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Multi-account landing zones
AWS Organizations, Control Tower and IAM Identity Center set up with least-privilege access and guardrails defined as code.
Principal / Lead
Hire principal AWS cloud architects
AWS architects who design secure, highly available and cost-aware infrastructure — and who write down why each decision was made, so your team can run it after we leave.
Role profile
What we look for in a Principal AWS Cloud Architect
Seniority and experience are agreed in the proposal, and you interview every engineer before they start. These are the skills that interview should test.
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FinOps and cost reviews
Finding idle and oversized resources, sizing Savings Plans against real usage, and tagging so every dollar has an owner.
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Resilience and disaster recovery
Multi-AZ by default, multi-region where the business case holds, with recovery time and recovery point objectives agreed and tested.
Typical work
What a Principal AWS Cloud Architect typically works on
Examples of the scope this role is hired for. Your statement of work sets the actual deliverables and how they are accepted.
- 01An AWS reference architecture mapped to the SOC 2 controls your auditor will test
- 02Migrations from Heroku or on-premises data centers to EKS and Aurora
- 03Terraform modules covering the accounts, networking and services you run
- 04A FinOps review with savings estimated from your own usage data
Stack and tools
What this role works with day to day. Tell us your stack and we’ll say plainly which parts we can staff.
- AWS Organizations
- Amazon EKS
- Aurora PostgreSQL
- KMS
- CloudFront
- Terraform
Technology guides
Related service
Cloud & DevOps engineeringA ranked plan to shrink the cloud bill and make deploys boring — with guardrails your team keeps running after we leave.
How hiring works
Four steps, agreed in writing before anyone starts
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Tell us the role
The stack, the seniority you need, the hours you want covered, and any certifications the work requires. We reply within one business day.
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We propose engineers
A written proposal sets out who we'd put forward, their seniority and experience, the scope, and the terms. If we can't staff the role well, we say so.
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You interview every engineer
Nobody starts on your codebase until you've interviewed them and agreed. Use the skills on the role page as your interview checklist.
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Working arrangements go in the SOW
Working-hours overlap is agreed for each engagement and written into the statement of work — the shared window, who shifts hours, and how handoffs work outside it.
QuantmHill provides development teams from India for Indian startups and SMEs. Role profiles describe project capabilities; availability is confirmed for your engagement. Our team works on India Standard Time. Project working hours, availability and handoff responsibilities are agreed before kickoff.
Need specific certifications? Tell us at the start and we'll confirm whether we can staff to that requirement before you sign. There are no recruiting fees.
FAQ
Questions about hiring a Principal AWS Cloud Architect
Answered the way we would on a call. If yours isn’t here, send it — we reply within one business day.
By working from your Cost and Usage Report: right-sizing instances and databases, moving steady workloads to Savings Plans, using Spot where interruptions are acceptable, and cutting NAT gateway and data-transfer charges. Savings are estimated from your data before anything changes.
We implement the technical controls — AWS Config rules, GuardDuty, KMS encryption, logging, and evidence collection in Vanta or Drata. The audit opinion is issued by your independent CPA firm, and HIPAA compliance rests on your own policies and risk assessment.
Need specific certifications? Tell us at the start and we'll confirm whether we can staff to that requirement before you sign.
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Add a Principal AWS Cloud Architect to your team
Tell us the stack, the seniority you need and the hours you want covered. We reply within one business day, and you interview every engineer before they start.