AWS Cloud Architect

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This is Vishal Tyagi from Programmers.IO. I came across your profile and found to be an excellent match for an urgent Requirement “AWS Cloud Architect” Role with our Client is Wipro and location is Charlotte, NC (Onsite).The managers are working fast and looking forward to having a successful candidate on board at the earliest.

Title:- AWS Cloud Architect

Location:- Charlotte, NC (Onsite)

Type:- Full Time only

Job Description:-

Role Overview:-

As an AWS Cloud Architect, you will serve as the strategic visionary and technical leader responsible for designing, developing, and overseeing the organization's entire cloud computing ecosystem. This role blends advanced technical mastery of Amazon Web Services (AWS) with strategic business acumen to transform legacy workloads into scalable, resilient, highly secure, and cost-optimized cloud-native environments. You will lead cloud migration strategies, establish governance frameworks, and collaborate with key stakeholders to align our cloud roadmap with overall business objectives.

Key Responsibilities

1. Cloud Strategy & Architectural Design

Blueprint Creation: Design end-to-end cloud architectures that prioritize high availability, fault tolerance, and seamless disaster recovery (DR) capabilities.Migration Strategy: Lead complex cloud migration efforts, formulating robust strategies (e.g., re-platforming, re-architecting) to securely transition legacy on-premises applications and big data systems to AWS.Strategic Roadmap: Create and govern cloud adoption roadmaps, establishing standards for containerization, serverless architectures, and API management across the enterprise.2. Security, Compliance & Governance

Secure by Design: Establish secure cloud landing zones using AWS Control Tower, Organizations, and IAM Identity Center, enforcing strict, least-privilege security boundaries.Compliance Standards: Design network security frameworks (VPCs, firewalls, transit gateways) and encryption standards (KMS, CloudHSM) that comply with global regulatory standards (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA, SOC 2, NIST).3. FinOps & Platform Optimization

Cost Optimization: Conduct architectural reviews (using the AWS Well-Architected Framework) to optimize cloud resources, reduce operational spend, and model cloud budgets.Performance Engineering: Establish baseline metrics for monitoring and telemetry, designing auto-scaling policies and optimizing global content delivery (CloudFront, Global Accelerator).4. Technical Leadership & Collaboration

Technical Mentorship: Act as the primary technical advisor to engineering, DevOps, and database teams, helping translate architectural blueprints into functional code.Stakeholder Alignment: Confidently present cloud strategies, cost projections, and technical roadmaps to C-level executives and non-technical stakeholders.

Required Technical Skills

Category

Key Architectures & AWS Services

Compute & Serverless

AWS EKS, ECS, Lambda, Fargate, EC2

Data & Storage Systems

Amazon S3, EFS, DynamoDB, Aurora RDS, Redshift, AWS Glue, EMR

Enterprise Integration

AWS Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, Api Gateway, EventBridge, SQS

Security & Governance

IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager, CloudTrail, AWS Config, Control Tower, GuardDuty

Automation & IaC

Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Ansible

Monitoring & Telemetry

AWS CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana

Qualifications & Experience:-

Professional Experience: 12+ years in IT/Software Engineering, with at least 5+ years of dedicated experience architecting large-scale enterprise AWS systems.Cloud Migration Expertise: Proven track record of successfully migrating large databases and monolithic systems into microservice/containerized AWS environments.Deep IaC Mastery: Extensive experience defining multi-account environments using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or CloudFormation).Communication & Soft Skills: Outstanding written and verbal communication skills; proven ability to facilitate workshops, resolve architectural debates, and mentor senior engineering staff.

Thanks!

Vishal Tyagi

[email protected]