About the Role:

We are looking for an experienced AWS Solutions Architect to design, architect, and lead the implementation of scalable, secure, highly available, and cost-effective cloud solutions. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in AWS architecture, cloud migration, infrastructure modernization, security, and enterprise-scale cloud environments.

The role will involve working closely with engineering, security, DevOps, and business stakeholders to translate business and technical requirements into robust AWS solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

- Design and architect enterprise-grade solutions on AWS.

- Define cloud architecture, infrastructure, networking, security, scalability, availability, and disaster recovery strategies.

- Lead AWS cloud migration, modernization, and transformation initiatives.

- Design solutions using services such as EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, EKS/ECS, Lambda, CloudFront, Route 53, API Gateway, CloudWatch, KMS, and AWS Organizations.

- Develop and review High-Level Design (HLD) and Low-Level Design (LLD) documents.

- Establish cloud architecture standards, best practices, and governance.

- Design secure architectures aligned with enterprise security and compliance requirements.

- Work with DevOps/SRE teams on CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, automation, monitoring, and operational readiness.

- Evaluate existing infrastructure and recommend modernization and optimization opportunities.

- Drive cloud cost optimization, performance improvement, and resource efficiency.

- Provide technical leadership and architectural guidance to engineering teams.

- Participate in technical discussions with clients and stakeholders.

- Identify architectural risks and define appropriate mitigation strategies.

Required Skills & Experience:

- 12+ years of overall experience in IT/cloud infrastructure, with significant experience in AWS architecture.

- Strong experience designing and implementing enterprise AWS environments.

- Excellent understanding of AWS networking, security, IAM, compute, storage, databases, containers, serverless, and monitoring.

- Strong knowledge of VPC, subnets, routing, VPN, Direct Connect, Transit Gateway, Load Balancers, DNS, and network security.

- Experience with AWS Well-Architected Framework.

- Strong understanding of cloud security and identity management.

- Hands-on understanding of Terraform/Cloud Formation and Infrastructure as Code.

- Experience with containers and Kubernetes is preferred.

- Experience with cloud migration and hybrid/multi-cloud environments.

- Strong understanding of high availability, disaster recovery, backup, and business continuity.

- Excellent communication, documentation, stakeholder-management, and architectural decision-making skills.

Preferred Certifications:

- AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional

- AWS Certified Security - Specialty

- AWS Certified Advanced Networking - Specialty