AWS Golden Jacket Architect (6-Month Contract)

Roles & Responsibilities

1. Drive enterprise cloud strategy, architecture excellence, security, and operational efficiency.

2. Design secure, scalable, resilient, and cost-optimized multi-account AWS environments using the AWS Well-Architected Framework.

3. Manage cloud migration, modernization, disaster recovery, security, compliance, reliability, and FinOps.

4. Handle stakeholder management, architecture governance, mentoring, and executive-level communication.

Ideal Candidate

1Strong AWS Golden Jacket Profile with deep expertise in AWS architecture, cloud transformation, platform engineering, and enterprise-scale cloud operations

2Mandatory (Experience 1): Must have 8+ years of overall IT experience, including at least 5+ years of strong hands-on AWS work (consistent with holding the Golden Jacket).

3Mandatory (Experience 2): Must have experience designing secure, scalable, resilient, and cost-optimized multi-account AWS environments using the AWS Well-Architected Framework.

4Mandatory (Tech skill 1): Must have strong hands-on knowledge of core AWS services, AWS Organizations, Control Tower, IAM, VPC, Transit Gateway, EC2, S3, RDS / Aurora, Lambda, EKS / ECS, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, AWS Config, and Security Hub

5Mandatory (Tech skill 2): Must have hands-on expertise in Terraform / CloudFormation, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD, Git, containers, and automation.

6Mandatory (Skill): Must have a strong understanding of cloud migration, modernization, disaster recovery, security, compliance, reliability, and FinOps.

7Mandatory (Certification): Must hold current AWS Golden Jacket recognition, with active AWS certifications across Architecture, Development, Operations, Security, Networking, Data, and Machine Learning.

8Mandatory (Communication): Must have excellent stakeholder management, architecture governance, mentoring, and executive-level communication skills.

9Mandatory (Note1): This is a 6-month contract role. Candidate must be comfortable with the contract engagement and able to join immediately (urgent — onboarding within ~a week)