AWS Cloud Solutions Architect

About US

LexisNexis Legal & Professional, which serves customers in more than 150 countries with 11,300 employees worldwide, is part of RELX, a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers.

About the Team

Cloud Platform Engineering, reporting to Sr. Director of SRE and Cloud Operations

About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled AWS Cloud Solutions Architect to design, implement, and manage scalable, secure, and high-performance cloud solutions on Amazon Web Services (AWS). The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in AWS cloud architecture, infrastructure automation, and security best practices. You will play a key role in developing cloud strategies, optimizing AWS workloads, and ensuring cost-effective solutions that align with business objectives.

Requirements:

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in AWS cloud architecture, infrastructure, and services.
• In-depth knowledge of AWS compute, storage, networking, and security services (EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, IAM, Route 53, CloudFront).
• Expertise in Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools like Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or AWS CDK.
• Strong understanding of DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and automation (AWS CodePipeline, GitHub Actions, Jenkins).
• Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, ECS, EKS, Fargate).
• Proficiency in scripting and automation using Python, Bash, or AWS SDKs.
• Strong knowledge of AWS security and compliance best practices.
• Ability to troubleshoot and optimize AWS workloads and cost structures.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Read, understand and make suggested improvements to code implementations in Java, C# and Python

Preferred Qualifications:

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional (strongly preferred).
• Additional AWS certifications (AWS DevOps Engineer, AWS Security Specialty, AWS Advanced Networking).
• Experience with hybrid cloud and multi-cloud architectures.
• Hands-on experience with serverless application development using AWS Lambda, API Gateway, and DynamoDB.
• Knowledge of AI/ML services on AWS (SageMaker, Rekognition, Comprehend, Bedrock etc.) is a plus.

Responsibilities:

• Architect and implement highly available, fault-tolerant AWS solutions that support business applications and services.
• Design and build secure AWS network architectures including VPCs, subnets, security groups, and VPNs.
• Develop and optimize AWS-based microservices, serverless architectures, and containerized solutions (ECS, EKS, Lambda).
• Ensure solutions adhere to the AWS Well-Architected Framework, emphasizing security, reliability, and cost-efficiency.
• Work with development teams to ensure that good technology choices are made for long term operational ownership and stability

• Implement Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or AWS CDK.
• Automate provisioning, configuration management, and deployments using AWS Systems Manager, Ansible, Python, Go, or CI/CD pipelines.
• Leverage AWS Lambda, Step Functions, and EventBridge to build serverless automation solutions.
• Design and implement AWS observability solutions using AWS-native and third-party tools to ensure system reliability and performance.
• Deploy and configure AWS CloudWatch for metrics, logs, and alarms to proactively monitor cloud environments.
• Implement distributed tracing and log aggregation using AWS X-Ray, CloudWatch Logs, and Amazon OpenSearch Service.
• Configure and manage AWS CloudTrail for auditing and security monitoring.
• Develop automated alerting and incident response mechanisms using
• Optimize dashboards and reporting using Amazon Managed Grafana, CloudWatch Dashboards, and Prometheus.
• Design observability solutions using 3rd party tooling including Splunk, Datadog and Coralogix

• Continuously monitor and optimize AWS workloads for performance and cost efficiency using AWS Cost Explorer, Trusted Advisor, and Auto Scaling.

• Implement AWS Savings Plans, Reserved Instances, and Spot Instances for cost optimization.
• Leverage AWS CloudWatch, AWS X-Ray, and AWS CloudTrail for monitoring, logging, and troubleshooting.

Work in a way that works for you

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organization. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals. Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive.

Working for you

We know that your wellbeing and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:

- Health Benefits: Comprehensive, multi-carrier program for medical, dental and vision benefits

- Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with match and an Employee Share Purchase Plan - Wellbeing: Wellness platform with incentives, Headspace app subscription, Employee Assistance and Time-off Programs

- Short-and-Long Term Disability, Life and Accidental Death Insurance, Critical Illness, and Hospital Indemnity - Family Benefits, including bonding and family care leaves, adoption and surrogacy benefits

- Health Savings, Health Care, Dependent Care and Commuter Spending Accounts

- Up to two days of paid leave each to participate in Employee Resource Groups and to volunteer with your charity of choice

About the Business 

LexisNexis Legal & Professional® provides legal, regulatory, and business information and analytics that help customers increase their productivity, improve decision-making, achieve better outcomes, and advance the rule of law around the world. As a digital pioneer, the company was the first to bring legal and business information online with its Lexis® and Nexis® services.

LexisNexis, a division of RELX, is an equal opportunity employer: qualified applicants are considered for and treated during employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, protected veteran status, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. We are committed to providing a fair and accessible hiring process. If you have a disability or other need that requires accommodation or adjustment, please let us know by completing our Applicant Request Support Form: https://forms.office.com/r/eVgFxjLmAK , or please contact 1-855-833-5120.

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