Senior AWS Architect - Cloud Modernization & AI Enablement

Role: AWS Architect

Location: Sydney, NSW, Australia

Experience: 13+ yrs

Must Have Experience:

• Design and deploy scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant solutions on AWS
• Translate business and technical requirements into robust cloud architectures
• Lead cloud strategy, migration, and modernization initiatives
• Select appropriate AWS services (compute, storage, database, networking, security)
• Ensure adherence to AWS Well-Architected Framework (security, reliability, performance, cost)
• Define architecture standards, guidelines, and reusable patterns
• Conduct architecture reviews (HLD/LLD) and ensure compliance with enterprise standards
• Collaborate with data scientists to integrate ML models into applications
• Ensure data security, governance, and ethical AI usage
• Strong understanding of microservices, distributed systems, and API integration
• Experience with DevOps practices (CI/CD, containerization, Kubernetes preferred)
• Knowledge of monitoring, logging, and automation tools
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS services: EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, API Gateway, VPC, CloudFormation

Good to Have experience:

• Familiarity with Agile development methodologies.
• Experience in cloud migration and modernization
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform / CloudFormation)
• Architect solutions leveraging AI/ML services (Amazon SageMaker, Bedrock, Comprehend, etc.)
• Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills.
• Design GenAI-based use cases such as:
• RAG-based solutions
• AI agents / automation workflows
• NLP / document intelligence solutions