We are hiring an experienced Cloud Platform Architect AWS for a leading multinational IT services organisation. The ideal candidate will design and implement secure, scalable, and cloud-native AWS solutions while driving enterprise cloud transformation initiatives. This role involves architecting modern applications, mentoring technical teams, and ensuring high availability, security, and cost optimisation across AWS environments.
Key Responsibilities
- Design scalable, secure, and resilient AWS cloud architectures.
- Architect serverless applications using AWS native services.
- Define cloud migration and cloud adoption strategies.
- Design microservices and event-driven architectures.
- Implement Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or CloudFormation.
- Optimise AWS environments for performance, scalability, and cost.
- Implement cloud security best practices, IAM, encryption, and compliance.
- Build and support CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
- Monitor cloud infrastructure using CloudWatch and observability tools.
- Mentor engineering teams and establish cloud architecture best practices.
Required Skills
- 12+ years of IT experience.
- 5+ years of experience in AWS Cloud Architecture.
- Robust hands-on expertise in:
- AWS Lambda
- API Gateway
- Step Functions
- SNS
- SQS
- EventBridge
- AWS Glue
- Amazon Redshift
- Amazon S3
- DynamoDB
- Aurora PostgreSQL
- Amazon MSK (Kafka)
- AWS Bedrock
- Amazon SageMaker
- Amazon Q
- Experience with Agentic AI and MCP architecture.
- Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/CloudFormation).
- Cloud security, IAM, encryption, and compliance.
- Performance tuning, monitoring, and cost optimisation using CloudWatch.
- Excellent communication, leadership, and stakeholder management skills.