AWS Cloud Architect
- Tanisha Systems Inc.
4 Hours Ago
NA
W2
Charlotte NC-NC
12-15 Years
Required Skills: Terraform, AWS Cloud, AWS EKS, ECS, Lambda, Fargate, EC2
Job Description
Key Responsibilities
1. Cloud Strategy & Architectural Design
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 |
