AWS Solution Architect - Cloud Infrastructure

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