AWS Cloud Architect & Platform Lead

Micrologic; Parsippany-Troy Hills (NJ); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Micrologic Associates seeks an experienced AWS Architect & Platform Engineering Lead to design, implement, and operate our cloud infrastructure. You will guide a team of AWS engineers to deliver a stable, scalable cloud platform that accelerates product development and business outcomes.

The role blends strategic architecture with hands-on engineering, including SLAs, DR, security, and cost governance. You will own platform reliability and champion modern cloud practices across development teams.

Qualifications

• 8-12 years of experience in cloud engineering, architecture, or platform engineering.
• Deep expertise in AWS core services, VPC design, IAM, security, and multi account strategy.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, or CDK.
• Experience with ECS/EKS, Lambda, EventBridge, and event driven architectures.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD, GitOps, DevOps pipelines, and automation.
• Proven experience leading or mentoring engineers.
• Experience owning SLAs, DR, incident response, and operational reliability.

Responsibilities

• Architect scalable, secure, and cost-efficient AWS solutions across compute, storage, networking, and security.
• Define reference architectures, platform patterns, and architecture modernization roadmaps (microservices, serverless, containers).
• Lead multi account strategy, landing zone design, IAM governance, and network architecture.
• Partner with Product, Platform, and Development leaders to align cloud strategy with business priorities.
• Build and maintain platform components including CI/CD pipelines, shared services, observability stack, and deployment frameworks.
• Implement infrastructure using Terraform, CloudFormation, or CDK with strong GitOps discipline.
• Drive automation across provisioning, scaling, patching, and operational workflows.
• Ensure platform consistency, reliability, and performance across all environments.
• Lead, mentor, and develop senior AWS engineers; provide technical direction, required coaching, and guidance.
• Manage sprint planning, workload distribution, and delivery commitments.
• Set engineering standards for IaC, CI/CD, security, automation, and documentation.
• Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement.

Skills

AWS architecture

Terraform / IaC

CI/CD / GitOps

Team leadership

Security & IAM governance

FinOps / cost governance

Observability

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

CDK

GitOps

ECS / EKS

Lambda

Job description

Micrologic Associates seeks an experienced AWS Architect & Platform Engineering Lead to design, implement, and operate our cloud infrastructure. You will guide a team of AWS engineers to deliver a stable, scalable cloud platform that accelerates product development and business outcomes.

The role blends strategic architecture with hands-on engineering, including SLAs, DR, security, and cost governance. You will own platform reliability and champion modern cloud practices across development teams.