Aws solutions architect

Client: US fintech (payments platform) · Location: remote, LATAM, US Eastern overlap · Level: senior / principal · Engagement: full-time contractor

You will own the AWS architecture of a regulated payments platform: multi-account structure, network, security baseline and cost.

What you will do

• Design and evolve the multi-account landing zone (Organizations, Control Tower, IAM Identity Center)
• Define reference architectures for services on EKS, Lambda, RDS/Aurora and MSK
• Lead multi-region resilience and disaster recovery design with tested RTO and RPO targets
• Set security standards: network segmentation, KMS key strategy, secrets management
• Run architecture reviews and Well-Architected assessments with engineering teams
• Drive FinOps: tagging, budgets, savings plans and right-sizing

What you bring

• 8+ years in infrastructure or cloud engineering
• 4+ architecting on AWS
• Infrastructure as code at scale with Terraform or CDK
• Experience in PCI DSS or SOC 2 environments
• Deep networking knowledge (VPC, Transit Gateway, PrivateLink)
• Ability to write clear design documents and defend trade-offs in English

Nice to have

• AWS Solutions Architect Professional or Security Specialty
• Previous SRE or platform engineering role
• Experience with core banking or card-processing integrations