Senior AWS Solution Architect (Modernisation)
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Job Location:
Cape Town - South Africa
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
13 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Up to 1.58 million RAND
Recognised as AWSs Rising Star Partner of the Year for 2023 in EMEA and 2022 in the UK&I were expanding globally with new offices in Australia South Africa Singapore and Dubai a strong presence in the Philippines and our HQ in the UK.
Weve managed hundreds of cloud migrations architectural projects cost optimisations and support services for a diverse range of customers from start-ups to public sector organisations.
As an AWS Premier Partner we enhance IT experiences for clients across various sectors. If youre ready to make a difference and join an exciting journey with Cloud Bridge and AWS we want to hear from you.
As a Senior AWS Solution Architect (Modernisation) youll work with customers to modernise legacy applications and databases as they migrate to AWS. You will be a technical authority in designing and delivering cloud-native architectures serverless solutions application and database modernisation strategies. This role combines hands-on technical work customer consulting and practice development helping us define and scale modernisation offerings.
Key Responsibilities
Customer Engagement & Solution Design
Engage with customers to understand their legacy application and database environments.
Define modernisation strategies focusing on database migration re-platforming and serverless adoption.
Design AWS architectures that are scalable secure and cost-optimised.
Act as a trusted advisor providing technical leadership to both internal teams and customers.
Database Modernisation & Migration
Lead modernisation efforts for SQL Server Oracle MySQL PostgreSQL and NoSQL databases.
Drive migrations using AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) Schema Conversion Tool (SCT) and Babelfish for Aurora.
Implement Amazon RDS Aurora DynamoDB and ElastiCache to replace legacy databases.
Optimise database performance through sharding partitioning and caching strategies.
Cloud-Native & Serverless Adoption
Architect solutions leveraging AWS Lambda API Gateway Step Functions and EventBridge.
Support customers in breaking down monolithic applications into microservices.
Define event-driven and asynchronous processing patterns to improve scalability.
Infrastructure as Code & DevOps
Automate database deployments using Terraform AWS CloudFormation and AWS CDK.
Integrate database changes into CI/CD pipelines using tools like Flyway or Liquibase.
Define observability and monitoring strategies using CloudWatch X-Ray and Prometheus.
Practice & Team Development
Contribute to the development of modernisation frameworks methodologies and best practices.
Help shape packaged offerings including AWS MAP-funded modernisation engagements.
Mentor junior architects and engineers fostering a high-performance technical culture.
Required Skills & Experience
Technical Expertise
AWS Database Services RDS (PostgreSQL/MySQL/SQL Server) Aurora DynamoDB ElastiCache.
Database Migration Experience with AWS DMS SCT and heterogeneous migrations.
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Terraform CloudFormation CDK.
Cloud-Native & Serverless AWS Lambda Step Functions API Gateway ventBridge.
DevOps & CI/CD GitHub Actions AWS CodePipeline database schema versioning (Flyway/Liquibase).
AI-Powered development experience
Security & Compliance IAM KMS Secrets Manager AWS Backup GDPR considerations.
Performance Tuning & Optimisation Query tuning indexing caching connection pooling.
Consulting & Leadership Skills
Proven experience in customer-facing solution architecture or technical consulting.
Strong ability to communicate complex technical concepts to business and technical stakeholders.
Experience leading technical teams and mentoring engineers.
Ability to define modernisation roadmaps and business cases.
Desirable Skills (Nice-to-Have)
Experience with Redshift Neptune Timestream or other AWS data services.
Knowledge of multi-cloud (GCP/Azure) and hybrid cloud environments.
Familiarity with machine learning & analytics pipelines on AWS.
Experience working on AWS MAP-funded modernisation projects.
Benefits
25 Days Paid Time-off
Birthday Leave
Company Bonus Scheme
Flexible Working
Early Friday Finish (Monthly)
Company Laptop and Peripherals
Company Sabbatical Scheme
Personalised Training & Development Plan
Annual Wellness Allowance
Company Events
Private Health Insurance
Wellbeing support
Mental Health Champions
Calm app subscription
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About Company
Recognised as AWSs Rising Star Partner of the Year for 2023 in EMEA and 2022 in the UK&I were expanding globally with new offices in South Africa and Dubai a strong presence in the Philippines and our HQ in the UK.If youre ready to join a high-growth AWS partner and take your career t ... View more
