Note: This position is based in Torrance, CA, and requires 4 days per week working from the office.
This position is based in the USA, and the client is allowing candidates to work remotely 1 day a week within the USA
Only candidates who are currently located within the United States will be considered.
Applications from candidates residing outside the USA will not be accepted.
Role Summary:
Seeking an experienced AWS Solution Architect to define secure, scalable, resilient, and cost-effective cloud solutions, lead modernization and migration initiatives, and govern architecture from discovery through implementation.
Architecture & Solution Design:
- Define end-to-end AWS solution architectures aligned with business goals, enterprise standards, and non-functional requirements.
- Create current-state, target-state, integration, deployment, network, security, and data architecture views.
- Select fit-for-purpose managed AWS services and define reusable architecture patterns.
- Lead technical evaluations, architecture reviews, design decisions, and implementation guardrails.
WS Platform Expertise:
- Design solutions using services such as EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, API Gateway, S3, RDS/Aurora, DynamoDB, CloudFront, Route 53, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, EventBridge, SQS, SNS, Glue, Athena, and Redshift.
- pply AWS Well-Architected principles across operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, cost optimization, and sustainability.
Migration & Modernization:
- ssess application portfolios and define migration or modernization strategies.
- Develop cloud migration roadmaps, landing-zone requirements, dependency plans, and cutover considerations.
- Guide refactoring toward microservices, containers, serverless, event-driven, and API-led architectures where appropriate.
Security, Governance & Cost:
- Embed security by design, least privilege, encryption, secrets management, auditability, and compliance controls.
- Define governance guardrails, tagging, policy enforcement, service standards, and architecture decision records.
- Drive cost transparency, sizing, consumption optimization, and architectural trade-off decisions.
DevOps & Automation:
- Define infrastructure-as-code and automated delivery approaches using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or AWS CDK.
- Guide CI/CD, environment promotion, observability, release, rollback, and operational-readiness practices.
- Partner with engineering teams to automate repeatable provisioning and governance controls.
Required Skills:
- 12+ years of IT industry experience with significant experience in cloud and solution architecture.
- Deep hands-on knowledge of AWS architecture, cloud-native patterns, networking, security, integration, data, and DevOps.
- Experience delivering enterprise migration, modernization, or greenfield cloud programs.
- Strong understanding of NFRs, architecture documentation, risk management, and technology governance.
Preferred Qualifications:
- WS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional.
- n AWS specialty certification in Security, Networking, Data Analytics, or DevOps is advantageous.
- TOGAF or equivalent architecture certification.
- Manufacturing or automotive domain experience is an added advantage.
Benefits: Danta offers a compensation package to all W2 employees that are competitive in the industry. It consists of competitive pay, the option to elect healthcare insurance (Dental, Medical, Vision), Major holidays and Paid sick leave as per state law.
The rate/ Salary range is dependent on numerous factors including Qualification, Experience and Location.
