AWS Cloud Solutions Architect

About the position

We are seeking a highly skilled AWS Cloud Solutions Architect to design, implement, and manage scalable, secure, and high-performance cloud solutions on Amazon Web Services (AWS). The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in AWS cloud architecture, infrastructure automation, and security best practices. You will play a key role in developing cloud strategies, optimizing AWS workloads, and ensuring cost-effective solutions that align with business objectives.

Responsibilities

• Architect and implement highly available, fault-tolerant AWS solutions that support business applications and services.
• Design and build secure AWS network architectures including VPCs, subnets, security groups, and VPNs.
• Develop and optimize AWS-based microservices, serverless architectures, and containerized solutions (ECS, EKS, Lambda).
• Ensure solutions adhere to the AWS Well-Architected Framework, emphasizing security, reliability, and cost-efficiency.
• Work with development teams to ensure that good technology choices are made for long term operational ownership and stability.
• Implement Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or AWS CDK.
• Automate provisioning, configuration management, and deployments using AWS Systems Manager, Ansible, Python, Go, or CI/CD pipelines.
• Leverage AWS Lambda, Step Functions, and EventBridge to build serverless automation solutions.
• Design and implement AWS observability solutions using AWS-native and third-party tools to ensure system reliability and performance.
• Deploy and configure AWS CloudWatch for metrics, logs, and alarms to proactively monitor cloud environments.
• Implement distributed tracing and log aggregation using AWS X-Ray, CloudWatch Logs, and Amazon OpenSearch Service.
• Configure and manage AWS CloudTrail for auditing and security monitoring.
• Develop automated alerting and incident response mechanisms.
• Optimize dashboards and reporting using Amazon Managed Grafana, CloudWatch Dashboards, and Prometheus.
• Design observability solutions using 3rd party tooling including Splunk, Datadog and Coralogix.
• Continuously monitor and optimize AWS workloads for performance and cost efficiency using AWS Cost Explorer, Trusted Advisor, and Auto Scaling.
• Implement AWS Savings Plans, Reserved Instances, and Spot Instances for cost optimization.
• Leverage AWS CloudWatch, AWS X-Ray, and AWS CloudTrail for monitoring, logging, and troubleshooting.

Requirements

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in AWS cloud architecture, infrastructure, and services.
• In-depth knowledge of AWS compute, storage, networking, and security services (EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, IAM, Route 53, CloudFront).
• Expertise in Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools like Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or AWS CDK.
• Strong understanding of DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and automation (AWS CodePipeline, GitHub Actions, Jenkins).
• Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, ECS, EKS, Fargate).
• Proficiency in scripting and automation using Python, Bash, or AWS SDKs.
• Strong knowledge of AWS security and compliance best practices.
• Ability to troubleshoot and optimize AWS workloads and cost structures.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Read, understand and make suggested improvements to code implementations in Java, C# and Python.

Nice-to-haves

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional (strongly preferred).
• Additional AWS certifications (AWS DevOps Engineer, AWS Security Specialty, AWS Advanced Networking).
• Experience with hybrid cloud and multi-cloud architectures.
• Hands-on experience with serverless application development using AWS Lambda, API Gateway, and DynamoDB.
• Knowledge of AI/ML services on AWS (SageMaker, Rekognition, Comprehend, Bedrock etc.) is a plus.

Benefits

• Comprehensive, multi-carrier program for medical, dental and vision benefits.
• 401(k) with match and an Employee Share Purchase Plan.
• Wellness platform with incentives, Headspace app subscription, Employee Assistance and Time-off Programs.
• Short-and-Long Term Disability, Life and Accidental Death Insurance, Critical Illness, and Hospital Indemnity.
• Family Benefits, including bonding and family care leaves, adoption and surrogacy benefits.
• Health Savings, Health Care, Dependent Care and Commuter Spending Accounts.
• Up to two days of paid leave each to participate in Employee Resource Groups and to volunteer with your charity of choice.