AWS Solutions Architect

ALGOTEQUE is an IT consultancy firm that helps startups, mid-sized and large corporations to create and deliver innovative technologies. Our team has a successful track record in designing, developing, implementing, and integrating software solutions (AI, ML, BI, Web, Automation) for Telecom, Energy, Bank, Insurance, Pharma, Automotive, Industry, e-commerce. We deliver our services both in fixed-price and time-and-materials models, helping our customers achieve their business and IT strategies.

Job Description :

We are looking for an experienced AWS Solutions Architect for a project for our client from the EdTech industry. If you want to have a real impact on shaping modern cloud architectures and enjoy combining strategic thinking with hands-on problem-solving, this role is for you. Apply and join a team where your experience truly makes a difference! Responsibilities: - Working with client stakeholders, including C-level executives, to understand business needs and define cloud transformation goals - Designing scalable, secure, and cost-effective AWS architectures (ECS/EKS, Lambda, S3, API Gateway, RDS, DynamoDB, SNS/SQS, EventBridge, VPC) - Creating target architectures and migration or modernization roadmaps for legacy systems (monolith to cloud-native or hybrid) - Identifying technical and operational risks and defining mitigation strategies - Designing and reviewing application architectures, including monoliths, microservices, REST APIs, event-driven systems, authentication, authorization, and service-to-service communication - Supporting teams in designing APIs, data flows, and integration patterns between applications and cloud services - Advising on architectural trade-offs (monolith vs microservices, synchronous vs asynchronous, serverless vs containerized) - Supporting development and operations teams in debugging complex production issues - Analyzing and correlating application logs, cloud infrastructure logs and metrics, and distributed traces - Setting up and improving logging, monitoring, and observability across the application and cloud layers - Helping teams identify root causes of performance, stability, and scalability issues - Implementing and maintaining AWS infrastructure (EC2, ECS/EKS, RDS, S3, IAM, VPC, Lambda) - Designing and improving CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Bitbucket Pipelines) - Automating environments using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, AWS CDK) - Supporting application and environment migrations to AWS - Ensuring security best practices across infrastructure and applications (IAM, network security, secrets management) - Working with development teams to meet compliance and security standards (e.g. ISO, SOC-like, or banking-grade frameworks) - Building high-availability, disaster recovery, and backup strategies - Implementing and improving monitoring, alerting, and incident response processes - Estimating cloud costs and contributing to financial modeling and pricing discussions - Continuously optimizing AWS costs and resource utilization - Advising teams on scalable, maintainable, and cost-efficient designs

Profile / Requirements :

- 3–5+ years of hands-on experience with AWS in production environments - Strong experience in designing and operating cloud-based applications, not just infrastructure - Solid background in application development or architecture (PHP, Java, or similar technologies) - Proven experience working with REST APIs, monolithic and microservice architectures, and event-driven systems - Hands-on experience in debugging applications running in cloud environments - Strong knowledge of logging, monitoring, and observability (CloudWatch, OpenSearch, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, etc.) - Experience with Docker and container orchestration (ECS and/or EKS) - Strong communication skills and the ability to work with both technical and non-technical stakeholders - Proficient level of English Nice to have: - Experience in correlating application logs with cloud infrastructure metrics to troubleshoot production issues - Experience with distributed tracing (OpenTelemetry, X-Ray) - Experience working in regulated or high-availability environments - Knowledge of performance optimization at both the application and infrastructure level - Additional AWS or DevOps certifications (DevOps Engineer, Security, SysOps, Networking)