Cloud Migration Architect – AWS

Job Description:

• Lead AWS MAP Assess and Mobilize engagements from discovery through executive and technical recommendations
• Evaluate business goals, organizational readiness, application portfolios, infrastructure, dependencies, security, compliance, cost, licensing, and migration risk
• Validate discovery data and recommend workload dispositions, migration groups, pilots, waves, and business-case inputs
• Design secure, resilient, cost-conscious AWS and AWS GovCloud target architectures and landing zones
• Define multi-account, identity, network, security, observability, backup, recovery, governance, automation, hybrid connectivity, and operating-model requirements
• Produce architecture diagrams and decision records documenting alternatives, constraints, tradeoffs, assumptions, and risks
• Create actionable roadmaps with workstreams, owners, milestones, dependencies, estimates, and acceptance criteria
• Develop migration and modernization strategies, workload patterns, wave plans, testing, cutover, rollback, and validation approaches
• Plan and support pilots validating architecture, connectivity, security, tooling, and operational assumptions
• Produce implementation-ready handoff packages and guide delivery teams through designs, sequencing, risks, and acceptance requirements
• Review estimates and implementation plans; serve as architecture authority for high-risk decisions and readiness reviews
• Build or validate AWS proof-of-concept environments and infrastructure as code
• Test account structures, identity, connectivity, DNS, security, logging, monitoring, backup, recovery, and migration tooling
• Troubleshoot complex design and migration-planning issues, review partner work, and create reusable patterns and standards
• Qualify MAP opportunities and define proposal and statement-of-work scope, assumptions, staffing, schedules, deliverables, and acceptance criteria
• Coordinate with customers, AWS, distributors, and specialist partners while maintaining accurate, auditable program documentation
• Build repeatable methods, templates, architecture patterns, quality standards, and handoff procedures
• Peer-review delivery artifacts, preserve evidence and decisions, ensure partner transparency and knowledge transfer, and mentor internal engineers

Requirements:

• Active AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional certification
• Eight or more years in infrastructure or cloud architecture, systems engineering, application migration, professional services, or related technical delivery, including five or more recent years of hands-on AWS experience
• Proven leadership of AWS MAP Assess engagements and the architecture and planning portions of MAP Mobilize engagements
• Experience producing portfolio assessments, business-case inputs, target architectures, migration strategies, wave plans, roadmaps, and implementation-ready handoffs
• Hands-on production migration and pilot experience, including landing zones, multi-account environments, identity, hybrid networking, security, observability, backup, recovery, governance, migration tools, and infrastructure as code
• Strong knowledge of Windows, Linux, VMware, networking, storage, identity, relational databases, backup, monitoring, and hybrid-cloud integration
• Ability to lead executive and technical workshops and produce clear diagrams, plans, estimates, decisions, and recommendations
• Strong technical writing, analysis, presentation, facilitation, troubleshooting, estimation, and risk-communication skills
• Ability to travel as required
• U.S. citizenship
• Ability to meet applicable public-sector background, public-trust, or clearance requirements
• Preferred: Additional AWS Professional or Specialty certifications and experience with MAP Migrate/Modernize
• Preferred: AWS GovCloud and public-sector or regulated-industry experience, including NIST, FedRAMP, FISMA, StateRAMP, CJIS, HIPAA, or PCI DSS
• Preferred: Experience with major enterprise platforms, AWS migration and governance services, dependency mapping, cloud economics, licensing, FinOps, and total cost of ownership
• Preferred: Consulting, professional-services, customer-facing architecture, senior presales, reusable delivery methods, or partner-led team experience
• Background check and drug testing

Benefits:

• Medical, dental, vision, life, long- and short-term disability insurance
• 401(k)
• Paid vacation, sick days, and holidays
• Dog-friendly corporate office
• Wellness incentives
• Referral bonuses