AWS Lead Cloud Architect- Visa Independent

AWS Lead / Cloud Architect

Experience Required:
12-15 years overall IT experience
(5 years hands-on in AWS architecture solution design and cloud-native applications)

Role Overview:
We are seeking a highly experienced AWS Cloud Architect / Lead to design build and scale enterprise-grade cloud platforms and solutions.
The role requires deep technical expertise in AWS services infrastructure design DevOps practices and solution leadership across complex distributed systems.
The candidate will be responsible for driving cloud adoption modernization initiatives and ensuring performance reliability and cost efficiency across environments.

Key Responsibilities
Design and implement end-to-end cloud architectures leveraging AWS services (compute storage networking and serverless).
Lead cloud migration and modernization projects - from assessment to deployment.
Define architecture blueprints landing zones and reference models for application onboarding.
Ensure compliance with security IAM and governance standards across AWS accounts and workloads.
Optimize infrastructure for performance scalability and cost efficiency using best practices.
Work closely with developers DevOps and product teams to design microservices and event-driven architectures.
Establish and enforce CI/CD pipelines Infrastructure as Code (IaC) standards (Terraform / CloudFormation).
Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineering teams.
Define and monitor SLAs resiliency strategies and observability frameworks.
Collaborate with business stakeholders to align architecture decisions with strategic goals.
Technical Expertise

Core AWS Services:
EC2 ECS EKS Lambda API Gateway S3 CloudFront RDS DynamoDB SNS/SQS Step Functions CloudWatch CloudTrail IAM KMS Opensearch Kafka and Secrets Manager.
Architecture & Design:
Microservices and serverless architectures
Event-driven and asynchronous systems
High-availability and disaster recovery (multi-AZ / multi-region)
Networking (VPC design Transit Gateway Route 53 VPN Direct Connect)
DevOps / Automation:
IaC using Terraform CloudFormation or CDK
CI/CD using GitHub Actions Jenkins or AWS CodePipeline
Containerization and orchestration (Docker ECS EKS Fargate)
Monitoring & logging: CloudWatch Prometheus Grafana ELK/OpenSearch
Security & Governance:
IAM design policies and role-based access control
AWS Organizations Control Tower and Security Hub
Compliance (ISO SOC2 GDPR) awareness
Qualifications
Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Information Technology or related field
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional (preferred)
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer or Security Specialty (advantageous)
Proven experience in leading cloud architecture initiatives in mid/large enterprises

Soft Skills

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Excellent communication and stakeholder management
Team leadership and mentoring ability
Ability to balance technical depth with business pragmatism
Nice-to-Have

Experience integrating with SAP Salesforce or enterprise data platforms
Exposure to multi-cloud environments (Azure/GCP)
Experience with OpenSearch / Elastic Kafka / RabbitMQ or EventBridge