AWS Solution Architect

Job Title : AWS Solution Architect
Job Location : Torrance, CA – Onsite (4 Days Onsite)
Job Duration : 6 month(s) (Contract)

Role Summary:

• Seeking an experienced AWS Solution Architect to define secure, scalable, resilient, and cost-effective cloud solutions, lead modernization and migration initiatives, and govern architecture from discovery through implementation.

Architecture & Solution Design:

• 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.

AWS Platform Expertise:

• 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.

Migration & Modernization:

• 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.

Security, Governance & Cost:

• 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.

DevOps & Automation:

• 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.

Required Skills:

• 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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 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.