Xebia - AWS/Cloud Native Architect

AWS/Cloud Native Architect Total Experience : 8 - 13 years Job Description : - Deep expertise designing and delivering end-to-end cloud solutions on AWS, from requirements gathering and architecture through development, deployment, operations, and production support. - Strong hands-on development experience with Python and Angular, with the ability to guide teams in building scalable, maintainable, and secure enterprise applications. - Expert understanding of modern application architectures including microservices, event-driven systems, serverless computing, APIs, distributed processing, and domain-driven design. - Extensive experience with AWS services including Lambda, ECS, EKS, EFS, API Gateway, S3, RDS, Aurora, SQS, SNS, EventBridge, Step Functions, CloudFront, IAM, and CloudWatch. - Ability to architect and implement event-driven solutions using messaging, queues, pub/sub patterns, asynchronous processing, and decoupled service architectures. - Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, including reusable modules, environment promotion, state management, security controls, and automated infrastructure provisioning. - Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and the complete software delivery lifecycle, including source control, build automation, testing, security scanning, artifact management, deployment automation, and production releases. - Able to define all development and infrastructure requirements necessary to move an application from developer workstation to production AWS environments. - Strong understanding of the handoff points between development, DevOps, cloud engineering, security, networking, infrastructure, and support organizations. - Ability to identify and document technical dependencies, prerequisites, environment requirements, operational readiness criteria, and deployment sequencing. - Experience defining non-functional requirements including scalability, resiliency, security, observability, availability, recoverability, performance, and compliance. - Ability to perform architecture reviews, application assessments, cloud readiness evaluations, and modernization planning. - Partner effectively with business stakeholders, product owners, architects, developers, QA teams, infrastructure engineers, security teams, and support organizations. - Lead solution technical planning sessions, architecture reviews, and cross-functional delivery teams. - Strong communication, organization, facilitation, and executive presentation skills with the ability to translate technical concepts into business outcomes. - Ability to drive accountability, coordinate multiple teams, remove delivery blockers, and ensure successful execution from concept through production deployment. - Serve as the technical owner of the solution lifecycle, ensuring architectural integrity, operational readiness, supportability, and long-term maintainability. - Proven track record delivering large-scale enterprise solutions while balancing delivery timelines, technical debt, security requirements, operational risk, and business objectives.