Principal Consultant-AWS Solution Architect
Evalueserve2 days ago
Raleigh, NC, USAStaff+
Responsibilities
- Architect high-throughput, resilient microservices and event-driven systems using AWS compute, container, integration, database, and messaging services.
- Design self-service internal developer platforms, reusable golden paths, infrastructure-as-code, and GitOps deployment automation.
- Establish Kubernetes orchestration, zero-trust IAM controls, observability, distributed tracing, SLIs, SLOs, disaster recovery, and automated failover practices.
- Develop executive business cases and lead FinOps decisions involving ROI, total cost of ownership, reserved capacity, Savings Plans, rightsizing, and resource optimization.
- Establish technical roadmaps, Architecture Decision Records, Architecture Review Boards, and multi-year cloud migration strategies.
- Partner with application developers to standardize APIs, data access patterns, local development workflows, and resilient coding practices.
Requirements
- 15+ years of overall technology experience, including substantial hands-on leadership in enterprise solution architecture, cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, and large-scale data platforms.
- Deep production architecture experience across AWS compute, containers, integration, data, storage, networking, security, identity, monitoring, and infrastructure-as-code services.
- Experience architecting enterprise-scale platforms comparable to environments with hundreds of data pipelines, multiple consumer groups, and strict availability and recovery objectives.
- Strong hands-on experience with EKS/ECS, Kubernetes, Karpenter, Lambda, EventBridge, MSK/Kafka, Aurora, DynamoDB, IAM, CloudWatch, AWS X-Ray, AWS CDK, Terraform, and GitOps.
- Experience with resilient systems, low-RPO/RTO multi-region disaster recovery, automated failover, platform engineering, observability, and architectural governance.