Employer description & source details
Architecture Technical Leadership and Decision Making Lead the design and delivery of secure, scalable, resilient, and supportable AWS solutions from initial requirements through production operation. Translate business, security, compliance, and operational requirements into architecture decisions, implementation plans, and reusable platform patterns. Evaluate technical options and make clear, risk-based recommendations that balance security, reliability, maintainability, delivery speed, and cost. Question assumptions and respectfully challenge designs or delivery approaches that conflict with enterprise standards, least-privilege principles, reliability objectives, or long-term platform health. Participate in architecture and design reviews, document key decisions and tradeoffs, and ensure operational readiness before production adoption. Act as a senior technical escalation point, lead complex infrastructure initiatives, and coach team members through design and operational decisions. AWS Platform Governance Identity and Privileged Access Own and continuously improve Assent's AWS multi-account environment using AWS Organizations, AWS Control Tower, organizational units, account lifecycle controls, guardrails, and Service Control Policies. Architect and operate AWS IAM Identity Center, IAM roles and policies, permission sets, trust relationships, permission boundaries, federation, and cross-account access patterns. Apply least privilege by default. Ensure elevated access is approved, time-bound where supported, protected by strong authentication, logged, regularly reviewed, and separated from day-to-day identities. Maintain controlled break-glass access and prevent shared credentials, unmanaged access paths, unnecessary standing privilege, and unreviewed administrativ
Extracted skills: python, sql, postgresql, aws, terraform, recruiting, security, operations