Senior AWS Modernisation Architect – Data & Serverless

Cloud Bridge; South Africa; Hybrid; ZAR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 Days Paid Time-off

Birthday Leave

Company Bonus Scheme

Flexible Working

Early Friday Finish (Monthly)

Company Laptop and Peripherals

Company Sabbatical Scheme

Personalised Training & Development计划

Job summary

Cloud Bridge is seeking a Senior AWS Solution Architect to lead modernisation of legacy apps and databases as clients migrate to AWS. You will design cloud-native architectures, serverless solutions, and modernisation strategies, combining hands-on work with customer consulting and practice development.

You will mentor engineers, shape offerings, and drive packaged modernisation engagements while ensuring scalable, secure, and cost-optimised solutions.

Qualifications

• Must have customer-facing solution architecture or technical consulting experience.
• Strong ability to communicate complex technical concepts to business and technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Engage with customers to understand legacy environments and define modernisation strategies.
• Design scalable, secure AWS architectures with a focus on database migration and serverless adoption.
• Lead migrations using AWS DMS, SCT, and Babelfish for Aurora; implement RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, and ElastiCache.
• Architect serverless and event-driven patterns using Lambda, API Gateway, Step Functions, and EventBridge.
• Automate deployments with Terraform, CloudFormation, and CDK; integrate changes into CI/CD pipelines.
• Mentor junior architects and engineers; help shape modernisation frameworks and offerings.

Skills

AWS architecture

Consulting experience

Leadership & mentoring

Solution design & roadmaps

Stakeholder communication

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

CDK

AWS Lambda

API Gateway

Step Functions

GitHub Actions

CodePipeline

DMS

SCT

Babelfish for Aurora

IAM

KMS

Secrets Manager

CloudWatch

X‑Ray

Prometheus

Job description

Cloud Bridge is seeking a Senior AWS Solution Architect to lead modernisation of legacy apps and databases as clients migrate to AWS. You will design cloud-native architectures, serverless solutions, and modernisation strategies, combining hands-on work with customer consulting and practice development.

You will mentor engineers, shape offerings, and drive packaged modernisation engagements while ensuring scalable, secure, and cost-optimised solutions.