Job Description

We are seeking a Senior Cloud Solutions Architect with a strong focus on AWS and hybrid cloud environments to join our architecture team. This role is ideal for someone passionate about designing scalable, secure, and cost-optimized cloud architectures while setting cloud governance and standards across the enterprise. The successful candidate will have extensive experience working across business and technical teams to drive cloud transformation initiatives.

Responsibilities:

Design and implement secure, scalable, and resilient AWS cloud architectures to support enterprise applications and platforms.

Define and maintain cloud architecture standards, frameworks, and governance policies.

Lead the design of multi-cloud and hybrid cloud solutions that integrate on-premises infrastructure with public cloud platforms.

Collaborate with engineering, DevOps, security, and network teams to ensure alignment of architecture with enterprise goals.

Document cloud architecture using Microsoft Visio and maintain up-to-date implementation and governance guides.

Drive adoption of Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) practices

Provide cloud expertise in areas such as cloud networking, security, DevOps

Assist with cloud migrations, evaluating workloads for cloud suitability and developing migration roadmaps.

Ensure solutions comply with security and regulatory standards, such as CIS, NIST, ISO 27001, etc.

Implement and optimize cost management strategies using AWS native tools (Cost Explorer, CUR, Savings Plans).

Required Qualifications:

6–10 years of experience with AWS cloud architecture, services, and security best practices.

4–6 years of experience with hybrid on-premises/cloud integrations.

4–6 years in Cloud Networking (VPC, Direct Connect, Transit Gateway, Load Balancers, etc.).

4–6 years in Cloud DevOps, including CI/CD pipelines and automation.

2–3 years in Cloud Security, with hands-on knowledge of IAM, encryption, CloudTrail, WAF, etc.

1–2 years of experience with Cloud FinOps practices and tools.

Proficiency in cloud architecture documentation using Microsoft Visio.

Deep understanding of AWS services including:

Compute: EC2, Auto Scaling, Batch

Storage: S3, EBS, Lifecycle Policies

Serverless: Lambda, Fargate

Containers: ECS, EKS

Expertise in IaC tools: Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi.

Experience with CI/CD tools: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, AWS CodePipeline.

Team player with strong collaboration skills and the ability to communicate complex concepts to business stakeholders.

Experience leading client-facing meetings and operating as a service provider to deliver value.

Preferred Qualifications:

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional (Strongly Preferred)

Work location

Hybrid work schedule (3 days in office, 2 days remote) - first 90 days are on fully in office

If located outside of the NYC/Long Island area, fully remote options are available.

Travel may be required based upon client needs.

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