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Dear Hiring Manager,
I am excited to apply for the Solutions Architect position at Amazon Web Services (AWS) Singapore. With a proven track record designing scalable cloud architectures and enabling enterprise cloud adoption across APAC, I am enthusiastic about bringing my technical leadership and customer-focused approach to AWS. I am particularly drawn to AWS’s mission to help organizations innovate faster and operate more efficiently — a mission that aligns with my commitment to translate business needs into resilient, cost-effective technical solutions.
Over the past seven years, I have worked as a cloud architect and technical lead for regional firms and consultancies, helping clients migrate legacy systems and modernize application stacks. Most recently at OrionTech Pte Ltd, I led a migration program that transitioned 50+ applications to AWS, leveraging services such as EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, RDS, and S3 combined with Infrastructure as Code using CloudFormation and Terraform. That program reduced infrastructure costs by 30% and improved release frequency by 60% through automated CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins and AWS CodePipeline). I also designed a multi-account security baseline and implemented centralized logging and monitoring with CloudWatch, ELK, and Prometheus/Grafana, which improved incident response time by 40%. My hands-on experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), networking (VPC, Transit Gateway), and identity & access management (AWS IAM, SSO) has equipped me to guide customers from strategy to implementation.
What excites me about joining AWS is the opportunity to combine deep technical expertise with customer advocacy at scale. I thrive on engaging with product, engineering, and executive stakeholders to craft architectures that align with business objectives — whether that is improving time-to-market, ensuring compliance across Singapore and ASEAN regulations, or optimizing TCO for high-traffic e-commerce and fintech platforms. I am passionate about mentoring engineering teams and enabling internal enablement programs; at OrionTech I instituted quarterly architecture reviews and workshops that raised team proficiency in cloud-native patterns and security best practices. I am confident I can help AWS customers accelerate their cloud journeys while adopting best-practice architectures that are secure, resilient, and cost-efficient.
I would welcome the opportunity to discuss how my experience designing large-scale cloud solutions and my customer-centric approach can contribute to AWS Singapore’s mission. Thank you for considering my application — I look forward to the possibility of speaking with you and exploring how I can support your customers’ transformation goals.
Sincerely,
Grace Tan
