AWS Solution Architect - Cloud Infrastructure

About the Role: We are looking for an experienced AWS Solutions Architect to design, architect, and lead the implementation of scalable, secure, highly available, and cost-effective cloud solutions. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in AWS architecture, cloud migration, infrastructure modernization, security, and enterprise-scale cloud environments. The role will involve working closely with engineering, security, DevOps, and business stakeholders to translate business and technical requirements into robust AWS solutions. Key Responsibilities: - Design and architect enterprise-grade solutions on AWS. - Define cloud architecture, infrastructure, networking, security, scalability, availability, and disaster recovery strategies. - Lead AWS cloud migration, modernization, and transformation initiatives. - Design solutions using services such as EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, EKS/ECS, Lambda, CloudFront, Route 53, API Gateway, CloudWatch, KMS, and AWS Organizations. - Develop and review High-Level Design (HLD) and Low-Level Design (LLD) documents. - Establish cloud architecture standards, best practices, and governance. - Design secure architectures aligned with enterprise security and compliance requirements. - Work with DevOps/SRE teams on CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, automation, monitoring, and operational readiness. - Evaluate existing infrastructure and recommend modernization and optimization opportunities. - Drive cloud cost optimization, performance improvement, and resource efficiency. - Provide technical leadership and architectural guidance to engineering teams. - Participate in technical discussions with clients and stakeholders. - Identify architectural risks and define appropriate mitigation strategies. Required Skills & Experience: - 12+ years of overall experience in IT/cloud infrastructure, with significant experience in AWS architecture. - Strong experience designing and implementing enterprise AWS environments. - Excellent understanding of AWS networking, security, IAM, compute, storage, databases, containers, serverless, and monitoring. - Strong knowledge of VPC, subnets, routing, VPN, Direct Connect, Transit Gateway, Load Balancers, DNS, and network security. - Experience with AWS Well-Architected Framework. - Strong understanding of cloud security and identity management. - Hands-on understanding of Terraform/Cloud Formation and Infrastructure as Code. - Experience with containers and Kubernetes is preferred. - Experience with cloud migration and hybrid/multi-cloud environments. - Strong understanding of high availability, disaster recovery, backup, and business continuity. - Excellent communication, documentation, stakeholder-management, and architectural decision-making skills. Preferred Certifications: - AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional - AWS Certified Security - Specialty - AWS Certified Advanced Networking - Specialty