Senior Cloud Architect: Enterprise-Scale AWS

Appnovation; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Appnovation is seeking a Cloud Solutions Architect to scale our platform for tens of thousands of users on AWS, applying best practices in multi-region design and security. You will craft caching, federation strategies, and performance frameworks while guiding engineering teams to reliable, observable deployments.

You'll collaborate with product and security stakeholders in a fast-paced consulting environment, delivering scalable, cost-aware architectures and governance across enterprise-grade

Qualifications

• 8+ years in engineering with 3+ years in architecture.
• Senior cloud architecture experience on AWS; certification preferred.
• Experience designing high-scale, low-latency, multi-region distributed systems.
• Caching strategies, data federation, and performance/load testing.
• Security architecture with RBAC/ABAC.
• Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform/CloudFormation) and containerization.
• Strong grasp of networking, IAM, cost optimization, and observability tooling.
• Ability to work within an enterprise engineering lifecycle and hit the ground running.
• Excellent stakeholder communication and technical leadership skills.

Responsibilities

• Architect platform for enterprise scale (tens of thousands of users) on AWS.
• Evaluate scalability of the Postgres/Supabase backend; design caching tiers, multi-region and global federation.
• Own load-testing strategy and responsiveness targets across geographies.
• Ensure architecture meets security and access-control needs for sensitive content.
• Produce architecture diagrams, decision records, and technical standards.
• Guide and mentor engineers on cloud best practices and patterns.
• Define non-functional requirements (availability, resilience, cost, observability).
• Partner with security and compliance to meet enterprise controls.
• Support build-vs-buy decisions and technology evaluations.

Skills

AWS

Distributed systems

RBAC/ABAC

Security architecture

IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation)

Containerization

Networking/IAM

Leadership

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform/CloudFormation

Docker/Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

AWS Console

Job description

Appnovation is seeking a Cloud Solutions Architect to scale our platform for tens of thousands of users on AWS, applying best practices in multi-region design and security. You will craft caching, federation strategies, and performance frameworks while guiding engineering teams to reliable, observable deployments.

You'll collaborate with product and security stakeholders in a fast-paced consulting environment, delivering scalable, cost-aware architectures and governance across enterprise-grade