Senior Technical Architect - AWS / CloudFront

Job Title: Senior Technical Architect - AWS / CloudFront

Experience: 12+ Years
Level: Senior Consultant (L6)
Location: Hyderabad
Work Mode: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full-Time
Certification: AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional (Mandatory).

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Key Responsibilities

Technical Architecture & Ownership

• Own the technical scope and architecture for the complete migration engagement.
• Lead technical activities from initial assessment through production cutover.
• Define target-state AWS architecture and migration strategy.
• Develop phased migration and cutover approaches.
• Drive major technical decisions across networking, security, edge delivery, and bot management.

AWS Architecture

• Design and govern multi-account AWS environments.
• Establish IAM, least-privilege access, security baselines, tagging, and governance.
• Ensure adherence to AWS Well-Architected Framework principles.
• Architect solutions using CloudFront, WAF, Shield, GuardDuty, Lambda@Edge, Route 53, ALB, S3, ACM, Athena, and QuickSight.

Akamai-to-AWS Migration

• Assess existing Akamai properties and define AWS target architecture.
• Analyze and map Akamai:
  • Property Manager
  • Kona Site Defender
  • Bot Manager Premium
  • EdgeWorkers / EdgeKV
  • GTM
• Define equivalent or improved AWS implementations.
• Lead migration baselining, technical validation, and production cutover.

AWS WAF & Bot Management

• Architect AWS WAF managed and custom security rules.
• Design rate-based rules, IP sets, bot-management controls, and origin protection.
• Define security strategies for application and API traffic.
• Architect solutions for bot detection, behavioral risk, account protection, and adaptive challenges.

Custom Edge Solutions

• Design custom solutions where there is no direct AWS equivalent for an existing Akamai capability.
• Architect edge-computing solutions using CloudFront Functions and Lambda@Edge.
• Provide technical direction for Node.js-based edge solutions.

Networking & Security

• Provide architecture leadership for VPC, routing, DNS, Route 53, TLS/mTLS, ACM, CIDR, and edge-to-origin connectivity.
• Ensure security, resiliency, scalability, and performance requirements are met.

Observability & Dashboards

• Define the overall observability strategy.
• Design CloudWatch, QuickSight, S3 access logging, and Athena-based monitoring solutions.
• Define dashboards covering traffic, caching, origin latency, WAF activity, bot activity, and failover.

Technical Governance

• Lead and mentor DevOps and specialist engineering teams.
• Review architecture and implementation deliverables.
• Resolve technical escalations and remove technical blockers.
• Ensure quality at each project phase gate.
• Maintain architecture decisions and technical decision registers.

Migration Runbooks

• Develop reusable migration runbooks and playbooks.
• Establish repeatable technical processes for customer adoption.
• Ensure knowledge transfer and technical documentation are completed.

Required Skills

• 12+ years of experience in Cloud / Infrastructure / Solution Architecture.
• Mandatory AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional certification.
• Extensive AWS architecture experience.
• Strong hands-on expertise with AWS CloudFront and AWS WAF.
• Strong knowledge of AWS Shield, GuardDuty, Lambda@Edge, CloudFront Functions, Route 53, ALB, S3, ACM, Athena, and QuickSight.
• Deep networking knowledge including DNS, routing, TLS/mTLS, CIDR, and origin connectivity.
• Strong security and bot-management expertise.
• Strong experience with Akamai technologies.
• Proven experience in Akamai-to-AWS CloudFront/WAF migration.
• Experience designing custom edge solutions using Node.js.
• Strong knowledge of Terraform and cloud automation.
• Experience leading technical teams and large-scale cloud migration programs.

Preferred Experience:

• Akamai Property Manager
• Akamai Kona Site Defender
• Akamai Bot Manager Premium
• Akamai EdgeWorkers / EdgeKV
• AWS CloudFront
• AWS WAF
• AWS Shield
• AWS GuardDuty
• HCP Terraform
• CloudWatch / QuickSight / Athena
• Large-scale CDN and edge migration projects

Education

Bachelor s or Master s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related technical discipline preferred.