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Job Title: AWS Cloud Infrastructure Architect
Key Responsibilities
- Architect end-to-end infrastructure solutions leveraging AWS Well-Architected Framework and enterprise design patterns.
- Design scalable, secure multi-account landing zones, VPC architectures, enterprise networking, and workload isolation strategies.
- Provide architecture leadership for containerized platforms, including Amazon EKS and large-scale self-managed Kubernetes clusters.
Migration Leadership
- Lead complex On-Prem AWS and intra-AWS migrations involving VPC redesigns, account realignments, multi-region moves, and host architecture changes.
- Drive migrations from shared-tenant EC2/EKS deployments to AWS Dedicated Hosts, ensuring compliance, performance, and workload isolation.
- Conduct infrastructure assessments, migration strategies (rehost, replatform, refactor), and detailed cutover planning.
AWS Dedicated Host Expertise
- Design and manage workloads running on AWS Dedicated Hosts, including host allocation, tenancy planning, compliance alignment, and lifecycle management.
- Optimize compute planning, licensing models, capacity strategies, and high-availability architectures using Dedicated Hosts.
- Ensure secure and compliant hosting for sensitive workloads requiring physical isolation and regulatory controls.
Kubernetes & Platform Engineering
- Architect and manage large, multi-cluster Kubernetes environments with enterprise-grade reliability and security.
- Define compute and scaling strategies using EC2, EKS, Bottlerocket, autoscaling groups, and Dedicated Hosts backed node groups.
- Implement service mesh, workload identity, observability architectures, and cluster lifecycle automation.
Governance, Security & Compliance
- Develop and enforce IAM architectures, guardrails, cloud governance, and security policies aligned with CIS, NIST, and organizational standards.
- Partner with Security and Compliance teams to implement hardening, encryption, network segmentation, and threat detection.
Operational Excellence
- Lead performance tuning, capacity planning, resiliency engineering, and availability design for large-scale AWS workloads.
- Define operational playbooks for deployments, monitoring, backups, DR/HA, and workload lifecycle management.
- Mentor engineering teams on AWS architecture patterns, DevOps practices, and migration execution.
Cross-Functional Leadership
- Serve as a trusted advisor to engineering, SRE, product, and executive leadership.
- Partner with AWS teams and vendors to drive best practices and architectural decisions.
- Communicate complex solutions clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Required Qualifications
- 8+ years of experience in Cloud Architecture, Infrastructure Engineering, or Platform Engineering.
- 5+ years of advanced AWS experience across EC2, VPC, IAM, EKS, RDS, Route53, S3, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Config, and related services.
- Proven experience leading large-scale AWS migrations, including On-Prem AWS and shared-tenant Dedicated Host transitions.
- Deep hands-on expertise with AWS Dedicated Hosts, tenancy management, licensing considerations, and infrastructure lifecycle planning.
- Strong proficiency with Kubernetes, Terraform, cloud networking, and infrastructure automation.
- Excellent understanding of multi-account governance, security controls, and workload isolation.
- Strong communication and architectural leadership skills.
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