AWS Cloud Architect
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Summary
AWS Cloud Architect in Budapest who designs and runs multi-account AWS environments for a consultancy serving European and US clients: leads cloud migrations, builds IaC with Terraform/CDK, operates ECS Fargate and GitLab CI/CD, supports AI/GenAI workloads (Bedrock, RAG), and does pre-sales and Well-Architected reviews while mentoring engineers.
- Shaping AWS architectures and technical decisions for web applications, SaaS platforms and enterprise environments
- Leading cloud migrations and modernization projects including assessments, migration planning, server and database migration, re-platforming to containers and serverless, multi-environment and disaster-recovery setups
- Designing and operating multi-account AWS environments including Organizations, Control Tower, SCPs, hub-and-spoke networking with Transit Gateway, centralized logging and governance
- Designing and implementing Infrastructure as Code with Terraform/OpenTofu and Terragrunt, and AWS CDK for application and serverless stacks
- Architecting and operating containerized production environments on Amazon ECS Fargate including CI/CD pipelines in GitLab CI
- Designing and supporting infrastructure for AI/GenAI workloads including Amazon Bedrock, RAG and knowledge bases, document and content processing pipelines, Amazon Connect and Lex-based conversational solutions
- Running operations for production systems including observability, alerting, runbooks, on-call participation, incident reviews and continuous improvement
- Supporting sales and pre-sales including discovery calls, solution designs, AWS cost models and estimations, proposals and tender responses, architecture presentations to clients
- Delivering AWS Partner-program work including Well-Architected Framework Reviews, competency and service-delivery self-assessments, customer case studies
- Translating business requirements into technical solutions together with clients, product owners and developers
- Creating and maintaining architecture diagrams, implementation plans, technical documentation and operational runbooks
- Mentoring cloud, DevOps and development engineers; establishing reusable patterns, standards and internal tooling
- Staying current with AWS, DevOps, cloud-native and AI infrastructure trends and bringing relevant ones into delivery practice
- 6+ years of hands-on experience in cloud engineering, DevOps, infrastructure or platform engineering roles
- 4+ years of practical experience designing, building and operating AWS-based infrastructure
- Proven experience architecting and operating production-grade AWS environments including high availability, performance tuning, cost optimization, backup and disaster recovery, incident response
- Strong knowledge of AWS core services including compute, networking, storage, IAM, databases (RDS/Aurora), monitoring, security and automation
- Hands-on experience with AWS migrations and modernization including migration assessments, AWS MGN or DMS, re-platforming workloads to containers or serverless
- Experience with multi-account AWS environments including Organizations, Control Tower or Landing Zones, SCPs, Transit Gateway or hub-and-spoke networking
- Advanced Infrastructure as Code experience with Terraform or OpenTofu (Terragrunt is a plus) and familiarity with AWS CDK or CloudFormation
- Strong experience with Docker and Amazon ECS/Fargate in production; working knowledge of Kubernetes
- Python for automation, Lambda functions and tooling; comfortable with shell scripting on Linux
- Solid understanding of CI/CD, deployment automation, branching strategies and environment management
- Strong ownership, architectural thinking and communication skills; ability to lead technical discussions with both engineering teams and client stakeholders
- Excellent written and spoken English and Hungarian
- Hosting high-traffic PHP/Drupal web applications including CloudFront and CDN configuration, caching layers, WAF, EFS, Aurora
- Designing observability solutions with CloudWatch, OpenSearch, Grafana/Prometheus or similar
- Cloud security practice including IAM design, secrets management, network segmentation, encryption, secure deployment patterns, GDPR and public-sector compliance considerations
- Strong Linux system administration and troubleshooting skills
- Experience in an agency, consultancy or other client-facing technical environment
- Pre-sales experience including AWS cost modelling with the Pricing Calculator, writing proposals and tender responses, presenting architectures to non-technical stakeholders
- Active AWS certifications especially Solutions Architect Professional, DevOps Engineer Professional, Security Specialty or Advanced Networking Specialty
- AI/GenAI cloud architectures including Amazon Bedrock, LLM integrations, RAG and knowledge bases, vector databases, agent frameworks
- Amazon Connect and Lex including contact-center flows, SMS and voice bots, outbound campaigns
- Experience with AWS Partner programs including Well-Architected Framework Reviews, Migration Acceleration Program (MAP), competency or service-delivery validations
- Using AI coding agents (Claude Code or similar) in day-to-day engineering and delivery
- Advanced GitLab experience including GitLab CI/CD, Runner infrastructure, security features or administration; GitHub Actions
- TypeScript or Go in addition to Python
- Configuration management with Ansible or similar
- Serverless and event-driven patterns including Lambda, Step Functions, EventBridge, API Gateway
- Automated testing for infrastructure, security scanning, policy-as-code or compliance automation
- Building internal developer platforms, self-service infrastructure or reusable DevOps tooling
- Contributions to open-source projects or technical communities
- Interesting, complex and long-term cloud infrastructure projects for international clients across Europe and the USA
- A strategic technical role with real influence on cloud architecture, DevOps practices and engineering standards
- Continuous professional growth and training including AWS certifications
- Hands-on access to modern cloud-native, AI/GenAI and automation technologies in real enterprise environments
- Company English lessons with a native teacher
- Flexible working hours, home office options and a healthy work-life balance
- Dog-friendly downtown office in Budapest
Skills
- AI
- Ansible
- API
- API Gateway
- Aurora
- Automation
- AWS
- AWS Bedrock
- Bash
- CDK
- CI/CD
- Claude Code
- Cloud
- Cloud Native
- Cloud Security
- CloudFormation
- CloudFront
- CloudWatch
- DevOps
- Docker
- Drupal
- ECS
- Event Driven Architecture
- Eventbridge
- Fargate
- Gdpr
- Generative AI
- GitHub
- GitHub Actions
- GitLab
- Grafana
- IAM
- Infrastructure as Code
- Kubernetes
- Lambda
- Linux
- LLM
- Networking
- Observability
- OpenSearch
- OpenTofu
- PHP
- Pre-sales
- Prometheus
- Python
- RDS
- SaaS
- Secrets Management
- Serverless
- Terraform
- Terragrunt
- Test Automation
- TypeScript
- Vector Databases
- WAF