Bengaluru, Karnataka
Job Summary

We are seeking a Senior Solution Architect (AWS) to design, architect, and lead cloud-native solutions at scale. The role requires deep hands-on expertise in AWS, solid SRE and DevOps practices, and proven experience building highly available, secure, and automated platforms using microservices, serverless, and Kubernetes (EKS).

Key Responsibilities

Architecture & Design

- Design end-to-end AWS cloud architectures that are scalable, secure, resilient, and cost-optimized
- Define reference architectures for microservices, serverless, and containerized workloads
- Lead application modernization and cloud migration initiatives
- Perform architecture reviews and ensure alignment with AWS Well-Architected Framework

DevOps & SRE
Establish and enforce SRE best practices (SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, observability)

- Design and implement CI/CD pipelines for microservices and serverless workloads
- Improve system reliability, availability, and performance through automation
- Drive incident management, root cause analysis, and post-mortems

Containers & Serverless

- Architect and operate Amazon EKS clusters for production workloads
- Design microservices architectures using containers and service-to-service communication
- Build and scale serverless solutions using AWS Lambda, API Gateway, EventBridge, Step Functions
- Define service discovery, ingress, and traffic management strategies

Automation & Infrastructure

- Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, CloudFormation, or CDK
- Automate provisioning, configuration, scaling, and recovery processes
- Optimize deployments using blue-green, canary, and rolling strategies

Security & Governance

- Architect secure solutions using IAM, VPC, security groups, WAF, KMS, Secrets Manager
- Enforce security best practices, compliance, and least-privilege access




- Integrate security into CI/CD pipelines (DevSecOps)

Leadership & Collaboration

- Act as a technical leader and mentor for engineering teams
- Collaborate with product, engineering, and business stakeholders
- Translate business requirements into technical solutions
- Support pre-sales, solution reviews, and technical decision-making

Skill Requirements

- 8–10 years of overall IT experience
- 5+ years of hands-on AWS cloud architecture experience
- Strong experience in production-grade systems at scale.

AWS & Cloud

- Deep knowledge of AWS services: EC2, VPC, ALB/NLB, RDS, DynamoDB, S3, CloudWatch, IAM
- Strong experience with serverless AWS services

DevOps & SRE

- CI/CD tools: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Argo CD, or similar
- Monitoring & observability: CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry
- Strong understanding of reliability engineering concepts

Containers & Microservices

- Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes (EKS)
- Microservices design patterns, API design, and event-driven architectures
- Experience with service mesh is a plus (Istio / App Mesh)

Automation & IaC

- Terraform / CloudFormation / AWS CDK
- Scripting: Bash, Python, or similar

Other Requirements

Preferred Qualifications

- AWS Certifications (Solutions Architect – Professional preferred)
- Experience with multi-account AWS landing zones
- Exposure to cost optimization and FinOps practices
- Experience in regulated or high-availability environments

Soft Skills

- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management
- Ability to work independently and lead complex initiatives
- Mentoring and technical leadership mindset

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📌 Technical Specialist (Bengaluru)
🏢 HCLTech
📍 Bengaluru