Lead Cloud Architect (AWS/System Design)
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YOUR ROLE
As a Lead Cloud Architect, you will play a key role in shaping and driving cloud architecture across a complex enterprise environment. Working primarily within AWS, you will partner with engineering teams, business stakeholders, and customers to design scalable, secure, and resilient cloud solutions that support long-term business objectives.This role is centered around architecture ownership and system design. You will be responsible for defining solution architectures, integration strategies, security models, and cloud governance standards while ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture principles. Acting as a trusted advisor, you will help drive cloud transformation initiatives, evaluate new technologies, and provide technical direction across multiple projects and product teams.Whether your background is in Cloud Architecture, Solution Architecture, Platform Engineering, or technical leadership within DevOps, this role offers the opportunity to influence architecture at scale while remaining close to modern cloud technologies.
YOUR TASKS
- Design and evolve enterprise-scale cloud architectures primarily within AWS.
- Translate business and technical requirements into scalable, secure, and maintainable solution designs.
- Define architecture standards, best practices, and governance frameworks across multiple teams.
- Create high-level and low-level designs covering applications, infrastructure, networking, APIs, and cloud services.Design integration patterns, API strategies, authentication mechanisms, and security models.
- Lead cloud transformation and modernization initiatives.
- Guide the implementation of Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
- Ensure architectural alignment, scalability, security, performance, and operational excellence across cloud platforms.
- Conduct architecture reviews and provide technical leadership on complex solution design decisions.
- Support technical roadmap planning and technology evaluation.
- Mentor engineers and provide architectural guidance across development, platform, and DevOps teams.
- Partner with project managers, stakeholders, and customers to ensure successful solution delivery and adoption.
- Review automation frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, and engineering practices to promote DevOps excellence.
YOUR PROFILE
- You have a strong architecture mindset and proven experience designing and governing complex cloud solutions within large-scale enterprise environments.
- You possess deep expertise in AWS and Infrastructure as Code, with hands-on experience using Terraform to build and manage cloud platforms.
- You are comfortable designing end-to-end solutions that span applications, infrastructure, networking, security, APIs, and data platforms.
- You have solid experience with enterprise and solution architecture principles, cloud-native design patterns, and modern distributed systems.
- Strong knowledge of REST APIs, API Security, OAuth, SSO, Microservices, and Micro Frontend architectures is expected.
- You bring hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Helm, Docker, relational and NoSQL databases, as well as DevOps practices including CI/CD automation and configuration management using GitLab.
- Experience with Jenkins is beneficial.
- You are proficient in Python and Bash scripting and have experience developing automation workflows, AWS Lambda functions, and system integrations.
- Knowledge of Linux and Windows administration is also required.
- You have a strong understanding of Cloud Security best practices, cloud networking, observability, and monitoring, with experience using platforms such as CloudWatch and Datadog.
- An AWS Certified Solutions Architect certification is highly preferred.
- Excellent communication skills in English are essential, along with the ability to influence stakeholders, lead technical discussions, and mentor engineering teams.
Experience in the following a plus
- OpenShift
- ArgoCD
- Multi-cloud environments
- Enterprise cloud transformation programs
- Customer-facing architecture or consulting engagements
- Platform Engineering, Principal Engineering, or DevOps leadership experience
- Experience with AI-assisted engineering tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, MCP-based solutions, or similar technologies
What you will love about working here?
- We care about all our employees and want them to feel as comfortable as possible. That's why we offer them health insurance from the first days, regardless of the probationary period.
- The gift from the company - Christmas holidays from 25 December to 31 December.
- Сooperation with Superhumans center and Veteran HUB. Capgemini Engineering has supported the launch of psychological rehabilitation department of Superhumans. Our team also donnated over UAH 500 000 prosthetics for three Ukrainian defenders. Currently, we support psychological counseling provided by the Veteran Hub, and we have implemented a internal policy making the company friendly to military and veterans with the assistance of the Hub.
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