AWS Solution Architect

Cynet Systems • Torrance, CA

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About The Position

We are seeking an experienced AWS Solution Architect with a strong background in cloud and solution architecture to join our team. The ideal candidate will have deep hands-on knowledge of AWS architecture, cloud-native patterns, networking, security, integration, data, and DevOps. This role involves delivering enterprise migration, modernization, or greenfield cloud programs, requiring a strong understanding of non-functional requirements, architecture documentation, risk management, and technology governance. Excellent communication and presentation skills are essential for effectively interacting with stakeholders.

Requirements

• 12+ years of IT industry experience with significant experience in cloud and solution architecture.
• Deep hands-on knowledge of AWS architecture, cloud-native patterns, networking, security, integration, data, and DevOps.
• Experience delivering enterprise migration, modernization, or greenfield cloud programs.
• Strong understanding of NFRs, architecture documentation, risk management, and technology governance.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders.

Nice To Haves

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional.
• AWS specialty certification in Security, Networking, Data Analytics, or DevOps is advantageous.
• TOGAF or equivalent architecture certification.
• Manufacturing or automotive domain experience is an added advantage.

Responsibilities

• Define end-to-end AWS solution architectures aligned with business goals, enterprise standards, and non-functional requirements.
• Create current-state, target-state, integration, deployment, network, security, and data architecture views.
• Select fit-for-purpose managed AWS services and define reusable architecture patterns.
• Lead technical evaluations, architecture reviews, design decisions, and implementation guardrails.
• Design solutions using services such as EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, API Gateway, S3, RDS/Aurora, DynamoDB, CloudFront, Route 53, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, EventBridge, SQS, SNS, Glue, Athena, and Redshift.
• Apply AWS Well-Architected principles across operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, cost optimization, and sustainability.
• Design multi-account, network segmentation, identity, logging, monitoring, backup, disaster recovery, and high-availability approaches.
• Assess application portfolios and define migration or modernization strategies.
• Develop cloud migration roadmaps, landing-zone requirements, dependency plans, and cutover considerations.
• Guide refactoring toward microservices, containers, serverless, event-driven, and API-led architectures where appropriate.
• Embed security by design, least privilege, encryption, secrets management, auditability, and compliance controls.
• Define governance guardrails, tagging, policy enforcement, service standards, and architecture decision records.
• Drive cost transparency, sizing, consumption optimization, and architectural trade-off decisions.
• Define infrastructure-as-code and automated delivery approaches using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation or AWS CDK.
• Guide CI/CD, environment promotion, observability, release, rollback, and operational-readiness practices.
• Partner with engineering teams to automate repeatable provisioning and governance controls.
• Present architecture recommendations to Architecture Review Boards and executive stakeholders.
• Lead solution workshops and collaborate with application, security, data, infrastructure, network, and operations teams.
• Mentor technical teams and provide hands-on architecture guidance through delivery.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed