Cloud Architect

Job Qualifications and Responsibilities for AWS Cloud Architect:

• Develop cloud architectures that are scalable, resilient, cost efficient, and secure, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and established cybersecurity policies.
• Evaluate applications to determine their readiness and suitability for cloud adoption and create detailed migration strategies and roadmaps.
• Produce clear and comprehensive architectural documentation—including Microsoft Visio diagrams—as well as cloud governance models, technical standards, and implementation playbooks.

Strong understanding of:

▸ AWS Compute (EC2, Instance Auto Scaling, Batch)

▸ AWS Storage (S3, EBS, Batch Operations, Tiers, Intelligent Tiering, Lifecycle Policies)

▸ AWS data analytics platforms (Glue, Lake Formation, RedShift, Athena, etc.)

▸ AWS database services (RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, etc.)

▸ Serverless services (Fargate, Lambda)

▸ Azure compute services (VMs, Scale-Sets, Batch)

▸ Azure storage (storage accounts, blobs, files, tables, queues, data lake)

▸ Azure data analytics platforms (Fabric, Data Factory, Synapse, Databricks, Event Hubs etc.)

▸ Azure database services (Azure SQL DB, Managed Instance, Hyperscale, Cosmos DB etc.)

▸ Serverless services (Azure Functions, Web App, App Services, ASE, Logic Apps, etc.)

▸ Containerization (ECS, ECR, EKS, Batch, Kubernetes, Docker, AKS, OpenShift, etc.)

▸ Implementing disaster recovery (DR) and backup strategies aligned with regulatory compliance (RTO/RPO).

• Strong understanding of VPC design, vNet design, Hub & Spoke, Transit Gateway, Peering, Application Load Balancers, Application Gateway, Network Load Balancers, Traffic Manager, VPNs, Direct Connect, ExpressRoute, and hybrid networking.
• Implement cloud security best practices (IAM, RBAC, WAF, Security Groups, NACLs, CloudTrail, GuardDuty, Secrets Manager, NSG, ASG, Service Principals, Managed Identities, Azure Advisor, Defender for Cloud, Key Vault, encryption, monitoring).