoption of AI-enabled cloud solutions for our clients.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end AWS cloud migration and transformation strategies covering assessment, migration planning, execution, cutover, optimization and modernization
• Design enterprise AWS Landing Zones, multi-account architectures, governance frameworks, networking, identity, security and automation standards
• Define target-state cloud-native and AI-enabled architectures by translating business and engineering requirements into scalable, resilient and cost-optimized solutions
• Lead client-facing architecture workshops, executive briefings and technical decision-making, representing the company as a senior cloud architecture advisor
• Create and govern architecture assets including high-level designs, migration blueprints, wave plans, feature breakdowns, estimations, risk assessments, playbooks and system blueprints
• Lead technical solutioning for RFPs and proposals, including cloud transformation and migration approaches, business cases, effort estimates, assumptions, risks and cost models
• Coordinate and guide delivery teams, including mid-sized teams of 6+ members, while mentoring architects and engineers and supporting project planning across budget, timeline and migration complexity
• Evaluate external vendor proposals, conduct architecture reviews and ensure solutions align with AWS and industry best practices for scalability, resilience, security, performance and cost optimization

Requirements

• 16-25 years of overall IT experience, with strong expertise in enterprise AWS cloud and systems architecture across EC2, S3, VPC, ELB/ALB, IAM, RDS, Lambda, CloudFormation and CloudWatch
• Expertise in AWS Landing Zones, Control Tower, multi-account strategy, Service Control Policies (SCPs), IAM, governance and enterprise cloud operating models
• Proven experience leading large-scale AWS migration programs, including application and infrastructure assessment, migration planning, wave-based execution, cutover and post-migration optimization
• Knowledge of AWS Migration Factory approaches and migration tooling such as AWS Server Migration Service (SMS) / Application Migration Service, including rehost, replatform and refactor strategies
• Experience in AWS networking and security architecture covering Transit Gateway, NACLs, Security Groups, AWS Network Firewall, hybrid connectivity, resilience and security best practices
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code and automation using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation and/or CDK, along with CI/CD, GitOps and platform automation practices
• Experience with cloud-native modernization using EKS, ECS, Lambda, API Gateway, microservices, containers, serverless and event-driven architecture patterns
• Understanding of Generative AI and Agentic AI concepts, including RAG, LLM integrations and AWS AI/ML services such as Amazon Bedrock, SageMaker and OpenSearch for vector search
• Customer-facing consulting, architecture documentation, estimation, RFP/RFI solutioning and stakeholder management experience, with the ability to lead technical teams and architecture discussions
• AWS certification such as Solutions Architect – Professional or active pursuit of relevant AWS certification, along with a strong continuous-learning mindset and ITIL Foundation exposure
• Nice to have Knowledge of multi-cloud and hybrid cloud architectures
• Exposure to service mesh and advanced container platforms including EKS, ECS and AWS App Mesh
• TOGAF, SEI or other enterprise architecture certifications
• Additional hands-on exposure to GenAI/Agentic AI solution patterns and AI-enabled cloud transformation programs