AWS Cloud Architect - Hybrid

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Position: AWS Cloud Architect

Location: Edison, NJ - Hybrid

Duration: Long Term

Job description:

Experience

• 12 - 18 years overall IT experience with 7 years of hands-on AWS cloud architecture and transformation experience

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced AWS Cloud Architect with a strong consulting and customer-facing background to lead large-scale cloud transformation initiatives. The architect will work closely with enterprise customers, AWS stakeholders, and delivery teams to design, govern and implement secure, scalable, resilient and cost-optimised cloud solutions on AWS.

The ideal candidate will possess deep expertise in cloud architecture, migration modernisation, DevOps security and operational excellence while driving business outcomes through strategic cloud adoption.

Key Responsibilities

Cloud Strategy Advisory

• Lead cloud transformation and modernization programs for enterprise customers.
• Assess existing application and infrastructure landscapes and define cloud adoption strategies.
• Conduct architecture workshops, discovery sessions and executive-level discussions.
• Develop target-state cloud architectures aligned with business and technology objectives.
• Drive AWS Well-Architected Framework reviews and remediation plans

Solution Architecture

• Design end-to-end AWS solutions covering
• Compute: EC2, Lambda, ECS, EKS
• Networking: VPC, Transit Gateway, Route 53 Direct Connect

Storage: S3, EFS, FSx

• Database Services: RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, Redshift
• Integration services: API Gateway, EventBridge, SQS, SNS

Design highly available, fault-tolerant, and disaster recovery-enabled solutions

Define multi-account AWS Landing Zone architectures.

Cloud Migration Modernization

• Lead application database and infrastructure migration initiatives
• Develop migration strategies using AWS Migration Hub Application Migration Service MGN and Database Migration Service DMS

Drive modernization initiatives including

• Microservices architecture
• Containerization
• Serverless transformation
• Event-driven architectures

Security Governance

• Implement AWS security best practices
• Design IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager, GuardDuty, Security Hub and WAF solutions
• Ensure compliance with enterprise security, regulatory, and governance requirements
• Define guardrails and governance frameworks using AWS Control Tower and Organizations

DevOps Automation

Architect CICD pipelines using AWS native and enterprise DevOps tools

• Enable Infrastructure as Code using

• Terraform
• AWS CloudFormation
• CDK
• Drive automation for provisioning, deployment, monitoring and operations

Stakeholder Management

• Engage with customer CXOs, Enterprise Architects, Program Managers and Engineering teams.
• Present architecture solutions, migration approaches and business value propositions
• Lead architecture reviews and obtain sign-offs from customer stakeholders.

Delivery Leadership

• Provide technical leadership to implementation teams
• Mentor cloud engineers and architects
• Review solution designs and ensure adherence to architectural standards
• Support presales pursuits, solution proposals and effort estimations

Soft Skills

• Excellent client-facing and consulting skills
• Strong stakeholder management abilities
• Executive communication and presentation skills
• Problem-solving and analytical thinking
• Ability to lead globally distributed teams
• Ideal Profile for AWS ProServe
• Former AWS Professional Services consultant, architect, or equivalent
• Experience leading enterprise cloud transformations valued at multimillion-dollar engagements
• Deep understanding of AWS WellArchitected Framework, Migration Acceleration Program MAP Landing Zone Accelerator and enterprise governance models
•  Proven experience working directly with C-level stakeholders and large global enterprises                                                                                                                              

Skills

Mandatory Skills: AWS Cloud Architecture