Principal AWS Cloud Architect
Hybrid · Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa or Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Job Summary
Lead architecture, design, and governance of enterprise-scale AWS solutions across South Africa and MEA; drive pre-sales, transformation roadmaps, and modernization initiatives; develop highly available, secure, scalable AWS platforms; implement IaC with Terraform, CloudFormation, and CDK; provide architectural leadership for migrations, containerization, and serverless initiatives; ensure cloud security, FinOps, and Well-Architected compliance; mentor engineers and engage with clients and executives.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.
- 10+ years of experience in IT infrastructure, cloud architecture, or platform engineering, with at least 5 years focused on AWS.
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional (required or strongly preferred).
- Deep expertise across AWS services including VPC, Transit Gateway, EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, IAM, Organizations, CloudWatch, Route 53, and AWS Backup.
- Strong experience designing enterprise networking, identity, security, and governance architectures within AWS.
- Hands-on expertise with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, and/or AWS CDK.
- Strong understanding of DevOps and platform engineering practices, including Git, CI/CD pipelines, Docker, Kubernetes, and automation frameworks.
- Experience implementing cloud security controls, compliance frameworks, and operational monitoring solutions.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, solution presentation, and documentation skills.
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