Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Architectural Design, Architectural Services, Best Practices, Cloud Architecture, Cloud Computing, Communication Skills, Cost Control, DevOps, Documentation, Documentation Standards, Enterprise Architecture, Network Architecture/Engineering, Network Routing, Onboarding, Policy Development, Protective Services, Registered Training Organisation (RTO), Sales Strategy, Systems Administration/Management
AWS Architect
Remote ** Time zone preferred: EST or CST **
Contract (W2)
Name | Required |
AWS Organizations | Yes |
AWS Control tower | Yes |
AWS VPC | Yes |
AWS Cloud | Yes |
AWS Platform | Yes |
AWS - IAM | Yes | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Years of Experience: 14 Years
Top skills:
- Strong expertise in AWS Organizations, Control Tower, IAM, VPC, and Security services
- Experience with enterprise cloud governance and compliance models
- Hands-on experience designing large-scale AWS architectures
- Strong understanding of security, networking, resilience, and cost optimization
- Excellent communication, documentation, and stakeholder management skills
- Prior experience setting up AWS Platform or Cloud COE will be preferred
Role Summary:
- Seeking an experienced AWS Enterprise / Solutions Architect to support Cloud Center of Excellence (COE) initiatives.
- The architect will be responsible for defining AWS cloud architecture, governance, and enterprise guardrails, ensuring alignment with AWS best practices and client standards.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead AWS landing zone and Control Tower / AFT assessments and improvements
- Define multi-account strategy, environment separation, and shared services model
- Design IAM architecture including roles, permission boundaries, and AWS Identity Center integration
- Define network architecture, segmentation, routing, and connectivity guardrails
- Establish enterprise tagging, naming standards, and security/compliance guardrails (SCP intent)
- Create and maintain AWS reference architectures and golden paths (EC2, ECS, EKS, Serverless)
- Define policy-as-code intent in collaboration with DevOps teams
- Provide architectural guidance for DR, resilience, RTO/RPO, and SRE fundamentals
- Review designs and provide architectural oversight for AWS workloads
- Develop COE documentation, standards, and onboarding materials
Certifications:
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional (preferred)
- AWS Certified Security Specialty