AWS Infrastructure Architect

Senior AWS Infrastructure Architect

Location: Near Stuttgart

Employment Type: Permanent Position

Are you ready to take ownership of cloud architecture at a strategic level and influence how a global organization operates in AWS?

We're partnering with a market-leading international company that is investing heavily in its cloud transformation journey. This is a unique opportunity for an experienced AWS Infrastructure Architect to become a key decision-maker, driving the design, governance, security, and evolution of large-scale AWS environments used across multiple business functions worldwide.

This is more than just an architecture role. It's a long-term career opportunity where you'll help define cloud standards, influence technology strategy, and work alongside senior architects, security experts, and cloud leaders on business-critical initiatives.

What You'll Be Doing

• Lead the design and evolution of enterprise AWS infrastructure architectures.
• Define AWS Landing Zones, reference architectures, and cloud platform standards.
• Build secure, scalable, highly available, and cost-efficient cloud environments.
• Drive governance, security, compliance, and operational best practices across AWS platforms.
• Act as the go-to AWS infrastructure expert for architecture, DevOps, security, and operations teams.
• Support cloud modernization and large-scale transformation programs.
• Influence strategic cloud decisions and help shape the future direction of the organization's cloud platform.
• Collaborate with global stakeholders and external partners on complex enterprise initiatives.

What You'll Bring

• 10+ years of experience in Infrastructure Architecture, Cloud Architecture, or related disciplines.
• Strong experience designing and operating enterprise-scale AWS environments.
• Advanced knowledge of AWS services including VPC, EC2, ECS/EKS, S3, IAM, Organizations, CloudTrail, and CloudWatch.
• Deep understanding of networking, security, identity management, resilience, disaster recovery, and cloud governance.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar).
• Strong understanding of DevOps principles and CI/CD practices.
• Experience working in complex, enterprise, or regulated environments.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to engage both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Why This Opportunity?

This role offers the chance to work on a modern cloud platform with genuine influence over architectural decisions at a global level. You'll join an organization that views cloud as a strategic business enabler, providing long-term stability, career progression, and the opportunity to work with large-scale AWS technologies and transformation programs.

If you're looking for a permanent opportunity where your architectural expertise can have a real impact, we'd love to hear from you.