AWS Solution Architect / AWS SME
Role Overview:
We are seeking an experienced AWS Solution Architect / Subject Matter Expert (SME) with strong delivery experience in the AWS and DevOps domain. The candidate should have a proven track record of delivering complex cloud transformation, migration, and modernization projects. The role requires acting as a technical authority, working closely with customers, internal delivery teams, and AWS stakeholders to design and implement scalable, secure, and cost-optimized cloud solutions.
Key Responsibilities:
- Act as an AWS SME designing scalable, secure, and cost-optimized architectures using AWS services such as EC2, VPC, S3, RDS, Lambda, ECS/EKS, and related services.
- Provide L3/L4 architectural guidance and technical leadership to engineering and delivery teams.
- Communicate effectively with multiple customers and AWS stakeholders on a daily basis.
- Lead technical discovery sessions and translate business and non-functional requirements into solution architectures, HLDs, LLDs, migration roadmaps, and implementation plans aligned with the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
- Design DevOps-first architectures using CI/CD tools including CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, GitHub/GitLab, Terraform, CloudFormation, and CDK.
- Act as the primary technical interface with AWS, including Partner Development Managers (PDMs), AWS Solution Architects, and service teams.
- Ownership of technical delivery and should have delivered complex projects along with customer interfacing skills
- Mentor delivery teams and support architecture governance, design reviews, and technical decision-making.
Qualification Criteria:
- 10+ years of overall IT experience, including 5+ years as an AWS and DevOps Solution Architect / SME.
- Multi-cloud experience will be an added advantage, particularly hands-on exposure to AWS, Azure,GCP
- Proven delivery experience managing and implementing complex AWS and DevOps projects..
- Strong technical communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to lead architecture discussions, influence stakeholders, and act as a technical authority.
- AWS Professional Certification (AWS Solutions Architect Professional preferred).
Technical Stack:
Cloud: AWS (EC2, VPC, S3, EFS, FSx, RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, Lambda, ECS, EKS)
Networking & Security: VPC, Transit Gateway, IAM, AWS Organizations, WAF, GuardDuty, Security Hub
DevOps & Automation: CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, GitHub/GitLab, Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK
Containers: Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS
Monitoring: Amazon CloudWatch, X-Ray, Observability tools
Cost & Governance: AWS Cost Explorer, Budgets, Savings Plans, AWS Well-Architected Framework.
