Principal AWS Cloud Architect

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Requirements:

• 10+ years of experience in designing, building, and managing cloud architectures, with a strong focus on AWS.
• Extensive expertise with core AWS services, including EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, Lambda, IAM, ECS, EKS, and API Gateway.
• 7+ years of deep experience with Kubernetes, including multi-cluster management, scaling strategies, and security best practices.
• Mastery of Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools, particularly Terraform and CloudFormation, with experience in large-scale automation and governance.
• Proven track record in architecting, implementing, and optimizing CI/CD pipelines with tools like GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, ArgoCD, or Spinnaker.
• Expert-level proficiency in Git and modern source control strategies, including branching models, code reviews, and GitOps workflows.
• Extensive knowledge of microservices architecture, including development, deployment, service discovery, and monitoring strategies.
• Advanced expertise in observability, including monitoring, logging, and tracing using Prometheus, Grafana, AWS CloudWatch, Datadog, OpenTelemetry, or similar solutions.
• Strong background in performance engineering, including analyzing system bottlenecks, optimizing cloud resources, and improving system reliability.
• Deep understanding of container orchestration, including security hardening, network policies, and automated scaling.
• Comprehensive knowledge of security best practices, identity and access management, encryption, disaster recovery, and failover strategies.
• Extensive scripting and automation experience with Python, Bash, or Go, including serverless and event-driven architectures.
• Demonstrated leadership in guiding technical teams, mentoring engineers, and driving best practices in cloud architecture and DevOps.

Responsibilities:

• Oversee, guide, and mentor a distributed team of developers and architects, providing strategic direction on AWS infrastructure and cloud-native solutions.
• Define and implement high-level architectures that facilitate enterprise IT transformation, ensuring seamless integration of essential infrastructure components.
• Collaborate directly with component and support teams, you will establish a clear vision for cloud adoption and cloud strategies.
• Evaluate solution-level architectures, recommend best practices for cloud and infrastructure modernization, and ensure alignment with organizational objectives.
• Conduct in-depth analyses of IT requirements and transition planning while developing architectural baselines for scalable, secure, and cost-efficient cloud solutions.
• Formulate integration plans, migration strategies, and modernization roadmaps, as well as researching emerging technologies to optimize infrastructure costs, operations, and maintenance.