Cloud Architect

Job Description:

Architecture & Design

• Design and implement secure, scalable, and resilient AWS cloud architectures that align with business requirements across IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS models.
• Develop and maintain High Availability (HA), Redundancy, and Disaster Recovery (DR) strategies across multiple AWS Regions and Availability Zones.
• Provide architectural governance, best practices, and guidance for enterprise cloud modernization.
• Demonstrated expertise in designing distributed systems using microservices and event-driven architectures (e.g., EKS, Fargate, App Runner).

AWS Infrastructure Management

• Design and deploy AWS resources including VPCs, EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, S3, RDS/Aurora, DynamoDB, Elastic Load Balancers (ALB/NLB), CloudFront, Route 53, and NAT/Transit Gateway architectures.
• Manage Identity and Access Management (IAM), including policies, roles, permissions boundaries, Organizations SCPs, and federated identity integrations.
• Implement robust monitoring, alerting, and compliance enforcement using CloudWatch, CloudTrail, AWS Config, GuardDuty, Security Hub, and WAF.
• Hands-on experience with container services (ECS, EKS, Fargate) and image registries such as Amazon ECR.

Resilience and Business Continuity

• Define, implement, and test failover strategies, cross-region replication, multi-AZ deployments, and backup architectures for mission-critical workloads.
• Conduct Disaster Recovery drills, validate RPO/RTO objectives, and ensure adherence to regulatory, operational, and business continuity requirements.
• Implement solutions using AWS Backup, S3 Cross-Region Replication, RDS Multi-AZ, and Route 53 failover routing.

Security & Compliance

• Apply Zero-Trust principles and cloud security best practices across AWS environments.
• Enforce secure network segmentation, encryption (KMS), secrets management (Secrets Manager, Parameter Store), and policy-driven security controls.
• Implement compliance frameworks and continuous security posture assessments through Security Hub, IAM Access Analyzer, and Config Rules.

Observability

• Develop and implement comprehensive observability strategies across AWS workloads covering logs, metrics, traces, and user experience monitoring.
• Integrate AWS-native tools such as CloudWatch Metrics/Logs/Alarms, X-Ray, CloudTrail, AWS OpenSearch for log analytics, and Container Insights for ECS/EKS.
• Build dashboards and insights for DevOps, SRE, and operational teams to enhance performance visibility and reduce MTTR.

Required Skills and Experience

• 10–13 years of overall IT experience, including 5+ years as an AWS Cloud Architect.
• Strong hands-on expertise with AWS and hybrid architectures using Direct Connect, VPN.
• Proven proficiency in designing fault-tolerant, multi-AZ, and multi-region architectures with automated failover and DR capability.
• Extensive experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation.
• Solid background in DevOps practices, CI/CD automation (CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, GitHub Actions, Jenkins), and scripting with Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
• Practical experience with Kubernetes (EKS), ECS/Fargate, and container-based cloud deployments.
• Strong understanding of AWS networking, load balancing, WAF, API Gateway, CloudFront, and security patterns.
• Excellent analytical, documentation, stakeholder communication, and troubleshooting skills.

Certifications (Mandatory)

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

This role requires only Immediate Joiner.