Principal AWS Cloud Architect
Location
cape town, city of cape town metropolitan municipality
Job Type
Full-time
Category
Other-General
Posted
June 16, 2026
Responsibilities
- 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 the 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 CloudFormation, and AWS CDK.
- Provide architectural leadership for cloud migration, application modernization, containerization, and serverless initiatives.
- Collaborate with engineering, DevOps, security, and application teams to implement CI/CD and platform automation strategies.
- Drive cloud...