Senior Solutions Architect
Connected Group ·www.connectedgroup.com
Apply directOur client is a leading enterprise organization in Hong Kong, renowned for its innovation, large-scale digital transformation initiatives, and mission-critical technology platforms. With a complex technology landscape supporting millions of users and high-volume transactions, the organization is investing heavily in cloud-native architecture, platform modernization, and next-generation digital capabilities.
As the Senior Solutions Architect, you will lead the design, governance, and implementation of enterprise cloud solutions across a large-scale technology environment. You will work closely with engineering, operations, and business stakeholders to develop scalable, secure, and resilient solutions leveraging AWS and Kubernetes technologies.
Responsibilities of the Role:
- Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of enterprise cloud platforms utilizing AWS and Kubernetes.
- Define and promote architecture standards, governance frameworks, and best practices for cloud-native application development.
- Partner with business and technology stakeholders to deliver scalable and secure solutions aligned with strategic business objectives.
- Design and implement microservices-based architectures, ensuring high availability, resilience, and operational excellence.
- Drive Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), automation, and CI/CD best practices to improve deployment efficiency and platform reliability.
- Evaluate emerging cloud technologies and industry trends, providing recommendations for continuous platform improvement and innovation.
- Provide technical leadership, coaching, and mentorship to engineering teams across cloud and container technologies.
- Ensure compliance with security, risk management, and regulatory requirements within cloud environments.
- Develop architectural roadmaps, technical standards, solution blueprints, and governance models.
Required Skills for the Role:
- Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline.
- At least 8 years of experience as a Solutions Architect, working within a large enterprise.
- Proven experience in enterprise solution architecture within large, complex environments.
- AWS Solutions Architect certification preferred.
- CKA or CKAD certification preferred.
- Deep expertise in AWS, including EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda, IAM, VPC, and CloudFormation/Terraform.
- Strong Kubernetes experience covering architecture, deployment, scaling, security, and operations.
- Hands-on knowledge of Helm, Istio, Operators, and container ecosystem technologies.
- Experience designing microservices, APIs, and event-driven architectures.
- Strong Infrastructure-as-Code expertise using Terraform and/or CloudFormation.
- Experience building CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, AWS CodePipeline, or similar tools.
- Knowledge of observability platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK.
- Strong understanding of cloud security, IAM, network security, and Kubernetes RBAC.