AWS Solution Architect

Job Description :

Role & Responsibilities :

- Design, develop, and implement scalable, secure, highly available, and cost-effective cloud solutions on AWS.

- Own the end-to-end architecture of cloud applications, including compute, storage, networking, databases, security, monitoring, and disaster recovery.

- Translate business and technical requirements into AWS cloud architecture and solution designs.

- Lead cloud migration, modernization, and transformation initiatives from on-premises or other cloud platforms to AWS.

- Develop architecture diagrams, technical specifications, solution proposals, and implementation roadmaps.

- Work closely with application development, DevOps, security, infrastructure, and business teams to ensure successful solution delivery.

- Establish and enforce AWS architecture best practices, security standards, governance, and operational guidelines.

- Design solutions using services such as EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, S3, RDS/Aurora, DynamoDB, VPC, IAM, CloudFront, Route 53, API Gateway, SQS/SNS, and other AWS services.

- Implement and promote Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar technologies.

- Optimize cloud environments for performance, reliability, scalability, and cost.

- Design and implement high-availability, backup, business continuity, and disaster recovery strategies.

- Identify technical risks and dependencies and provide appropriate mitigation strategies.

Preferred Candidate Profile :

- 8 - 10 years of overall IT experience, with significant hands-on experience in cloud architecture and AWS.

- Strong experience designing and implementing production-grade AWS solutions.

- AWS certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate/Professional are preferred.

- Strong understanding of AWS Well-Architected Framework and cloud architecture principles.

- Hands-on experience with AWS networking, including VPC, subnets, routing, NAT, Transit Gateway, VPN, Direct Connect, load balancers, and Route 53.

- Strong knowledge of cloud security, including IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager, security groups, WAF, encryption, logging, and compliance.

- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes/EKS and modern container-based architectures.

- Good understanding of DevOps and CI/CD practices using tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or AWS CodePipeline.

- Experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, or other Infrastructure-as-Code tools.

- Strong understanding of databases, including relational and NoSQL technologies such as RDS/Aurora, PostgreSQL/MySQL, DynamoDB, and Redis.

- Experience designing microservices, serverless, event-driven, and API-based architectures.

- Understanding of observability and monitoring using CloudWatch, CloudTrail, AWS Config, and third-party monitoring platforms.

- Experience with cloud cost optimization, capacity planning, performance tuning, and FinOps principles.

Skills

AWS, Cloud Infrastructure, Cloud Migration, On-Premises, AWS Lambda, IAC Terraform, CloudFormation, Docker, Kubernetes, Cloud Cost Optimization, Solution Architect