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AWS Solutions Architect

ITMates United States

Services et conseil en informatique · 2-10 employés

Oct 01
Remote software-architect Senior (5-10 yrs) Contractor United States
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About the role

You will own the AWS architecture for a regulated payments platform, including managing multi-account structures, security baselines, and cost optimization. You will also lead multi-region resilience design and conduct architecture reviews to ensure high standards across engineering teams.

What they look for

AWS Terraform CDK EKS Lambda RDS Aurora MSK PCI DSS SOC 2 VPC Transit Gateway PrivateLink FinOps Infrastructure as code Cloud engineering

Requirements

The role requires over 8 years of experience in infrastructure or cloud engineering, with at least 4 years specifically architecting on AWS. Candidates must have expertise in infrastructure as code, networking, and experience working within regulated environments like PCI DSS or SOC 2.

Full description

Client: US fintech (payments platform) · Location: remote, LATAM, US Eastern overlap · Level: senior / principal · Engagement: full-time contractor

You will own the AWS architecture of a regulated payments platform: multi-account structure, network, security baseline and cost.

What you will do

  • Design and evolve the multi-account landing zone (Organizations, Control Tower, IAM Identity Center)
  • Define reference architectures for services on EKS, Lambda, RDS/Aurora and MSK
  • Lead multi-region resilience and disaster recovery design with tested RTO and RPO targets
  • Set security standards: network segmentation, KMS key strategy, secrets management
  • Run architecture reviews and Well-Architected assessments with engineering teams
  • Drive FinOps: tagging, budgets, savings plans and right-sizing

What you bring

  • 8+ years in infrastructure or cloud engineering, 4+ architecting on AWS
  • Infrastructure as code at scale with Terraform or CDK
  • Experience in PCI DSS or SOC 2 environments
  • Deep networking knowledge (VPC, Transit Gateway, PrivateLink)
  • Ability to write clear design documents and defend trade-offs in English

Nice to have

  • AWS Solutions Architect Professional or Security Specialty
  • Previous SRE or platform engineering role
  • Experience with core banking or card-processing integrations

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