Job Description

Job Summary

We are seeking a Senior Solution Architect (AWS) to design, architect, and lead cloud-native solutions at scale. The role requires deep hands-on expertise in AWS, strong SRE and DevOps practices, and proven experience building highly available, secure, and automated platforms using microservices, serverless, and Kubernetes (EKS).

Key Responsibilities

Architecture & Design

• Design end-to-end AWS cloud architectures that are scalable, secure, resilient, and cost-optimized
• Define reference architectures for microservices, serverless, and containerized workloads
• Lead application modernization and cloud migration initiatives
• Perform architecture reviews and ensure alignment with AWS Well-Architected Framework

DevOps & SRE

Establish and enforce SRE best practices (SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, observability)

• Design and implement CI/CD pipelines for microservices and serverless workloads
• Improve system reliability, availability, and performance through automation
• Drive incident management, root cause analysis, and post-mortems

Containers & Serverless

• Architect and operate Amazon EKS clusters for production workloads
• Design microservices architectures using containers and service-to-service communication
• Build and scale serverless solutions using AWS Lambda, API Gateway, EventBridge, Step Functions
• Define service discovery, ingress, and traffic management strategies

Automation & Infrastructure

• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, CloudFormation, or CDK
• Automate provisioning, configuration, scaling, and recovery processes
• Optimize deployments using blue-green, canary, and rolling strategies

Security & Governance

• Architect secure solutions using IAM, VPC, security groups, WAF, KMS, Secrets Manager
• Enforce security best practices, compliance, and least-privilege access
• Integrate security into CI/CD pipelines (DevSecOps)

Leadership & Collaboration

• Act as a technical leader and mentor for engineering teams
• Collaborate with product, engineering, and business stakeholders
• Translate business requirements into technical solutions
• Support pre-sales, solution reviews, and technical decision-making

Skill Requirements

• 8–10 years of overall IT experience
• 5+ years of hands-on AWS cloud architecture experience
• Strong experience in production-grade systems at scale.

AWS & Cloud

• Deep knowledge of AWS services: EC2, VPC, ALB/NLB, RDS, DynamoDB, S3, CloudWatch, IAM
• Strong experience with serverless AWS services

DevOps & SRE

• CI/CD tools: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Argo CD, or similar
• Monitoring & observability: CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry
• Strong understanding of reliability engineering concepts

Containers & Microservices

• Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes (EKS)
• Microservices design patterns, API design, and event-driven architectures
• Experience with service mesh is a plus (Istio / App Mesh)

Automation & IaC

• Terraform / CloudFormation / AWS CDK
• Scripting: Bash, Python, or similar

Other Requirements

Preferred Qualifications

• AWS Certifications (Solutions Architect – Professional preferred)
• Experience with multi-account AWS landing zones
• Exposure to cost optimization and FinOps practices
• Experience in regulated or high-availability environments

Soft Skills

• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management
• Ability to work independently and lead complex initiatives
• Mentoring and technical leadership mindset