Senior AWS Solutions Architect

Salve.Inno Consulting • Denver, CO

2d • Remote

About The Position

We are looking for a Senior AWS Solutions Architect to help design, evolve and strengthen complex cloud-native platforms operating at scale. This is a senior technical role for someone who combines deep AWS and Kubernetes expertise with strong customer-facing capabilities. You will work across architecture, cloud infrastructure and production environments, helping identify technical weaknesses, define solutions and drive improvements through to implementation. We are looking for someone who is comfortable going beyond architectural diagrams. You should be able to understand how systems behave in production, challenge existing approaches, make sound technical decisions and work closely with engineering teams to turn architectural direction into practical solutions. Just as importantly, you will be comfortable representing technical topics directly with customers. You should be able to understand a problem, articulate it clearly, propose a solution and give stakeholders confidence that you can take ownership of the technical challenge.

Requirements

• Extensive professional experience designing and operating solutions on AWS.
• Strong hands-on understanding of Kubernetes in production environments.
• Proven experience designing cloud-native, highly available and scalable architectures.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, networking, security and production infrastructure.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and cloud automation, ideally using Terraform or equivalent technologies.
• Good understanding of CI/CD, observability, monitoring and modern cloud engineering practices.
• Ability to assess an existing environment, identify weaknesses and propose technically sound improvements.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving capabilities across complex production systems.
• Proven customer-facing experience, with the ability to lead technical discussions directly with customers and senior stakeholders.
• Ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly and confidently, including architecture decisions, trade-offs and risks.
• Comfortable taking ownership and making technical recommendations rather than relying on continuous escalation.
• Strong collaboration skills and experience working across Cloud, Platform, SRE and Software Engineering functions.
• Professional fluency in English (C1+)

Nice To Haves

• AWS Solutions Architect certification or other advanced AWS certifications.
• Experience supporting enterprise or business-critical production environments.
• Experience working with large-scale Kubernetes platforms.
• Background spanning both cloud architecture and hands-on engineering.
• Experience with incident management, production troubleshooting or technical customer escalations.
• Experience designing platforms used by large enterprise customers.
• Multi-cloud exposure, particularly Azure, alongside deep AWS expertise.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve scalable, resilient and secure cloud architectures primarily on AWS.
• Provide architectural direction for cloud-native platforms and distributed systems running in production.
• Assess existing environments, identify architectural or operational weaknesses and define pragmatic improvements.
• Design and review Kubernetes-based architectures, including networking, scaling, availability, security and workload management.
• Translate business and customer requirements into robust technical solutions.
• Lead and contribute to technical discussions with customers, including architecture reviews, solution design sessions and complex technical escalations.
• Clearly communicate technical problems, trade-offs, risks and proposed solutions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Work closely with Cloud, Platform, SRE and Software Engineering teams to ensure architectural decisions can be implemented effectively.
• Provide technical guidance during complex production issues and help teams make informed decisions under pressure.
• Define and promote best practices around reliability, scalability, security, observability and cloud operations.
• Contribute to infrastructure automation and Infrastructure as Code strategies.
• Review existing technical approaches and challenge them constructively when better solutions are available.
• Support engineering teams in moving architectural concepts through implementation and into production.
• Help raise technical standards across the wider engineering organisation through knowledge sharing, mentoring and architectural guidance.

Benefits

• Senior technical ownership with the opportunity to influence architecture and engineering direction.
• Exposure to complex, large-scale cloud-native environments.
• Direct involvement in high-impact architecture and customer-facing technical decisions.
• Collaboration with experienced Cloud, Platform, SRE and Software Engineering teams.
• The opportunity to challenge existing approaches and introduce better engineering practices.
• A role with significant autonomy and room to grow into broader technical leadership.
• International environment working with enterprise customers and distributed engineering teams.
• Remote working environment.

What This Job Offers

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