Solution Architect AWS Cloud Migration / VMware Exit

Job Title: Solution Architect – AWS Cloud Migration / VMware Exit

Location: Charlotte, NC
Employment Type: Full Time
Job Type: Permanent / Direct Hire

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced Solution Architect / Cloud Architect with strong expertise in AWS Cloud, VMware, enterprise cloud migration, data center transformation, and modernization. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience designing and leading large-scale VMware-to-AWS migration and data center exit programs.

The architect will be responsible for defining migration strategy, target-state architecture, AWS cloud foundations, migration waves, testing, cutover, stabilization, and VMware infrastructure decommissioning.

Required Experience

• 12+ years of overall technology architecture and engineering experience.

• 5+ years of hands-on experience designing enterprise AWS cloud migration, modernization, or data center exit solutions.

• Proven experience architecting and delivering large-scale VMware / VMware Cloud (VMC) exit programs.

• Strong experience with the complete cloud migration lifecycle, including:

  • Discovery and Application Assessment

  • Infrastructure Assessment

  • Dependency Mapping

  • Migration Strategy and Planning

  • Target-State Architecture

  • AWS Landing Zone / Cloud Foundation

  • Migration Wave Planning

  • Application & Infrastructure Migration

  • Testing and Validation

  • Cutover and Go-Live

  • Production Stabilization

  • VMware Decommissioning

Key Responsibilities

• Define enterprise VMware-to-AWS migration and data center exit strategy.

• Design scalable, secure, resilient AWS target-state architectures.

• Lead architecture activities across discovery, assessment, planning, migration, cutover, stabilization, and decommissioning.

• Develop migration roadmaps, migration waves, dependency models, and execution strategies.

• Design AWS cloud foundations including networking, security, identity, governance, logging, monitoring, and operational capabilities.

• Assess existing VMware environments, virtual machines, applications, infrastructure dependencies, and workloads for migration readiness.

• Define appropriate migration and modernization approaches such as rehost, replatform, refactor, repurchase, retain, and retire.

• Develop architecture patterns for migrating enterprise workloads from VMware / VMC to AWS.

• Partner with infrastructure, application, security, networking, DevOps, and cloud engineering teams.

• Provide technical leadership during migration execution, testing, cutover, and post-migration stabilization.

• Identify migration risks, technical dependencies, gaps, and remediation strategies.

• Define strategies for VMware infrastructure retirement, application decommissioning, and data center exit.

• Ensure AWS architectures meet enterprise requirements for security, scalability, availability, performance, compliance, and cost optimization.

• Create architecture diagrams, technical design documents, migration plans, and executive-level presentations.

Must-Have Technical Skills

• AWS Cloud Architecture

• AWS Cloud Migration

• VMware / VMware vSphere

• VMware Cloud (VMC)

• VMware-to-AWS Migration

• Data Center Exit / Data Center Migration

• Enterprise Cloud Transformation

• Cloud Modernization

• AWS Landing Zone / Cloud Foundation

• Migration Strategy & Roadmap

• Application Discovery & Assessment

• Dependency Mapping

• Migration Wave Planning

• Cloud Target-State Architecture

• Infrastructure Architecture

• Cloud Networking

• Cloud Security

• Identity & Access Management (IAM)

• Testing, Cutover & Stabilization

• Infrastructure Decommissioning

Preferred AWS Skills

• Amazon EC2

• Amazon VPC

• AWS IAM

• AWS S3

• AWS RDS

• AWS CloudFormation

• AWS CloudWatch

• AWS Organizations

• AWS Control Tower

• AWS Migration Hub

• AWS Application Migration Service (MGN)

• AWS Database Migration Service (DMS)

• AWS Direct Connect

• AWS Transit Gateway

• AWS Systems Manager

• AWS Well-Architected Framework

Preferred Skills

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect or equivalent certification.

• Experience with AWS migration tools and methodologies.

• Experience with enterprise-scale data center transformation and infrastructure modernization.

• Knowledge of DevOps, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Terraform, CI/CD, and automation.

• Understanding of FinOps and AWS cost optimization.

• Experience with high availability, disaster recovery, backup, and business continuity.

• Experience working with large enterprise migration programs and cross-functional technical teams.

Core Search Keywords

Solution Architect, AWS Solution Architect, Cloud Architect, AWS Architect, Enterprise Architect, Cloud Migration Architect, AWS Cloud Architect, VMware Architect, VMware Migration, VMware-to-AWS, VMC, VMware Cloud, VMware Exit, AWS Migration, Cloud Migration, Data Center Exit, Data Center Migration, Cloud Modernization, Enterprise Cloud Transformation, AWS Landing Zone, AWS Cloud Foundation, Migration Strategy, Migration Roadmap, Migration Waves, Application Discovery, Application Assessment, Dependency Mapping, Rehost, Replatform, Refactor, AWS EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, Control Tower, Migration Hub, AWS MGN, DMS, Direct Connect, Transit Gateway, Cloud Security, Cloud Networking, Infrastructure Architecture, Decommissioning.

Location

Charlotte, NC

Employment Type

Full Time / Permanent