AWS Architect – Terraform, DevOps, and Security

Sutherland is a global leader in driving business and digital transformation, and exceptional experiences along the entire journey of our client’s engagement with their customers. With over 35 years of experience, we combine deep domain expertise and extensive knowledge in proven optimization with both proprietary and partnered tools and platforms to drive growth, efficiency, and productivity across organizations. 

Sutherland brings together our people, processes, products and platforms across cognitive artificial intelligence (AI), intelligent automation, advanced analytics and digital services to create unique solutions for the industries that we service. The core values of remaining agile, outside-the-box thinking, uncompromising integrity and flawless execution are key pillars of the company.

We serve marque brands across Healthcare, Insurance, Banking and Financial Services, Communications, Media and Entertainment, Technology, Travel and Logistics and Retail. Sutherland has 212 unique and independent inventions associated with several patent grants in critical technologies in the US and UK.

We are looking for a highly skilled AWS Architect with hands-on experience in Terraform-based infrastructure automation, DevOps practices, and AWS Landing Zone design. The ideal candidate will have a strong command over observability, monitoring, and AWS-native security services and be proficient in core AWS services including Lambda, S3, and SQS. This role will play a key part in designing scalable, secure, and resilient cloud-native solutions for enterprise workloads.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and implement secure and scalable AWS architectures including Landing Zone configurations.
• Develop and manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, ensuring repeatability and compliance.
• Lead cloud adoption strategy with focus on DevOps automation, CI/CD pipeline integration, and environment consistency.
• Implement observability and monitoring frameworks using services like CloudWatch, X-Ray, AWS Config, and third-party tools.
• Ensure robust security and governance, leveraging services such as IAM, KMS, GuardDuty, Security Hub, and AWS WAF.
• Architect serverless solutions using AWS Lambda, with integrations across S3, SQS, API Gateway, and other AWS services.
• Work with application and operations teams to implement highly available and fault-tolerant systems.
• Participate in architecture reviews, cost optimization initiatives, and Well-Architected Framework assessments.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• 8+ years of IT experience, with at least 5 years in AWS cloud architecture.
• Proficient in Terraform, with a strong understanding of modular IaC and reusable design patterns.
• Strong background in DevOps tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions, CodePipeline, CodeBuild).
• Proven experience in setting up and managing AWS Landing Zones (Control Tower or custom).
• Deep knowledge of AWS services:
• Compute: Lambda, EC2
• Storage: S3
• Messaging: SQS
• Networking: VPC, Route 53, Load Balancers
• Security: IAM, KMS, GuardDuty, Security Hub
• Observability: CloudWatch, X-Ray, AWS Config
• Familiarity with compliance standards (e.g., HIPAA, SOC2, ISO 27001) and cloud security best practices.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and documentation skills.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional (preferred).

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in multi-account AWS environments and service control policies (SCPs).
• Exposure to containerized workloads (ECS/EKS) and microservices architecture.
• Familiarity with FinOps, cost tracking, and tagging strategies.