Senior AWS Solution Architect – Modernisation

🕒 March 24

🌐 South Africa, Spain, +1 more countries – Remote

🇿🇦 South Africa – Remote 🇪🇸 Spain – Remote 🇵🇹 Portugal – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

💻 Solutions Engineer

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Cloud Bridge

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2018

💼 Consulting

🎯 Recruiter

🤝 B2B

Consulting • Recruitment • B2B

Cloud Bridge is a tech recruitment agency specializing in AWS and cloud/IT roles. The company connects cloud engineers, architects, and IT professionals with global clients and also recruits for its own internal team, focusing on remote and international placements. As part of Cloud Bridge and aligned with AWS (an AWS Premier Partner), it emphasizes deep cloud expertise to match technical talent with organizations using AWS.

📋 Description

• Engage with customers to understand legacy application and database environments • Define modernisation strategies focused on database migration, re-platforming, and serverless adoption • Design scalable, secure, and cost-optimised AWS architectures • Provide technical leadership to internal teams and customers as a trusted advisor • Lead modernisation efforts for SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and NoSQL databases • Drive migrations using AWS Database Migration Service, Schema Conversion Tool, and Babelfish for Aurora • Implement Amazon RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, and ElastiCache to replace legacy databases • Optimise database performance through sharding, partitioning, and caching • Architect solutions using AWS Lambda, API Gateway, Step Functions, and EventBridge • Support decomposition of monolithic applications into microservices • Define event-driven and asynchronous processing patterns • Automate database deployments with Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, and AWS CDK • Integrate database changes into CI/CD pipelines using Flyway or Liquibase • Define observability and monitoring strategies with CloudWatch, X-Ray, and Prometheus • Develop modernisation frameworks, methodologies, best practices, and packaged offerings • Help shape AWS MAP-funded modernisation engagements • Mentor junior architects and engineers

🎯 Requirements

• AWS Database Services – RDS (PostgreSQL/MySQL/SQL Server), Aurora, DynamoDB, ElastiCache • Experience with AWS DMS, SCT, and heterogeneous migrations • Terraform, CloudFormation, and CDK • AWS Lambda, Step Functions, API Gateway, and EventBridge • GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline, and database schema versioning with Flyway/Liquibase • AI-powered development experience • IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager, AWS Backup, and GDPR considerations • Query tuning, indexing, caching, and connection pooling • Proven experience in customer-facing solution architecture or technical consulting • Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to business and technical stakeholders • Experience leading technical teams and mentoring engineers • Ability to define modernisation roadmaps and business cases • Desirable: Redshift, Neptune, Timestream, or other AWS data services • Desirable: GCP/Azure and hybrid cloud environments • Desirable: machine learning and analytics pipelines on AWS • Desirable: AWS MAP-funded modernisation projects

🏖️ Benefits

• 25 Days Paid Time-off • Birthday Leave • Company Bonus Scheme • Flexible Working • Early Friday Finish (Monthly) • Company Laptop and Peripherals • Company Sabbatical Scheme • Personalised Training & Development Plan • Annual Wellness Allowance • Company Events • Private Health Insurance • Wellbeing support • Mental Health Champions • Calm app subscription