AWS Solutions Architect

We are looking for an experienced AWS Solutions Architect for a project for our client from the EdTech industry.

• 3–5+ years of hands-on experience with AWS in production environments
• Strong experience in designing and operating cloud-based applications, not just infrastructure
• Solid background in application development or architecture (PHP, Java, or similar technologies)
• Proven experience working with REST APIs, monolithic and microservice architectures, and event-driven systems
• Hands-on experience in debugging applications running in cloud environments
• Strong knowledge of logging, monitoring, and observability (CloudWatch, OpenSearch, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, etc.)
• Experience with Docker and container orchestration (ECS and/or EKS)
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Proficient level of English

Nice to have:

• Experience in correlating application logs with cloud infrastructure metrics to troubleshoot production issues
• Experience with distributed tracing (OpenTelemetry, X-Ray)
• Experience working in regulated or high-availability environments
• Knowledge of performance optimization at both the application and infrastructure level
• Additional AWS or DevOps certifications (DevOps Engineer, Security, SysOps, Networking)

• Working with client stakeholders, including C-level executives, to understand business needs and define cloud transformation goals
• Designing scalable, secure, and cost-effective AWS architectures (ECS/EKS, Lambda, S3, API Gateway, RDS, DynamoDB, SNS/SQS, EventBridge, VPC)
• Creating target architectures and migration or modernization roadmaps for legacy systems (monolith to cloud-native or hybrid)
• Identifying technical and operational risks and defining mitigation strategies
• Designing and reviewing application architectures, including monoliths, microservices, REST APIs, event-driven systems, authentication, authorization, and service-to-service communication
• Supporting teams in designing APIs, data flows, and integration patterns between applications and cloud services
• Advising on architectural trade-offs (monolith vs microservices, synchronous vs asynchronous, serverless vs containerized)
• Supporting development and operations teams in debugging complex production issues
• Analyzing and correlating application logs, cloud infrastructure logs and metrics, and distributed traces
• Setting up and improving logging, monitoring, and observability across the application and cloud layers
• Helping teams identify root causes of performance, stability, and scalability issues
• Implementing and maintaining AWS infrastructure (EC2, ECS/EKS, RDS, S3, IAM, VPC, Lambda)
• Designing and improving CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Bitbucket Pipelines)
• Automating environments using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, AWS CDK)
• Supporting application and environment migrations to AWS
• Ensuring security best practices across infrastructure and applications (IAM, network security, secrets management)
• Working with development teams to meet compliance and security standards (e.g. ISO, SOC-like, or banking-grade frameworks)
• Building high-availability, disaster recovery, and backup strategies
• Implementing and improving monitoring, alerting