Principal AWS Cloud Architect

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We are seeking a highly experienced Principal Cloud Architect (AWS) to partner with enterprise sales, consulting, and delivery teams in designing and positioning scalable, secure, resilient, and cost-optimized cloud solutions for clients across South Africa and the Middle East & Africa. This role serves as the senior technical authority for AWS architecture engagements, providing strategic guidance, solution leadership, and architectural governance across the full cloud lifecycle.

The successful candidate will be a trusted advisor to clients and internal stakeholders, translating business objectives into enterprise-grade cloud architectures while supporting pre-sales activities, solution design, migration strategies, modernization initiatives, and cloud transformation programs.

• Lead the architecture, design, and technical governance of enterprise-scale AWS solutions.
• Partner with sales and client stakeholders to develop compelling cloud strategies, solution architectures, and transformation roadmaps.
• Design highly available, resilient, secure, and scalable cloud platforms using AWS best practices and Well-Architected Framework principles.
• Define target-state architectures covering networking, security, identity, observability, automation, disaster recovery, and operational excellence.
• Develop and promote Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, AWS Cloud Formation, and AWS CDK.
• Provide architectural leadership for cloud migration, application modernization, containerization, and serverless initiatives.
• Collaborate with engineering, Dev Ops, security, and application teams to implement CI/CD and platform automation strategies.
• Drive cloud security, compliance, governance, and Fin Ops best practices.
• Perform architecture reviews and provide technical oversight throughout solution delivery.
• Act as a trusted advisor to clients, presenting technical solutions to executive, business, and technical audiences.
• Mentor architects and engineers while contributing to cloud capability development and thought leadership.
• Stay current with emerging AWS services, industry trends, and cloud-native technologies.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• 10+ years of experience in IT infrastructure, cloud architecture, or platform engineering, with at least 5 years focused on AWS.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional (required or strongly preferred).
• Additional AWS Specialty certifications are advantageous.
• Deep expertise across AWS services including VPC, Transit Gateway, EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, IAM, Organizations, Cloud Watch, Route 53, and AWS Backup.
• Strong experience designing enterprise networking, identity, security, and governance architectures within AWS.
• Hands-on expertise with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, AWS Cloud Formation, and/or AWS CDK.
• Strong understanding of Dev Ops and platform engineering practices, including Git, CI/CD pipelines, Docker, Kubernetes, and automation frameworks.
• Experience implementing cloud security controls, compliance frameworks, and operational monitoring solutions.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, solution presentation, and documentation skills.

• Experience leading large-scale cloud migration and modernization programs.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Azure and/or Google…