At afarax, we connect top freelance IT professionals with high-impact projects. We are currently seeking an experienced AWS Solution Architect to support one of our clients in the Transportation, Logistics, Supply Chain and Storage sector. This role offers the opportunity to shape robust AWS architectures, drive cloud innovation, and guide engineering teams across the organization.

The Mission

You will design scalable and secure AWS architectures, guide engineering teams in adopting best practices, and collaborate closely with Infrastructure & Operations to ensure cloud solutions are efficient, resilient, and aligned with enterprise standards.

Key Responsibilities

Architectural Leadership

• Design scalable, secure, and maintainable AWS architectures aligned with enterprise and operational needs.

• Identify opportunities for cost optimization, performance improvements, and architectural innovation.

• Establish and maintain AWS standards, patterns, and guardrails with Infra & Operations.

Solution Engineering & Technical Guidance

• Provide hands-on solution design for applications and platforms hosted on AWS.

• Review cloud architectures to ensure high availability, resilience, observability, and performance.

• Guide teams on architectural trade-offs across compute, storage, networking, security, and automation.

• Promote adoption of Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform / CloudFormation), GitOps, and automated provisioning.

Collaboration with Infra & Ops

• Partner with Infrastructure & Operations on networking, security, monitoring, backup/DR, patching, and lifecycle management.

• Work with DevOps and platform engineering to refine CI/CD integration and ensure deployment consistency.

• Facilitate architecture reviews, solution workshops, and operational readiness assessments.

Operational Excellence & Delivery Support

• Support teams during build, deployment, and operational phases.

• Contribute to incident resolution, root cause analysis, and environment optimization.

• Define and enhance runbooks, operational dashboards, and performance tuning practices.

• Ensure compliance with security, disaster recovery, and cost governance requirements.

Innovation & Continuous Improvement

• Evaluate AWS services and emerging technologies to enhance the cloud platform.

• Promote cloud-native paradigms such as serverless, event-driven architectures, containers, and managed services.

• Mentor engineers and platform specialists, fostering a culture of knowledge sharing and continuous improvement.

Your Profile

• 8–10+ years of experience in system architecture, cloud engineering, or infrastructure solution design.

• 3–5+ years of hands-on AWS solution architecture experience in enterprise environments.

• Strong background in infrastructure, cloud networking, security, and operations.

• Experience integrating applications with enterprise platforms, data services, and APIs.

• Deep expertise with key AWS services: EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, RDS/Aurora, S3, CloudFront, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, Systems Manager, and more.

• Solid understanding of networking, IAM, observability, resilience patterns, and cost optimization.

• Hands-on experience with IaC (Terraform, CloudFormation), CI/CD, containers, and automation.

• Strong knowledge of DevOps and SRE principles, monitoring, incident management, and operational lifecycle.

• Familiarity with microservices, API-driven, and event-driven architectures.

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to bridge technical and operational concepts.

• Comfortable collaborating with platform, security, operations, and business stakeholders.

• Ability to lead by influence, mentor teams, and drive cross-functional alignment.

• Analytical thinker with strong problem-solving and decision-making skills.

Why Work with afarax?

• Access to exclusive freelance opportunities aligned with your expertise.

• Support and guidance throughout your project.

• Opportunity to work on high-impact digital transformation initiatives.

• A long-term partnership where your expertise is recognized and valued.

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