The Role
Design, modernize, and optimize cloud-native applications on AWS using microservices, containers, and serverless patterns. Lead architecture reviews, migrate monoliths to microservices, implement CI/CD and IaC, ensure scalability, security, cost-optimization, and support observability and compliance requirements.
Summary Generated by Built In
We are seeking an AWS Application Architect to design, modernize, and optimize cloud-native
applications on AWS. This role focuses on application architecture, microservices design,
modernization of legacy systems, best-practice implementation, and ensuring secure, scalable, and
cost-efficient application solutions on AWS.
Key Responsibilities
• Design and implement cloud-native applications using microservices, containers, and serverless
patterns.
• Develop modernization strategies for legacy monolithic applications migrating to AWS.
• Architect API-driven and event-driven application patterns using API Gateway, EventBridge,
SNS/SQS, and Step Functions.
• Define application-level scalability, performance, security, and cost-optimization best practices.
• Lead architecture reviews, design patterns, and reusable components for engineering teams.
• Support application integration with AWS services (RDS, DynamoDB, OpenSearch, ElastiCache, S3,
etc.).
• Re-architect monoliths to microservices or modular distributed systems.
• Build containerized application platforms using Docker and Amazon EKS/ECS.
• Design serverless-first architectures using AWS Lambda, Fargate, SQS/SNS, EventBridge, and
DynamoDB.
• Modernize CI/CD application delivery workflows using AWS CodeSuite or GitHub Actions.
DevOps & Automation (Application-Focused)
• Implement CI/CD pipelines for application development and deployment (CodePipeline, GitHub
Actions, Jenkins, Harness).
• Automate application environment provisioning using Terraform, AWS CDK, or CloudFormation.
• Define deployment strategies (blue/green, canary, feature flags) for zero-downtime releases.
• Support application logging, metrics, API analytics, and distributed tracing (CloudWatch, X-Ray,
Datadog, OpenTelemetry).
Security & Compliance
• Apply application security best practices (IAM, Secrets Manager, Cognito, KMS, VPC security).
• Support compliance requirements such as SOC2, PCI-DSS, or HIPAA through secure architecture.
Required Skills & Experience
• 10+ years in software engineering or cloud application architecture.
• 5+ years of hands-on AWS experience across compute, networking, storage, databases, and
security.
• Strong experience in Java /.NET Core / Python microservice development and architecture.
• Expertise in Kubernetes/EKS, Docker, and serverless architectures.
• Proficiency in IaC tools: Terraform, AWS CDK, or CloudFormation.
Requirements
Nice to Have
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional or AWS DevOps Engineer.
• Experience with hybrid/multi-cloud application architecture.
Soft Skills
• Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting ability.
• Excellent collaboration with development, DevOps, QA, and business stakeholders.
• Ability to mentor engineers and lead architecture discussions.
Skills Required
- 10+ years in software engineering or cloud application architecture
- 5+ years hands-on AWS experience across compute, networking, storage, databases, and security
- Experience in Java, .NET Core, or Python microservice development and architecture
- Expertise in Kubernetes/EKS and Docker
- Experience with serverless architectures (AWS Lambda, Fargate)
- Proficiency in IaC: Terraform, AWS CDK, or CloudFormation
- Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines (CodePipeline, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Harness)
- Designing API-driven and event-driven patterns (API Gateway, EventBridge, SNS/SQS, Step Functions)
- Experience with AWS data services (RDS, DynamoDB, OpenSearch, ElastiCache, S3)
- Observability and tracing experience (CloudWatch, X-Ray, Datadog, OpenTelemetry)
- Application security best practices (IAM, Secrets Manager, Cognito, KMS, VPC security) and compliance support (SOC2, PCI-DSS, HIPAA)
- Strong problem-solving, collaboration, and ability to mentor/lead architecture discussions
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional or AWS DevOps Engineer
- Experience with hybrid/multi-cloud application architecture
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The Company
What We Do
Sputnik Solutions Inc is a partner for IT excellence, providing customized, high-quality IT staffing, development, support, and managed services. The company builds its solutions on the collective experience, customer successes, and best practices of its technology experts, serving as an innovative provider of information technology and outsourcing services based in Schaumburg, Illinois.
