AWS Cloud Architect
- Fixity Technologies
22 Hours Ago
110000-130000 per Annum
Yearly
Charlotte NC-NC
10-15 Years
Required Skills: AWS Cloud Architect, AWS Migration Architect, AWS Cloud services, enterprise cloud architecture, AWS Landing Zones, migration frameworks, EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, CloudWatch, Route 53, ELB, Auto Scaling, Backup, Disaster Recovery, CloudFormation, Terraform, DevOps, CI/CD, cloud automation, security, governance, compliance, cloud cost optimization, Axiom, stakeholder management
Job Description
We are seeking an experienced AWS Cloud Architect to lead enterprise cloud migration initiatives and design scalable, secure, and highly available AWS environments. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience planning and executing cloud migration strategies, designing AWS landing zones, and driving infrastructure modernization using AWS best practices.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end assessment, planning, architecture, and execution of application and infrastructure migrations to AWS.
- Develop AWS migration roadmaps, including discovery, dependency mapping, migration wave planning, cutover, and rollback strategies.
- Evaluate applications and recommend appropriate migration approaches such as Rehost, Replatform, Refactor, Retire, Retain, or Repurchase (6Rs).
- Design secure, scalable, resilient, and cost-optimized AWS landing zones and cloud architectures.
- Collaborate with application, infrastructure, database, networking, security, and business teams throughout migration projects.
- Provide technical leadership for AWS services including compute, networking, storage, IAM, monitoring, backup, disaster recovery, and security.
- Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and DevOps practices to automate cloud deployments.
- Identify migration risks, dependencies, security concerns, performance bottlenecks, and optimization opportunities.
- Support migration execution, testing, production cutover, post-migration validation, and hypercare activities.
Required Skills
- 8+ years of experience as an AWS Cloud Architect or AWS Migration Architect.
- Strong expertise in AWS Cloud services and enterprise cloud architecture.
- Experience designing AWS Landing Zones and migration frameworks.
- Hands-on knowledge of AWS services including EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, CloudWatch, Route 53, ELB, Auto Scaling, Backup, and Disaster Recovery.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as CloudFormation or Terraform.
- Strong understanding of DevOps, CI/CD, and cloud automation.
- Experience performing application assessments and migration planning.
- Knowledge of security, governance, compliance, and cloud cost optimization.
- Experience with Axiom is highly preferred.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- AWS Solutions Architect Professional or equivalent AWS Certification.
- Experience with enterprise-scale cloud transformation programs.
- Knowledge of hybrid cloud and multi-account AWS environments.
- Financial services or banking domain experience is a plus.
