AWS Solutions Architect

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11d • Remote

About The Position

This role involves owning the AWS architecture of a regulated payments platform, focusing on multi-account structure, network, security baseline, and cost. The position is for a senior/principal level full-time contractor with a client in the US fintech (payments platform) sector, open to candidates in LATAM and the US with Eastern time overlap.

Requirements

• 8+ years in infrastructure or cloud engineering, 4+ architecting on AWS
• Infrastructure as code at scale with Terraform or CDK
• Experience in PCI DSS or SOC 2 environments
• Deep networking knowledge (VPC, Transit Gateway, PrivateLink)
• Ability to write clear design documents and defend trade-offs in English

Nice To Haves

• AWS Solutions Architect Professional or Security Specialty
• Previous SRE or platform engineering role
• Experience with core banking or card-processing integrations

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve the multi-account landing zone (Organizations, Control Tower, IAM Identity Center)
• Define reference architectures for services on EKS, Lambda, RDS/Aurora and MSK
• Lead multi-region resilience and disaster recovery design with tested RTO and RPO targets
• Set security standards: network segmentation, KMS key strategy, secrets management
• Run architecture reviews and Well-Architected assessments with engineering teams
• Drive FinOps: tagging, budgets, savings plans and right-sizing

What This Job Offers

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