AWS Cloud Solution Lead / Architect

10 - 15 years

35 - 40 Lacs

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Northern Trust is looking for a AWS Cloud Solution Lead / Architect. This person will work within a global team to architect and design multi-platform cloud solutions for business app teams migrating functions to the cloud. This can include, but is not limited to, conducting technical cloud assessment, guiding the CloudOps Team, working with various technology teams to architect best practices, secure and automated solution for application migration.

Responsibilities
  • Work as part Global Architecture team to deliver key technology capabilities to support business strategy and the modernization of core IT service.
  • Lead definition of new architectural standards for evolving or emerging cloud capabilities in alignment with other IT towers.
  • Define and enforce governance, security, and compliance standards across AWS and Azure environments.
  • Architect scalable, highly available, and resilient infrastructure solutions using AWS services.
  • Collaborate with DevOps teams to automate Landing Zone deployment using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform, Bicep, or ARM templates.
  • Design and implement AWS landing zones using AWS Control Tower and AWS Organizations
  • Define and enforce security policies and best practices for AWS and Azure environments
  • Configure secure and performant AWS networks, including VPCs, subnets, security groups, and network access controls
  • Monitor and optimize cloud resource utilization and cost
  • Collaborate with development teams to ensure architectures are aligned with business requirements
  • Provide technical leadership and guidance to other team members
  • Perform risk assessments, security reviews, and architecture evaluations for new projects and technologies.
  • Stay current with emerging cloud technologies and industry best practices
  • Design and maintain secure cloud architectures leveraging Microsoft Sentinel, Defender for Cloud, Intune, Entra ID (Azure AD), and AWS native security services.
  • Lead incident or RCA on events that occur which impaired operations within the Cloud Infrastructure domain and develop mitigation approaches.
  • Lead and provide guidance on disaster recovery and resiliency controls.
Requirements
  • Expertise in modern Platform Engineering principles with tools like Terraform, Bicep, CDK, GitHub Actions, and Azure DevOps, understanding of infrastructure as code, CI/CD, monitoring, and cost optimization
  • Experience in developing architecture standard and guard rails to align with Security and Information polices.
  • Experience in deploying infrastructure into cloud platforms to utilize native capacities.
  • Experience of delivering Hybrid Cloud architecture
  • Experience of delivering Applications within Cloud Landing Zone configuration
  • Knowledge of containerization and orchestration (Docker, Azure Kubernetes Service).
  • Extensive experience with infrastructure-as-code and ability to advise on best practices to maintain a healthy pipeline.
  • A high degree of self-motivation and the ability to adapt quickly to new tasks.
  • Strong problem-solving and communication skills.

Minimum Qualifications
  • Bachelor s Degree (Engineering) in computer science or IT or relevant field.
  • 10+ years of experience in Cloud Architecture and delivery of variety of cloud host technologies.
  • 7+ years of hands-on experience with AWS (required) and Azure (preferred) Cloud Native services.

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