AWS Solution Architect

Location: Remote
Employment Type: Full-time
Company: ITFORLESS
Experience Level: Senior 

Job Summary 

ITFORLESS is seeking an experienced AWS Solution Architect to design, implement, and optimize scalable, secure, and cost-effective cloud solutions on Amazon Web Services (AWS). The ideal candidate will work closely with engineering, DevOps, security, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into robust cloud architectures that support performance, availability, and business growth. 

Key Responsibilities 

• Design and architect scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant AWS solutions. 

• Define cloud architecture best practices, standards, and design patterns. 

• Lead cloud migration projects, including on-premises to AWS and cloud-to-cloud migrations. 

• Select appropriate AWS services (EC2, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, Lambda, VPC, CloudFront, etc.) based on business requirements. 

• Implement security best practices, including IAM, network security, encryption, and compliance controls. 

• Optimize cloud costs, performance, and resource utilization using AWS cost management tools. 

• Collaborate with DevOps teams to design CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code (Terraform / CloudFormation), and automation. 

• Monitor system performance, reliability, and availability using CloudWatch and AWS monitoring tools. 

• Provide technical leadership, guidance, and documentation for development and operations teams. 

• Conduct architecture reviews, risk assessments, and troubleshooting of complex cloud issues. 

• Stay current with AWS services, cloud trends, and emerging technologies. 

Required Skills & Qualifications 

• Proven experience as an AWS Solution Architect or similar cloud architecture role. 

• Deep expertise in AWS core services, networking, compute, storage, and databases. 

• Strong knowledge of cloud security, IAM, VPC design, and compliance best practices. 

• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, AWS CloudFormation). 

• Experience with containerization (Docker, ECS, EKS) and serverless architectures (Lambda). 

• Understanding of high availability, disaster recovery, and backup strategies. 

• Experience working with Linux and Windows-based systems in AWS environments. 

• Strong problem-solving, communication, and documentation skills. 

• Ability to work independently in a remote, fast-paced environment. 

Preferred Qualifications 

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate or Professional. 

• Experience with DevOps tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD). 

• Knowledge of multi-cloud or hybrid cloud architectures. 

• Familiarity with monitoring, logging, and security tools. 

• Experience optimizing workloads for performance, scalability, and cost efficiency. 
• Exposure to AI/ML, data analytics, or big data services on AWS is a plus.