AWS Solutions Architect

Position Title:

AWS Solutions Architect

Location:

Gurugram

Objective of the position:

We are seeking an experienced AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional to design, architect, and lead the implementation of scalable, secure, and cost-efficient cloud solutions on AWS. The role involves translating business requirements into technical architecture, leading large-scale cloud transformation initiatives, and ensuring best practices across security, reliability, and performance.

Qualifications:

- Any Graduate/Postgraduate in Technology

- AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional (Mandatory)

- AWS Specialty Certifications (Security, Networking)

- Experience in large enterprise/cloud transformation projects

- Exposure to AI/ML-based architecture optimization

- Additional certifications in Azure and/or GCP are a plus

Soft Skills:

- Strong problem-solving and analytical thinking

- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills

- Ability to lead architecture discussions and mentor teams

- Strong documentation and presentation skills

Technical Skills:

- Deep hands-on experience in:

1. EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, RDS, Lambda

2. ECS/EKS, API Gateway, CloudFront

3. Route 53, ELB, Auto Scaling

4. CloudFormation / Terraform

- Architecture & Design:

1. Design of highly available, fault-tolerant, and scalable systems

- Experience in:

1. Microservices architecture

2. Serverless architecture

3. Event-driven systems

- Migration & Modernization:

1. Application migration (Rehost, Replatform, Refactor)

2. Data migration strategies

3. Legacy modernization

- Security & Compliance:

1. Strong knowledge of: IAM policies and roles, Network security (VPC, Security Groups, NACLs), Encryption (KMS, TLS)

2. Experience with compliance frameworks (ISO, SOC2, etc.)

- Cost Optimization & FinOps:

1. AWS Cost Explorer, Budgets

2. Savings Plans, Reserved Instances

3. Cost optimization strategies

- Monitoring & Observability:

1. CloudWatch, X-Ray

2. Logging and alerting strategies

3. Performance tuning

- Disaster Recovery & High Availability:

1. Design of DR strategies:

i. Active-Active / Active-Passive

ii. Multi-region deployments

iii. Strong understanding of RPO/RTO

- Multi-Cloud & Hybrid Cloud:

1. Exposure to Azure/GCP

2. Hybrid connectivity (VPN, Direct Connect)

Experience:

- 8 - 10 years in IT / Cloud Architecture

- Proven experience in:

1. Enterprise architecture design

2. AWS-based large-scale deployments

3. Cloud migration programs

Key Deliverables:

- End-to-end cloud architecture design documents

- Cloud migration strategy and execution roadmap

- High availability & DR architecture blueprint

- Cost optimization and governance frameworks

- Security architecture and compliance implementation

- Architecture review reports and best practices guidelines