AWS Solutions Architect

Important Information

Experience: + 8 years

Job Mode: Full-time

Work Mode: Work from home

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced AWS Solutions Architect to join our forward-thinking team. The ideal candidate will have a profound understanding of AWS services, architecture best practices, and a proven ability to design and implement scalable, secure, highly available and cost-effective solutions to support the growth of our Fintech platform. 

Responsibilities and Duties

• Design, implement, and maintain scalable and secure micro-services and event-based architectures for our Fintech platform on AWS. 
• Collaborate with product management, program management and cross-functional teams to define technical requirements, develop solutions that align with business objectives, ensure seamless integration and delivery of applications. 
• Conduct POCs to evaluate different tools and technologies to enhance our technology stack to improve both functional and non-functional aspects of our solutions. 
• Migrate existing applications, APIs, batch jobs, and deploy newly built micro-services to EKS on AWS, ensuring no downtime, high availability, scalability, resiliency and optimal performance with security and cost optimization. 
• Develop and maintain architectural documentation, including architecture and design patterns, best practices, and implementation guides. 
• Ensure compliance with industry standards, regulatory requirements, and security best practices. 
• Conduct regular cloud infrastructure housekeeping, performance tuning, monitoring, and optimization of AWS environments. Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize system reliability and security. 
• Develop and manage CI/CD pipelines to automate infrastructure provisioning and deployment processes. 
• Implement infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation. 
• Work as an individual contributor and provide mentorship to junior architects and engineers. 
• Provide AWS infrastructure, networking, security and DevOps hand-on production support. 

Qualifications and Skills

• 10+ years of experience in IT infrastructure architecture, solution design and administration on AWS cloud platform. 
• 5+ years of experience in migrating complex applications and workloads to Kubernetes platforms esp. EKS on AWS.  
• 5+ Years of experience in microservices deployment on Kubernetes platform. 
• 5+ years of experience with CI/CD tools and services such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, AWS DevOps (Code Commit, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, CodePipeline) or Azure DevOps. 
• 5+ years of hands-on experience in building the AWS cloud infrastructure environments from the ground up. 
• 5+ years of experience in the financial services industry. 
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional or equivalent certification. 
• Extensive experience with AWS services such as EC2, ECS, EKS, Fargate, Lambda, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, OpenSearch, ElastiCache, Transfer Family, VPC, IAM, Cognito, SQS, SNS, MSK, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, Event Bridge, Step Functions, EMR, Kinesis, Amplify, Identity Center, GuardDuty and Workspaces 
• Strong knowledge of networking, security, and compliance in the AWS cloud. 
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to think critically and analytically. Strong communication skills, with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders. 
• Experience with broker-dealer platforms is highly desirable. 
• Experience with service mesh solutions such as Istio, AWS App Mesh or Linkerd is highly desirable. 
• Experience with microservices development and integration on the .net platform is highly desirable. 
• Experience with microservices development and integration on the .net and Microsoft power platform is highly desirable. 

About Encora

Encora is the preferred digital engineering and modernization partner of some of the world’s leading enterprises and digital native companies. With over 9,000 experts in 47+ offices and innovation labs worldwide, Encora’s technology practices include Product Engineering & Development, Cloud Services, Quality Engineering, DevSecOps, Data & Analytics, Digital Experience, Cybersecurity, and AI & LLM Engineering.

At Encora, we hire professionals based solely on their skills and qualifications, and do not discriminate based on age, disability, religion, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, or nationality.