AWS Architect

Job Title : AWS Architect

Location : Raritan, NJ

JD :

Experience Required :

8 10 years overall IT experience

(5+ years hands-on in AWS architecture, solution design, and cloud-native applications)

Role Overview :

We are seeking a highly experienced AWS Cloud Architect / Lead to design, build, and scale enterprise-grade cloud platforms and solutions.

The role requires deep technical expertise in AWS services, infrastructure design, DevOps practices, and solution leadership across complex, distributed systems.

The candidate will be responsible for driving cloud adoption, modernization initiatives, and ensuring performance, reliability, and cost efficiency across environments.

Key Responsibilities

Design and implement end-to-end cloud architectures leveraging AWS services (compute, storage, networking, and serverless).

Lead cloud migration and modernization projects - from assessment to deployment.

Define architecture blueprints, landing zones, and reference models for application onboarding.

Ensure compliance with security, IAM, and governance standards across AWS accounts and workloads.

Optimize infrastructure for performance, scalability, and cost efficiency using best practices.

Work closely with developers, DevOps, and product teams to design microservices and event-driven architectures.

Establish and enforce CI / CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) standards (Terraform / CloudFormation).

Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineering teams.

Define and monitor SLAs, resiliency strategies, and observability frameworks.

Collaborate with business stakeholders to align architecture decisions with strategic goals.

Technical Expertise

Core AWS Services :

EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda, API Gateway, S3, CloudFront, RDS, DynamoDB, SNS / SQS, Step Functions, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, IAM, KMS, Opensearch, Kafka and Secrets Manager.

Architecture & Design :

Microservices and serverless architectures

Event-driven and asynchronous systems

High-availability and disaster recovery (multi-AZ / multi-region)

Networking (VPC design, Transit Gateway, Route 53, VPN, Direct Connect)

DevOps / Automation :

IaC using Terraform, CloudFormation, or CDK

CI / CD using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or AWS CodePipeline

Containerization and orchestration (Docker, ECS, EKS, Fargate)

Monitoring & logging : CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK / OpenSearch

Security & Governance :

IAM design, policies, and role-based access control

AWS Organizations, Control Tower, and Security Hub

Compliance (ISO, SOC2, GDPR) awareness

Qualifications

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field

AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional (preferred)

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer or Security Specialty (advantageous)

Proven experience in leading cloud architecture initiatives in mid / large enterprises

Soft Skills

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

Excellent communication and stakeholder management

Team leadership and mentoring ability

Ability to balance technical depth with business pragmatism

Nice-to-Have

Experience integrating with SAP, Salesforce, or enterprise data platforms

Exposure to multi-cloud environments (Azure / GCP)

Experience with OpenSearch / Elastic, Kafka / RabbitMQ, or EventBridge