Job Qualifications and Responsibilities for AWS Cloud Architect:
- Develop cloud architectures that are scalable, resilient, cost efficient, and secure, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and established cybersecurity policies.
- Evaluate applications to determine their readiness and suitability for cloud adoption and create detailed migration strategies and roadmaps.
- Produce clear and comprehensive architectural documentation—including Microsoft Visio diagrams—as well as cloud governance models, technical standards, and implementation playbooks.
Strong understanding of:
▸ AWS Compute (EC2, Instance Auto Scaling, Batch)
▸ AWS Storage (S3, EBS, Batch Operations, Tiers, Intelligent Tiering, Lifecycle Policies)
▸ AWS data analytics platforms (Glue, Lake Formation, RedShift, Athena, etc.)
▸ AWS database services (RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, etc.)
▸ Serverless services (Fargate, Lambda)
▸ Azure compute services (VMs, Scale-Sets, Batch)
▸ Azure storage (storage accounts, blobs, files, tables, queues, data lake)
▸ Azure data analytics platforms (Fabric, Data Factory, Synapse, Databricks, Event Hubs etc.)
▸ Azure database services (Azure SQL DB, Managed Instance, Hyperscale, Cosmos DB etc.)
▸ Serverless services (Azure Functions, Web App, App Services, ASE, Logic Apps, etc.)
▸ Containerization (ECS, ECR, EKS, Batch, Kubernetes, Docker, AKS, OpenShift, etc.)
▸ Implementing disaster recovery (DR) and backup strategies aligned with regulatory compliance (RTO/RPO).
- Strong understanding of VPC design, vNet design, Hub & Spoke, Transit Gateway, Peering, Application Load Balancers, Application Gateway, Network Load Balancers, Traffic Manager, VPNs, Direct Connect, ExpressRoute, and hybrid networking.
- Implement cloud security best practices (IAM, RBAC, WAF, Security Groups, NACLs, CloudTrail, GuardDuty, Secrets Manager, NSG, ASG, Service Principals, Managed Identities, Azure Advisor, Defender for Cloud, Key Vault, encryption, monitoring).
