Position : Lead / Senior AWS Solution Architect

Overall/Total Experience : 10-15 years only

Location : Bengaluru

Working Days : 5 Days Working from office

Notice Period Requirement : 30 Days (Maximum)

Client's Company Size : Startup / Small Enterprise

Roles & Responsibilities :

1. Pre-Sales & Customer Engagement :

- Lead initial discovery calls with prospective and existing customers to understand business needs, current infrastructure, and cloud goals.

- Translate business requirements into technical solutions and cloud strategy.

- Prepare Statements of Work (SOW), Level of Effort (LOE), and cost estimates for AWS projects (migration, greenfield builds, modernization, managed services).

- Own the proposal and pitch process for AWS engagements, including RFP/RFI responses.

2. Architecture & Solutioning :

- Design secure, scalable, cost-optimized AWS architectures (Well-Architected Framework aligned) across compute, storage, networking, database, containers, serverless, and security domains.

- Create architecture diagrams, HLD/LLD documents, and migration/implementation plans.

- Evaluate and recommend the right mix of AWS services for a given use case (cost vs. performance vs. complexity trade-offs).

- Conduct architecture reviews and Well-Architected Framework Reviews (WAFR) for existing customer workloads.

3. Migration & Implementation :

- Plan and execute cloud migrations (rehost, replatform, refactor) using AWS-native and third-party tools (e.g., AWS MGN, DMS, Migration Hub).

- Lead implementation of new AWS environments landing zones, networking (VPC, Direct Connect, Transit Gateway), IAM, security baseline, CI/CD pipelines, and workload deployment.

- Ensure infrastructure is built using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform / CloudFormation / CDK) and follows DevOps best practices.

- Own project delivery timelines, technical risk management, and quality of implementation.

4. Operations, Support & Escalation Management :

- Act as the final technical escalation point for critical/complex issues raised by customers or internal team members.

- Define and oversee incident management, RCA (Root Cause Analysis), and post-mortem processes for AWS-managed environments.

- Set up and refine monitoring, alerting, cost governance, and security compliance practices across managed AWS accounts.

- Own SLAs for support/managed services engagements.

5. AWS Partnership & Practice Management :

- Own and maintain our organization's AWS Partner relationship partner tier requirements, certifications, competencies, and partner funding/programs (MAP, POA, etc., where applicable).

- Track and help the organization achieve/maintain AWS Partner competencies (e.g., Migration, DevOps, Well-Architected).

- Liaise with AWS Partner Development Manager (PDM) / AWS account teams for co-sell opportunities, funding programs, and technical enablement.

- Keep the practice updated on new AWS services, pricing changes, and best practices.

6. Team Leadership :

- Build, lead, and mentor the AWS engineering/architecture team (Cloud Engineers, DevOps Engineers, Support Engineers).

- Define technical standards, coding/IaC guidelines, and delivery methodology for the AWS practice.

- Conduct technical interviews and contribute to hiring for the AWS team.

- Own resource planning and capacity allocation across ongoing customer engagements.

Candidate Requirements :

- Must have 10+ years of overall experience in IT Infrastructure, Cloud Engineering, Cloud Architecture, DevOps, or Enterprise Cloud Solutions.

- Must have 8+ years of hands-on experience as an AWS Solutions Architect, AWS Cloud Architect, or AWS Technical Lead, designing and delivering enterprise-scale AWS solutions.

- Must have end-to-end ownership of AWS engagements, including pre-sales discovery, solution architecture, effort estimation (LOE), SOW preparation, implementation, cloud migration, delivery, and post-production support/escalation management.

- Must have expertise in designing secure, scalable, and cost-optimized AWS architectures using core AWS services including EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, VPC, Direct Connect, Transit Gateway, Route 53, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, Aurora, IAM, KMS, GuardDuty, Security Hub, and AWS Config.

- Must have experience leading AWS cloud migration and modernization projects using AWS Migration Hub, AWS MGN, AWS DMS, along with implementing AWS Landing Zones, networking, IAM, security, and production workloads.

- Must have experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or AWS CDK) and CI/CD pipelines using tools such as CodePipeline, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or DevOps platforms.