Cloud Migration Architect – AWS
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Cloud Migration Architect leading AWS MAP assessments and Mobilize planning. Designing secure landing zones, migration roadmaps, pilots, and implementation handoffs for public-sector customers.
Responsibilities:
- 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
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