AWS solution Architect

Mandatory Experience

• Application development, performance optimisation, caching strategies, and container-based deployments on AWS using ECS, Docker, GitLab CI/CD and AWS-native DevOps tooling.
• Advanced AWS networking, including VPC design, Transit Gateway, Cloud WAN, routing, segmentation and multi-account connectivity.
• Enterprise-scale networking architectures including hub-and-spoke models using AWS Transit Gateway and AWS Cloud WAN for multi-account environments.
• Security and perimeter protection using AWS Network Firewall, Gateway Load Balancers (GWLB), centralised ingress/egress inspection and zero-trust security patterns.
• Identity and Access Management (IAM), including IAM policies, Service Control Policies (SCPs), IAM Identity Center and least-privilege access models within regulated environments.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, with experience building clean, reusable and composable infrastructure modules.
• Cloud Operations, Reliability and Observability using CloudWatch, Splunk and related monitoring platforms.
• Design of highly available, fault-tolerant and resilient cloud architectures across multiple AWS Availability Zones.
• Experience implementing Disaster Recovery (DR), backup, failover, resilience and business continuity patterns.
• Strong understanding of cloud security, governance, risk and controls within enterprise environments.
• Experience supporting production systems and leading technical troubleshooting, root cause analysis and performance optimisation activities.

Desirable Experience

• Experience with AI/ML platforms on AWS, preferably Amazon Bedrock.
• Knowledge of Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), vector search and enterprise AI architecture patterns.
• Understanding of AI security, governance, observability and responsible AI controls.
• Experience integrating AI capabilities into cloud-native applications and platforms.
• Familiarity with agentic architecture patterns and API-first AI integrations.