Afarax is looking for a freelance AWS Solution Architect. We need you!
The project:
Our client in the Transportation, Logistics, Supply Chain and Storage sector, is seeking an experienced AWS Solution Architect to strengthen their team.
Key responsibilities:
Architectural Leadership
* Design AWS cloud architectures that are scalable, maintainable, secure, and aligned with enterprise and operational requirements.
* Identify opportunities for cost optimization, performance improvements, and platform-level innovation.
* Establish and maintain AWS architectural standards, patterns, and guardrails in collaboration with Infra & Operations.
Solution Engineering & Technical Guidance
* Provide hands-on solution design for applications and platforms hosted on AWS.
* Review cloud architectures and operational setups to ensure high availability, resilience, observability, and performance.
* Support teams in making informed architectural trade-offs across compute, storage, networking, security, and automation.
* Guide the adoption of IaC (Terraform / CloudFormation), GitOps, and automated provisioning practices.
Collaboration with Infra & Ops
* Partner with Infrastructure & Operations teams on topics such as networking, security, monitoring, backup/DR, patching, and lifecycle management.
* Work with DevOps and platform engineering to define CI/CD integration, automated deployments, and environment consistency.
* Facilitate architecture reviews, solution workshops, and operational readiness assessments.
Operational Excellence & Delivery Support
* Support development and operations teams during build, deployment, and operational phases.
* Contribute to incident resolution, root cause analysis, and optimization of cloud environments.
* Define and improve runbooks, operational dashboards, performance tuning strategies, and high-availability designs.
* Ensure cloud solutions meet enterprise requirements for security, compliance, disaster recovery, and cost governance.
Innovation & Continuous Improvement
* Evaluate AWS services, architectural trends, and emerging technologies to strengthen the cloud platform.
* Promote cloud-native practices such as serverless, event-driven architectures, containerization, and managed services.
* Drive knowledge sharing and mentor engineers, platform specialists, and operations teams.
Is this you?
* 8–10+ years of experience in system architecture, cloud engineering, or infrastructure solution design.
* At least 3–5 years in AWS solution architecture in an enterprise environment.
* Strong background in infrastructure, cloud networking, security, and/or operations.
* Experience integrating applications with enterprise platforms, data services, and APIs.
* Deep expertise with AWS services (EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, RDS/Aurora, S3, CloudFront, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, Systems Manager, etc.).
* Solid understanding of cloud networking, identity & access management, observability, resilience patterns, and cost optimization.
* Hands-on experience with IaC (Terraform, CloudFormation), CI/CD pipelines, containers, and automation frameworks.
* Strong grasp of DevOps, SRE principles, monitoring, incident management, and operational lifecycle practices.
* Familiarity with microservices, API-driven integration, and event-driven architectures.
* Strong communication skills with the ability to connect technical and operational concepts.
* Comfortable interacting with platform, security, operations, and business stakeholders.
* Ability to lead by influence, mentor teams, and drive consensus among cross-functional groups.
* Analytical mindset with strong decision-making and problem-solving capabilities.
How afarax supports you?
* You benefit from our extensive network
* You will have access to projects that fit your expertise
* We help and support you throughout your project
* We offer the possibility to build a valuable and lasting partnership
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