AWS CLOUD ARCHITECT

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Job Summary: Design the cloud foundation of a critical platform on AWS with a focus on security, scalability, and efficiency, directly influencing architecture and governance from the outset. Key Highlights: 1. Design and define end-to-end cloud architecture on AWS 2. Establish security, governance, and compliance standards 3. Collaborate on pipelines, observability, and shift-left security DESCRIPTION At GRUPO DIGITAL, we are seeking an AWS Cloud Architect for a major banking-sector company. ### **AWS CLOUD ARCHITECT** **Design the cloud foundation of a critical platform on AWS**, focusing on security, scalability, and efficiency. You will have direct impact on architecture, governance, and best practices from day one. **Conditions** --------------- * **Work Modality: HYBRID** — 1 day/week at client’s office * **Location: MADRID** — Financial City + partial remote * **Working Hours:** 9:00 – 18:00 (Summer: 8:00 – 15:00) **Your Responsibilities** ------------- * **Define and design end-to-end cloud architecture on AWS** * Build and evolve landing zones and multi-account environments * Establish security, governance, and compliance standards * **Design networks** (VPC, Transit Gateway) and multi-region architectures * **Implement IaC** (Terraform/CloudFormation) and CI/CD automation * Collaborate with DevOps on pipelines, observability, and shift-left security * Define deployment strategies (blue/green, canary) * Optimize costs, resilience, and high availability REQUIREMENTS **Mandatory** ------------------ * **+6 years in cloud architecture (AWS)** * Proficiency in the **AWS Well-Architected Framework** * Experience with Control Tower / Organizations (multi-account) * Networking (VPC, TGW) and security (IAM, SCPs, KMS, WAF, GuardDuty) * **Infrastructure as Code** (Terraform and/or CloudFormation) * **CI/CD** (CodePipeline, GitHub Actions) * **Observability** (CloudWatch, X-Ray, OpenTelemetry) * Design of resilient, scalable, and secure architectures **Desirable** ------------ * **Advanced experience with AWS services** (EKS/ECS, Lambda, API Gateway, etc.) * Multi-region architectures and disaster recovery strategies * Intermediate English **What We Offer** ----------------- * **Competitive salary**, based on experience * **Permanent contract** or option for freelance agreement * 22 working days of **annual leave** * **Flexible compensation plan**: Private health insurance, childcare vouchers, transport vouchers * **Training programs** in Technology and Soft Skills * Referral program: €500 per referred candidate who joins us About us … **Grupo Digital** We are an IT consultancy with a team of over 150 technology professionals. You’ll find stable projects with leading national and international clients, developing solutions in application development, systems architecture, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, Cybersecurity, Big Data, etc. More information on our website: **www.grupodigital.eu**