Cloud Architect

System Soft Technologies; New York (NY); On-site; USD 130,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

System Soft Technologies is seeking an AWS Cloud Architect to design scalable cloud architectures, assess application readiness for cloud adoption, and produce comprehensive architectural documentation and governance models. The role focuses on AWS compute, storage, and serverless services while aligning with security policies and regulatory compliance.

A strong emphasis on hybrid networking and disaster recovery is included.

Qualifications

• Develop scalable, resilient, cost-efficient cloud architectures aligned with cybersecurity policies.
• Evaluate apps for cloud readiness and create migration strategies.
• Produce architectural docs and cloud governance models with implementation playbooks.

Responsibilities

• Develop cloud architectures that are scalable, resilient, cost efficient, and secure, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and established cybersecurity policies.
• Evaluate applications to determine their readiness and suitability for cloud adoption and create detailed migration strategies and roadmaps.
• Produce clear and comprehensive architectural documentation—including Microsoft Visio diagrams—as well as cloud governance models, technical standards, and implementation playbooks.

Skills

Cloud architecture

AWS

Security governance

DR planning

Network design

Azure serverless

Hybrid networking

Tools

Microsoft Visio

Job description

Job Qualifications and Responsibilities for AWS Cloud Architect

• Develop cloud architectures that are scalable, resilient, cost efficient, and secure, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and established cybersecurity policies.
• Evaluate applications to determine their readiness and suitability for cloud adoption and create detailed migration strategies and roadmaps.
• Produce clear and comprehensive architectural documentation—including Microsoft Visio diagrams—as well as cloud governance models, technical standards, and implementation playbooks.

Strong understanding of:

• AWS Compute (EC2, Instance Auto Scaling, Batch)
• AWS Storage (S3, EBS, Batch Operations, Tiers, Intelligent Tiering, Lifecycle Policies)
• Serverless services (Fargate, Lambda)
• Serverless services (Azure Functions, Web App, App Services, ASE, Logic Apps, etc.)
• Implementing disaster recovery (DR) and backup strategies aligned with regulatory compliance (RTO/RPO).
• Strong understanding of VPC design, vNet design, Hub & Spoke, Transit Gateway, Peering, Application Load Balancers, Application Gateway, Network Load Balancers, Traffic Manager, VPNs, Direct Connect, ExpressRoute, and hybrid networking.
• Implement cloud security best practices (IAM, RBAC, WAF, Security Groups, NACLs, CloudTrail, GuardDuty, Secrets Manager, NSG, ASG, Service Principals, Managed Identities, Azure Advisor, Defender for Cloud, Key Vault, encryption, monitoring).