AWS Cloud Solution Architect

Hello, Greetings!!! This is Abhishek from Jconnect INC. Below is the requirement with my client. Please let me know if you are available for this role. Title: AWS Cloud Solution Architect Location: Alpharetta, GA Duration: Full Time Job Description: Cloud Security & Compliance: Deep expertise in AWS security controls, IAM, SCPs, and compliance frameworks relevant to financial services. • Solution Design: Proven ability to design scalable, secure architectures and translate business requirements into technical solutions. • Technical Leadership: Experience leading cross-functional teams, conducting stakeholder workshops, and presenting architectural decisi ons to both technical and non-technical audiences. • DevOps & Automation: Hands-on experience with Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, and automation of cloud infrastructure. • Communication: Strong documentation, presentation, and stakeholder management skills. • Qualifications • Relevant certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect, TOGAF, CISSP) are highly desirable. • 10+ years of experience in IT, with at least 5 years in cloud architecture and security roles ,Roles & Responsibilities The Solution Architect is responsible for designing, implementing, and overseeing cloud security and compliance solutions for AWS environments supporting E-Trade operations. This role ensures alignment with security policies, industry standards, and regulatory requirements, while driving technical excellence and operational efficiency. Key Responsibilities • Assessment & Roadmap Development: Lead discovery and assessment of current AWS accounts, IAM roles, SCPs, and Terraform modules. Identify security gaps and develop a phased implementation roadmap in collaboration with stakeholders. • Security Policy & Control Design: Design and validate Service Control Policies (SCPs) to enforce least privilege, root user lockdown, and IP whitelisting. Ensure policies are tested in non-production environments before rollout. • IAM Role Management: Audit and refactor IAM roles to eliminate over-permissioning, deprecate shared roles, and implement least-privilege, function-specific access with clear permission boundaries. • Break-Glass Access: Develop and document secure, auditable break-glass access procedures, including MFA enforcement, time-bound access, and approval workflows. • Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Review and update Terraform modules to ensure secure-by-default configurations, including encryption, tagging, and logging. Oversee peer reviews and validation in staging environments. • Testing & Validation: Lead functional and negative testing of IAM and SCP changes, ensuring compliance with security benchmarks and operational requirements. • Production Rollout & Documentation: Oversee deployment of validated controls and modules to production, monitor for anomalies, and ensure comprehensive documentation and knowledge transfer. This role leads end to end AWS security modernization : assessing existing accounts, IAM roles, SCPs and Terraform modules to define a phased remediation roadmap. It designs and validates security controls including least privilege SCPs, IAM role rationalization and secure security mechanisms. It drives secure-by-default IaC through Terraform enhancements, peer reviews and staged validation. Responsibilities include leading functional testing, coordinating production rollouts and ensuring thorough documentation and knowledge transfer. Requires deep AWS security expertise, strong solution design capability, hands-on DevOps/Terraform experience and proven technical leadership across cross functional teams. Candidates should have 10+ years in IT, relevant cloud/security certifications, and strong communication and stakeholder management skills. IF you are interested, please send me your updated resume ASAP with below details: Full Name: Current Location/Zip: Contact Number: E-Mail Id: Alternate Email Id: Visa/Work Permit Status: Current Rate/Salary: Expected Base Salary: Notice Period/Availability to Start: Skype ID: Willingness to relocate to job location: Any Relocation Concern (family/house/weather): Current/Previous Employer Name: Preferred Interview timings (Specify Time zone): Any other job opportunity in process & at which stage: Overall Experience Summary: LinkedIn URL: Looking forward for your response.. Thanks and Regards, Abhishek Singh Jconnect Infotech Inc. 168 Barclay Center Ste. 347, Cherry Hill, NJ 08034 Contact: 856-770-2379 Email: [email protected]