Position : Lead / Senior AWS Solution Architect

Overall/Total Experience : 10-15 years only

Location : Bengaluru

Working Days : 5 Days Working from office

Notice Period Requirement : 30 Days (Maximum)

Client's Company Size : Startup / Small Enterprise

Roles &

Responsibilities :

1. Pre-Sales &

- Customer Engagement :
- Lead initial discovery calls with prospective and existing customers to understand business needs, current infrastructure, and cloud goals.
- Translate business requirements into technical solutions and cloud strategy.
- Prepare Statements of Work (SOW), Level of Effort (LOE), and cost estimates for AWS projects (migration, greenfield builds, modernization, managed services).
- Own the proposal and pitch process for AWS engagements, including RFP/RFI responses.

2. Architecture &

- Solutioning :
- Design secure, scalable, cost-optimized AWS architectures (Well-Architected Framework aligned) across compute, storage, networking, database, containers, serverless, and security domains.
- Create architecture diagrams, HLD/LLD documents, and migration/implementation plans.
- Evaluate and recommend the right mix of AWS services for a given use case (cost vs. performance vs. complexity trade-offs).
- Conduct architecture reviews and Well-Architected Framework Reviews (WAFR) for existing customer workloads.

3. Migration &

- Implementation :
- Plan and execute cloud migrations (rehost, replatform, refactor) using AWS-native and third-party tools (e.g., AWS MGN, DMS, Migration Hub).
- Lead implementation of recent AWS environments landing zones, networking (VPC, Direct Connect, Transit Gateway), IAM, security baseline, CI/CD pipelines, and workload deployment.




- Ensure infrastructure is built using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform / CloudFormation / CDK) and follows DevOps best practices.
- Own project delivery timelines, technical risk management, and quality of implementation.

4. Operations, Support &

- Escalation Management :
- Act as the final technical escalation point for critical/complex issues raised by customers or internal team members.
- Define and oversee incident management, RCA (Root Cause Analysis), and post-mortem processes for AWS-managed environments.
- Set up and refine monitoring, alerting, cost governance, and security compliance practices across managed AWS accounts.
- Own SLAs for support/managed services engagements.

5. AWS Partnership &

- Practice Management :
- Own and maintain our organization's AWS Partner relationship partner tier requirements, certifications, competencies, and partner funding/programs (MAP, POA, etc., where applicable).
- Track and help the organization achieve/maintain AWS Partner competencies (e.g., Migration, DevOps, Well-Architected).
- Liaise with AWS Partner Development Manager (PDM) / AWS account teams for co-sell opportunities, funding programs, and technical enablement.
- Keep the practice updated on new AWS services, pricing changes, and best practices.

6.

Team Leadership :

- Build, lead,



and mentor the AWS engineering/architecture team (Cloud Engineers, DevOps Engineers, Support Engineers).
- Define technical standards, coding/IaC guidelines, and delivery methodology for the AWS practice.
- Conduct technical interviews and contribute to hiring for the AWS team.
- Own resource planning and capacity allocation across ongoing customer engagements.

Candidate Requirements :

- Must have 10 years of overall experience in IT Infrastructure, Cloud Engineering, Cloud Architecture, DevOps, or Enterprise Cloud Solutions.
- Must have 8 years of hands-on experience as an AWS Solutions Architect, AWS Cloud Architect, or AWS Technical Lead, designing and delivering enterprise-scale AWS solutions.
- Must have end-to-end ownership of AWS engagements, including pre-sales discovery, solution architecture, effort estimation (LOE), SOW preparation, implementation, cloud migration, delivery, and post-production support/escalation management.
- Must have expertise in designing secure, scalable, and cost-optimized AWS architectures using core AWS services including EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, VPC, Direct Connect, Transit Gateway, Route 53, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, Aurora, IAM, KMS, GuardDuty, Security Hub, and AWS Config.
- Must have experience leading AWS cloud migration and modernization projects using AWS Migration Hub, AWS MGN, AWS DMS, along with implementing AWS Landing Zones, networking, IAM, security, and production workloads.
- Must have experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or AWS CDK) and CI/CD pipelines using tools such as CodePipeline, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or DevOps platforms.

📌 Senior AWS Solution Architect (India)
🏢 Laksh Consultants
📍 India