AWS Solutions Architect

Right Stakes; Islamabad; On-site; PKR 3,000,000 - 5,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Life Insurance

Paid Time off

Certification support

Annual trips

Public holidays paid leaves

Job summary

Right Stakes is seeking an experienced Cloud Architect to lead discovery sessions, map client requirements to robust AWS solutions, and drive migration and modernization efforts.

You will design production-grade cloud architectures, define security and governance standards, and mentor DevOps teams, while coordinating with partners and stakeholders to ensure successful outcomes.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of cloud infrastructure experience with 3+ years owning production AWS architectures.
• Hands-on with core AWS services (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, API Gateway, ALB, Route 53, SQS, SNS, EventBridge, Auto Scaling).
• Experience with AWS Organizations, Control Tower, Service Control Policies and multi-account governance.
• Strong written and verbal English communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead discovery sessions and gather technical and business requirements from clients.
• Create architecture diagrams mapping solutions to AWS services.
• Develop migration and modernization strategies for workloads.
• Define security, governance, and operational standards across AWS accounts.
• Mentor DevOps engineers and review IaC code.
• Manage AWS Partner relationship & account governance.

Skills

AWS architecture

Cloud infrastructure

English communication

Client interaction

Security best practices

Stakeholder management

APN program management

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/Software Engineering/Computer Science

AWS Solutions Architect – Associate

Tools

Terraform

AWS CloudFormation

AWS CDK

Draw.io

Lucidchart

Cloudcraft

Docker

ECS

EKS

Job description

Positions: 2

Location: Islamabad

Qualifications (what we are looking for)

• Minimum 5 years of cloud infrastructure experience, including at least 3 years designing and owning production AWS architectures.
• Hands-on experience with core AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, API Gateway, ALB, Route 53, SQS, SNS, EventBridge, and Auto Scaling.
• Experience with AWS Organizations, Control Tower, Service Control Policies and multi-account governance.
• Understanding of security services such as AWS WAF, KMS, Secrets Manager, Security Hub, Inspector and IAM Identity Center.
• Experience with database architecture, including relational and NoSQL services
• Experience estimating AWS costs using the AWS Pricing Calculator.
• Experience conducting workload migrations or modernization projects.
• Ability to create architecture diagrams using tools such as Draw.io, Lucidchart or Cloudcraft.
• Experience working directly with customers and presenting architecture recommendations.
• Strong hands‑on experience with Terraform, experience with AWS CloudFormation or AWS CDK will be an advantage.
• Experience designing and deploying containerized workloads using Docker and orchestration platforms such as Amazon ECS or Amazon EKS.
• Must hold an active AWS Solutions Architect – Associate certification. AWS Solutions Architect – Professional or an additional AWS specialty/professional certification will be preferred.
• Experience designing production‑grade cloud infrastructure.
• Strong understanding of cloud architecture principles and distributed systems.
• Must have strong written and verbal English communication skills.
• Experience managing AWS Partner Network (APN) activities, including the AWS Partner Central portal, opportunity management, certification tracking, capability development and partner compliance requirements is a plus.
• Strong organizational and stakeholder‑management skills, with the ability to coordinate AWS accounts, partner programs and team certification targets.

Education

• Bachelor's degree in IT / Software Engineering / Computer Science.

Job Responsibilities (what you will do)

• Lead discovery sessions and gather technical and business requirements from clients.
• Prepare architecture diagrams as per client’s requirements and map solutions to AWS Services.
• Create implementation roadmaps and track its implementation in coordination with operations team
• Create project cost estimates, total cost of ownership (TCO) estimates and billing estimates.
• Develop migration and modernization strategies for existing workloads
• Conduct proofs of concept and technical evaluations.
• Translate business and technical requirements into scalable, secure, reliable and cost‑effective AWS solutions.
• Identify architectural risks, dependencies and technical trade‑offs.
• Support technical proposals, effort estimation and pre‑sales discussions.
• Mentor DevOps engineers and review infrastructure designs and IaC code.
• Define security, governance and operational standards across AWS accounts.
• Recommend appropriate AWS services based on performance, security and cost requirements.
• Conduct architecture reviews and provide technical guidance to engineering teams.
• Implement AWS Well‑Architected Framework best practices.
• Maintain architecture documentation, diagrams, and operational procedures.
• Stay current with AWS services, cloud technologies, and industry best practices.
• Ensure compliance with organizational security and governance policies.
• Manage the organization’s AWS Partner relationship, including Partner Central administration, opportunity registration, team certification tracking, capability maintenance, partner program requirements and coordination with AWS representatives.
• Manage organizational AWS accounts, billing, access, governance and related administrative activities in coordination with technical and management teams.

Compensation and Benefits (what we offer)

• Market Competitive Salary
• Personal and Family Medical Insurance
• Personal Life Insurance
• Parental Medical Insurance
• Personal and Family OPD
• Paid Time off
• Paid Technical Certification
• Annual trips
• Public HolidaysPaid Leaves
• EOBI