AWS Cloud Solution Architect

Job Description

At Synoptek, we think globally and act locally. As the world's first Managed Experience Provider (MxP™), Synoptek provides world-class strategic IT leadership and hyper-efficient IT operational support, enabling our global client base to grow and transform their businesses. We are seeking an experienced AWS Cloud Solution Architect to join our Cloud Practice and serve as a 100 percent client-facing technical architect supporting customers across North America. The role focuses on customer engagement, solution architecture, technical leadership, consulting, and helping customers adopt and optimize AWS services.

Mandatory Skills

AWS,AWS Architecture,AWS Networking,AWS Security,IAM,Compute,Containers,Storage,Databases,Monitoring,Disaster Recovery,High Availability,Cloud Migration,Cloud Modernization,AWS Well-Architected Framework,Terraform,CloudFormation,DevOps,CI/CD,Automation,Customer Engagement

Role

• Act as the primary AWS technical advisor and architectural point of contact for assigned customers.
• Maintain relationships with customer IT leaders, technical teams, and business stakeholders.
• Conduct discovery sessions to understand business objectives, application requirements, infrastructure challenges, and cloud strategy.
• Translate business and technical requirements into practical AWS cloud solutions.
• Lead technical discussions, architecture reviews, workshops, and solution presentations.
• Design secure, scalable, highly available, resilient, and cost-effective AWS architectures.
• Develop HLD and LLD documentation, architecture diagrams, and implementation roadmaps.
• Apply AWS Well-Architected Framework principles across customer environments.
• Design solutions covering AWS networking, compute, containers, storage, databases, security and IAM, monitoring, backup and disaster recovery, high availability, business continuity, migration, and modernization.
• Review existing customer architectures and provide recommendations for improvement.
• Lead architecture activities for AWS migrations, modernization, infrastructure transformation, and cloud adoption initiatives.
• Support discovery, assessments, POCs, solution design, and implementation planning.
• Provide architectural oversight throughout project execution and review implementation plans.
• Identify AWS cost optimization opportunities through rightsizing, Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, and workload optimization.
• Provide AWS security architecture guidance covering IAM, network security, encryption, logging, monitoring, and security controls.
• Identify architectural risks and provide mitigation strategies.
• Provide architectural leadership during complex or high-priority customer incidents when required.
• Partner with CloudOps engineers on complex issues and recurring problems and recommend long-term solutions.
• Provide technical direction and knowledge transfer to CloudOps and DevOps engineers.
• Develop reusable AWS architecture patterns, standards, and best practices.
• Ensure effective handoff from architecture and design into ongoing managed services.
• Maintain significant overlap with North American business hours for customer meetings, workshops, architecture reviews, project discussions, and technical escalations.
  
  

EEO Statement: We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. It is our intention that all qualified applicants are given equal opportunity and that employment decisions be based on job-related factors.

Location

Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India;Pune, Maharashtra, India

Education Qualification

8+ years of experience in IT infrastructure, cloud architecture, or related technology roles, including 5+ years designing and implementing AWS solutions. Strong enterprise customer-facing experience, AWS architecture knowledge, cloud migration and modernization, infrastructure-as-code, DevOps, CI/CD, containers, automation, communication, presentation, documentation, and stakeholder-management skills.

Desirable Skills

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional,AWS Security Certification,AWS Networking Certification,AWS DevOps Certification,Well-Architected Reviews,FinOps,AWS Cost Optimization,Managed Services,Regulated Environments,POCs,Statements of Work,Technical Assessments,Pre-Sales,Solution Development

Experience

8 to 12 Years