AWS Architect, Trilogy (Remote) - $100,000/year USD
Crossover · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
- Hybrid
- Full-time
- $100,000 / year
- Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Job highlights
- Manage uptime for 50+ SaaS products on AWS.
- Drive availability beyond 99.9% with automation.
- Handle incident response and root cause analysis.
- Author runbooks and architect deployment paths.
- Utilize AI tooling for efficiency and scale.
About the role
AWS Architect
You're the engineer who maintains uptime for 50+ SaaS products when others are still figuring things out. We need DevOps professionals capable of stepping into unknown AWS environments, restoring order, and driving availability beyond 99.9% through genuine monitoring, automation, and root cause analysis. You'll break down complex initiatives into single-day increments, deliver production-ready Python or JavaScript, and leverage AI as a force multiplier.
While most organizations talk about "cloud transformation" while hand-holding individual servers, we're scaling reliability across a portfolio of acquired products where original teams have departed and documentation is incomplete. The opportunity: use agents and contemporary tooling to understand unfamiliar systems 5–10x faster, document your findings, and automate solutions so failures don't recur. Rather than judging you on certifications and vendor badges, we'll observe how you diagnose issues in real time, author a genuine 5-Whys that identifies a single preventable cause, and construct automations that withstand production conditions.
This is not an L2 "execute the runbook" position. Here, you author the runbooks, architect the deployment path from dev through staged to 10% and full rollout with soak periods and rollback conditions, and create the monitoring that surfaces edge cases. You reject risky changes before deployment. You distinguish infrastructure failures under your ownership from application bugs that Engineering resolves, and you route permanent remediation to the appropriate team.
You'll operate at the engineering center of reliability, managing infrastructure initiatives, incident response with RCAs, and change requests accompanied by copy-paste-ready runbooks. If you've already taken ownership of a significant SaaS offering and want to apply that discipline across a fleet, this is your opportunity. Bring advanced AWS knowledge, production-quality development skills, disciplined scope management, and daily, mission-critical use of AI tooling. If you're prepared to maintain operational continuity, please apply.
What You Will Be Doing
- Advanced infrastructure migrations, consolidations, production-quality automations, and monitoring adjustments
- Diagnosing production incidents, deploying immediate remediations, and authoring root cause analyses with permanent corrections assigned to owning teams
- Authoring, validating, and executing production changes, including assessing whether a proposed change meets safety criteria
What You Won’t Be Doing
- Spending your time in Jira and endless status syncs - we value engineers who deliver solutions, not merely document issues
- Supporting legacy systems indefinitely - you'll have the mandate to pursue substantial improvements
- Waiting on bureaucratic approval processes - you'll possess the authority to implement immediate fixes during incidents
AWS Architect Key Responsibilities
- Advance reliability and uniformity of cloud infrastructure across our expanding product suite by deploying comprehensive monitoring, automation, and AWS best practices.
Basic Requirements
- Deep AWS infrastructure expertise (this is our primary platform - other cloud experience alone won't cut it)
- Experience managing production infrastructure at a scale of 1,000+ containers
- Experience scripting with Python and Bash for day-to-day administration operations
- Experience managing and migrating production databases with multiple engines (including MySql, Postgres, Oracle, MS-SQL)
- Experience with infrastructure automation (Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation)
About Trilogy
Hundreds of software businesses run on the Trilogy Business Platform. For three decades, Trilogy has been known for 3 things: Relentlessly seeking top talent, Innovating new technology, and incubating new businesses. Our technological innovation is spearheaded by a passion for simple customer-facing designs. Our incubation of new businesses ranges from entirely new moon-shot ideas to rearchitecting existing projects for today's modern cloud-based stack. Trilogy is a place where you can be surrounded with great people, be proud of doing great work, and grow your career by leaps and bounds.
There is so much to cover for this exciting role, and space here is limited. Hit the Apply button if you found this interesting and want to learn more. We look forward to meeting you!
