AWS Solution Architect

Inherent Technologies; Torrance (CA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Inherent Technologies seeks an experienced AWS Solution Architect to design secure, scalable, and cost-effective cloud solutions. You will lead modernization, migrations, and governance across discovery to implementation.

Responsibilities include end-to-end architecture design, review leadership, and guiding refactoring toward microservices, containers, and serverless patterns, with emphasis on security and cost control.

Qualifications

• Deep hands-on knowledge of AWS architecture, cloud-native patterns, networking, security, integration, data, and DevOps.
• Experience delivering enterprise migration, modernization, or greenfield cloud programs.
• Strong understanding of NFRs, architecture documentation, risk management, and technology governance.

Responsibilities

• Define end-to-end AWS solution architectures aligned with business goals, standards, and non-functional requirements.
• Create current-state and target-state architecture views including deployment, network, security, and data views.
• Lead architecture reviews, design decisions, and implementation guardrails.
• Define migration or modernization strategies and roadmaps for portfolios.
• Embed security by design, governance guardrails, tagging, and cost transparency.

Skills

AWS architecture

Cloud-native patterns

Networking

Security

DevOps

Data integration

Governance

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

AWS CDK

Job description

Position: AWS Solution Architect

Location: Torrance, CA***HYBRID***

Duration: 1 Years

Role Summary

Seeking an experienced AWS Solution Architect to define secure, scalable, resilient, and cost-effective cloud solutions, lead modernization and migration initiatives, and govern architecture from discovery through implementation.

Architecture & Solution Design

Define end-to-end AWS solution architectures aligned with business goals, enterprise standards, and non-functional requirements.

Create current-state, target-state, integration, deployment, network, security, and data architecture views.

Select fit-for-purpose managed AWS services and define reusable architecture patterns.

Lead technical evaluations, architecture reviews, design decisions, and implementation guardrails.

AWS Platform Expertise

Design solutions using services such as EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, API Gateway, S3, RDS/Aurora, DynamoDB, CloudFront, Route 53, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, EventBridge, SQS, SNS, Glue, Athena, and Redshift.

Apply AWS Well-Architected principles across operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, and sustainability.

Migration & Modernization

Assess application portfolios and define migration or modernization strategies.

Develop cloud migration roadmaps, landing-zone requirements, dependency plans, and cutover considerations.

Guide refactoring toward microservices, containers, serverless, event-driven, and API-led architectures where appropriate.

Security, Governance & Cost

Embed security by design, least privilege, encryption, secrets management, auditability, and compliance controls.

Define governance guardrails, tagging, policy enforcement, service standards, and architecture decision records.

Drive cost transparency, sizing, consumption optimization, and architectural trade-off decisions.

DevOps & Automation

Define infrastructure-as-code and automated delivery approaches using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation or AWS CDK.

Guide CI/CD, environment promotion, observability, release, rollback, and operational-readiness practices.

Partner with engineering teams to automate repeatable provisioning and governance controls.

Required Skills

12+ years of IT industry experience with significant experience in cloud and solution architecture.

Deep hands‑on knowledge of AWS architecture, cloud-native patterns, networking, security, integration, data, and DevOps.

Experience delivering enterprise migration, modernization, or greenfield cloud programs.

Strong understanding of NFRs, architecture documentation, risk management, and technology governance.

Preferred Qualifications

AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional.

AWS specialty certification in Security, Networking, Data Analytics, or DevOps is advantageous.

TOGAF or equivalent architecture certification.

Manufacturing or automotive domain experience is an added advantage.