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 Originally posted on Himalayas