Working with us
This is a full-time (40 hours per week), long-term position. The position is immediately available and requires entering into an independent contractor agreement with Crossover as a Contractor of Record. The compensation level for this role is $50 USD/hour, which equates to $100,000 USD/year assuming 40 hours per week and 50 weeks per year. The payment period is weekly. Consult www.crossover.com/help-and-faqs for more details on this topic.
Crossover Job Code: LJ-5236-IN-Chennai-AWSArchitect.027
Key skills/competency
- AWS Architecture
- DevOps
- Infrastructure Migrations
- Automation
- Monitoring
- Root Cause Analysis
- Python Scripting
- Bash Scripting
- Infrastructure as Code
- Database Management
Skills & topics
- AWS Architect
- DevOps
- Cloud Infrastructure
- SaaS
- Automation
- Monitoring
- Incident Response
- Root Cause Analysis
- Python
- JavaScript
- AWS
- Terraform
- Ansible
- CloudFormation
- Production Support
- Reliability Engineering
- System Administration
- Cloud Migration
How to get hired
- Tailor your resume: Highlight deep AWS expertise, container management (1000+), and Python/Bash scripting.
- Showcase automation skills: Emphasize experience with Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation for infrastructure management.
- Demonstrate problem-solving: Provide examples of diagnosing production incidents and authoring root cause analyses.
- Quantify achievements: Use metrics like improved uptime (99.9%+) and successful infrastructure migrations.
- Highlight AI proficiency: Mention daily, mission-critical use of AI tooling in your application.
Technical preparation
Behavioral questions
Frequently asked questions
- What specific AWS services are most critical for this AWS Architect role at Crossover?
- Given the focus on maintaining uptime for 50+ SaaS products and driving availability beyond 99.9%, deep expertise in core AWS services like EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, and Lambda is essential. Experience with container orchestration services such as ECS or EKS, and automation tools like CloudFormation or Terraform, will also be highly valued for this AWS Architect position.
- How does Crossover evaluate candidates for the AWS Architect role beyond certifications?
- Crossover prioritizes practical skills and real-world application. For the AWS Architect role, they will observe your ability to diagnose issues in real-time, author a genuine 5-Whys for root cause analysis, and construct robust automations. Your experience in managing large-scale production infrastructure (1,000+ containers) and scripting with Python/Bash are more indicative of success than vendor badges.
- What is the expected experience level for an AWS Architect at Trilogy/Crossover?
- This AWS Architect role requires deep AWS infrastructure expertise and experience managing production infrastructure at a scale of 1,000+ containers. You should be comfortable authoring runbooks, architecting deployment paths, and creating monitoring systems, indicating a senior-level individual contributor with significant hands-on experience in complex cloud environments.
- How does Crossover's 'remote' work setup differ from traditional remote roles for an AWS Architect?
- This is a full-time, long-term independent contractor position. While remote, it requires a significant commitment (40 hours/week) and a focus on delivering solutions rather than spending time in status syncs. The AWS Architect will have the autonomy to implement immediate fixes during incidents, but also the responsibility to deliver production-ready code and robust automations.
- What are the key differences between this AWS Architect role and an L2 support position?
- This AWS Architect role is significantly more advanced than an L2 position. You will be authoring the runbooks, architecting deployment strategies, creating monitoring, and rejecting risky changes. You will distinguish infrastructure issues from application bugs and route remediation, rather than just executing predefined procedures.
- How important is Python and JavaScript for this AWS Architect position?
- The job description explicitly mentions delivering production-ready Python or JavaScript code. You will also need experience scripting with Python and Bash for day-to-day administration operations. Therefore, strong proficiency in Python is a key requirement for this AWS Architect role.
- What kind of database experience is required for the AWS Architect role?
- The AWS Architect needs experience managing and migrating production databases across multiple engines, including relational databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, and MS-SQL. This indicates a need for broad database administration and migration skills within the AWS environment.