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We are seeking a Senior AWS Cloud Architect to lead the design, migration, and optimization of large-scale cloud solutions on AWS. The ideal candidate will have deep hands-on experience with cloud architecture, legacy-to-cloud migrations, security, and cost optimization, while working closely with business and engineering stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities:

- Design, architect, and implement scalable, secure, and highly available AWS cloud solutions
- Lead cloud migration initiatives (re-host, re-platform, re-architect) from on-premises or other clouds to AWS
- Define cloud architecture standards, reference architectures, and best practices
- Provide technical leadership and guidance to cloud engineers and DevOps teams
- Collaborate with application, security, networking, and data teams to ensure end-to-end solutions
- Implement high availability, disaster recovery, backup, and business continuity strategies
- Ensure cloud security and compliance using AWS Well-Architected Framework and security best practices
- Optimize performance and cloud costs using monitoring, automation, and FinOps principles
- Review and approve architecture designs, infrastructure code, and deployment strategies
- Support pre-sales, RFPs, and client workshops when required

Cloud Architecture & Strategy

- Design and own end-to-end AWS cloud architectures aligned with business and technical requirements




- Define cloud migration strategies (re-host, re-platform, re-factor, re-architect, retire, retain)
- Establish AWS best practices, standards, and reference architectures
- Act as a trusted advisor to stakeholders on cloud adoption and modernization

Migration Leadership:

- Lead large-scale on-premise to AWS and data center exit initiatives
- Perform application and infrastructure assessments using AWS migration frameworks
- Define migration roadmaps, dependency mapping, and cutover strategies
- Drive use of AWS migration tools such as AWS Migration Hub, Application Discovery Service, DMS, Snowball, and SCT

Required Skills & Experience:

- 8+ years of overall IT experience with 5+ years in AWS cloud architecture
- Robust hands-on experience with core AWS services:
- Compute: EC2, Auto Scaling, Lambda, ECS/EKS
- Storage: S3, EBS, EFS
- Databases: RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB
- Networking: VPC, Subnets, Route 53, ALB/NLB, Direct Connect, VPN
- Proven experience in large-scale cloud migrations and modernization programs
- Expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC): CloudFormation, Terraform
- Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps tools (Git, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, CodePipeline)
- Solid understanding of security concepts: IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager, WAF, Shield
- Experience with monitoring and logging tools: CloudWatch, CloudTrail, X-Ray

📌 Senior Manager - Data Centre (Mumbai)
🏢 HDB Financial Services
📍 Mumbai