AWS Cloud Architect

Ravh-IT

Irvine (CA)

On-site

USD 180,000 - 250,000

Full time

26 hours ago

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Job summary

Ravh-IT in Irvine, CA is seeking an experienced Enterprise Cloud & Platform Architect to design, implement and lead scalable, secure cloud platforms. Expertise in AWS, data platforms, IaC, DevOps, Kubernetes, Databricks, CI/CD, SRE, observability, and cloud security is essential.

The role collaborates with engineering, data, security, and business teams to modernize environments, establish reusable platforms, and improve reliability and governance.

Qualifications

Requires hands-on enterprise cloud architecture experience across AWS and data platforms.

Responsibilities

Design and architect enterprise-scale AWS cloud platforms supporting data engineering and business workloads.

Skills

AWS cloud architecture

Data platforms

DevOps practices

SRE

Observability

Security governance

Platform engineering

Leadership / mentorship

Multi-cloud

IaC design

Cloud security

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/IT

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Ansible

Packer

Python

Bash

Git-based Infra Management

Docker

Kubernetes

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Job description

Job Title: Enterprise Cloud & Platform Architect –OR AWS / Data Platforms or AWS Platform Engineering Lead

Locations: Irvine, CA onsite

Experience

12+ Years of Overall IT Experience

8+ Years of Cloud / Solution Architecture Experience

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced Enterprise Cloud & Platform Architect to design, architect, and lead the implementation of highly scalable, secure, reliable, and cloud-native enterprise platforms. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in AWS Cloud Architecture, Data Platforms, Infrastructure as Code, DevOps, Kubernetes, Databricks, CI/CD, SRE, observability, and cloud security.

The candidate will work closely with engineering, data, infrastructure, security, application, and business teams to define enterprise cloud strategies, modernize legacy environments, establish reusable platform capabilities, and improve reliability, automation, governance, and operational efficiency.

This role requires a hands-on architect who can translate business and technical requirements into scalable cloud solutions while establishing architecture standards, automation frameworks, security controls, and operational best practices.

Key Responsibilities

Design and architect enterprise-scale AWS cloud platforms supporting data engineering, analytics, application, and business-critical workloads.
Define cloud architecture standards covering scalability, availability, security, performance, disaster recovery, monitoring, and cost optimization.
Architect and implement modern AWS data platforms, data lakes, and lakehouse environments using services such as S3, Glue, Redshift, Athena, EMR, Lambda, and EKS.
Design and support Databricks and Apache Spark/PySpark platforms for large-scale batch and data-processing workloads.
Develop reusable infrastructure patterns using Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, and Python/Bash automation.
Establish Infrastructure-as-Code standards, reusable Terraform modules, Git-based infrastructure management, and automated provisioning processes.
Design and implement enterprise CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, and related DevOps technologies.
Integrate automated validation, quality gates, security checks, infrastructure provisioning, deployment automation, and environment promotion into CI/CD workflows.
Architect and support Kubernetes and containerized platforms, including Amazon EKS, ECS, Docker, and Helm.
Establish platform engineering capabilities including reusable services, self-service infrastructure, standardized deployment patterns, and developer enablement.
Implement SRE practices focused on reliability, availability, scalability, incident management, operational readiness, and continuous improvement.
Develop comprehensive monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability solutions using Amazon CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, CloudTrail, and related tools.
Define and implement SLOs, SLAs, operational metrics, reliability dashboards, and platform health monitoring.
Establish cloud security architecture using IAM, RBAC, KMS, Secrets Manager, encryption, network security, least-privilege access, and security controls.
Partner with security and compliance teams to ensure cloud platforms meet enterprise governance and regulatory requirements.
Lead cloud modernization and migration initiatives, including migration from on-premises and other cloud environments to AWS.
Design highly available and disaster-recovery-ready architectures for mission-critical enterprise applications and data platforms.
Support production operations, P1/P2 incidents, technical escalations, root-cause analysis, and reliability improvement initiatives.
Create architecture documentation, technical standards, operational runbooks, migration plans, and production-readiness processes.
Collaborate with application, data engineering, DevOps, infrastructure, security, and enterprise architecture teams to establish consistent cloud engineering practices.
Mentor engineering teams and provide technical leadership on cloud architecture, DevOps, platform engineering, and data-platform modernization.

Required Technical Skills

AWS Lambda, EC2, EKS, IAM, VPC
CloudWatch, KMS, Secrets Manager
High Availability / Disaster Recovery
Cloud Security & Governance
Databricks
AWS Glue
Amazon Redshift
Data Lake / Lakehouse Architecture
Data Ingestion
dbt

Infrastructure as Code & Automation

Terraform
Terraform Modules
CloudFormation
Ansible
Packer
Python
Bash / Shell Scripting
Git-based Infrastructure Management

DevOps & CI/CD

Jenkins
Jenkins Shared Libraries
GitHub
GitHub Actions
Release Automation
Deployment Automation
SonarQube / Quality Gates
GitOps
Docker
Amazon EKS
Amazon ECS
Self-Service Platform Capabilities
Reusable Infrastructure Patterns

SRE & Observability

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
CloudWatch
Grafana
CloudTrail
Monitoring & Alerting
SLO / SLA Management
Production Support

Security & Governance

AWS IAM
RBAC
KMS
Secrets Manager
Encryption
Network Security
Security Groups
Least-Privilege Access
Compliance-Ready Architecture

Preferred Qualifications

Experience working with financial services, banking, healthcare, or other highly regulated enterprise environments.
Experience designing enterprise data platforms and cloud-native architectures.
Experience leading AWS cloud modernization and migration programs.
Experience with Databricks, Spark, dbt, and Airflow in enterprise data environments.
Strong understanding of enterprise networking, security, identity, governance, and compliance.
Experience establishing platform engineering standards across large organizations.
Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills.
Ability to work with both executive stakeholders and hands-on engineering teams.
AWS Solutions Architect certification is highly preferred.
Azure or Google Cloud architecture experience is a plus.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical discipline preferred.

Ideal Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate is a hands-on Enterprise Cloud Architect / Platform Architect who combines architecture leadership with strong technical implementation experience. The candidate should be capable of designing AWS enterprise platforms, establishing Infrastructure-as-Code and DevOps standards, enabling Databricks/data engineering workloads, implementing Kubernetes-based platforms, and driving SRE, observability, security, and governance practices.

Experience across AWS, Azure, and GCP is highly valuable, particularly for enterprise organizations operating in multi-cloud environments.

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