Senior AWS DevOps Lead (Architect)

Job Title : Senior AWS DevOps Lead (Architect)

Experience :10+ Years Overall Experience

Duration: 3 months

Key Responsibilities

Lead discovery workshops and infrastructure assessments for cloud transformation programs.

Analyze existing on-premise and cloud environments and define modernization roadmaps.

Design scalable, secure, resilient, and cost-optimized AWS architectures.

Create high-level and low-level designs (HLD/LLD) for infrastructure and platform solutions.

Lead migration planning, dependency analysis, and workload onboarding to AWS.

Define Infrastructure as Code (IaC) standards using Terraform and CloudFormation.

Design and implement CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.

Provide technical leadership across infrastructure, DevOps, security, and operations teams.

Drive platform standardization, governance, and operational best practices.

Act as a trusted advisor for customers during architecture reviews and solutioning discussions.

Mandatory Skills

AWS Architecture and Solution Design

AWS Landing Zone & Multi-Account Strategy

Infrastructure Discovery & Assessment

Cloud Migration & Modernization

Terraform (Mandatory)

CloudFormation

Kubernetes / Amazon EKS

Docker

CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Azure DevOps)

Networking (VPC, Transit Gateway, VPN, Direct Connect)

Security (IAM, Security Hub, GuardDuty, WAF)

Monitoring (CloudWatch, Grafana, Prometheus)

Preferred AWS Services

EC2, VPC, IAM, Route53

ECS, EKS, Lambda

S3, EFS, FSx

RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB

CloudWatch, CloudTrail

Systems Manager

AWS Organizations

Control Tower

Certifications

AWS Solutions Architect Professional (Preferred)

AWS DevOps Engineer Professional

AWS Security Specialty (Good to Have)

Ideal Candidate Profile

Strong hands-on architect with the ability to perform discovery, assessment, solutioning, and implementation.

Comfortable engaging with client architects, infrastructure teams, and CXO stakeholders.

Able to define migration strategies, architecture patterns, and DevOps operating models.

Hands-on technical expert, not just a coordinator or project manager.

Experience supporting large enterprise cloud transformation programs across multiple geographies.