AWS Cloud Architect (US/LATAM)

Job summary

Lead technical delivery for complex AWS migration and modernization programs, from discovery and AWS Migration Acceleration Program assessments through migration and ongoing modernization. Design cloud-native architectures, guide distributed engineering teams across multiple engagements, review project scopes, resolve technical escalations, and contribute to pre-sales and reusable practice frameworks. The role spans AWS services including EC2, EKS, RDS, VPC, IAM, and AWS Application Migration Service.

Benefits

Qualifications

• At least 10 years of infrastructure or cloud engineering experience, including at least 5 years designing and delivering on AWS.
• At least 5 years of experience in an architect role.
• Track record leading at least two large-scale cloud migrations end to end.
• Hands-on database migration experience with MSSQL Server, Oracle, or PostgreSQL.
• Strong Infrastructure as Code skills; Terraform preferred, with CloudFormation, AWS CDK, or Ansible also relevant.
• Experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, GitLab, Bitbucket, or similar tools.
• Experience running containerized workloads with Docker and Kubernetes or EKS.
• Knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS, load balancers, firewalls, VPNs, and AWS networking services.
• Knowledge of IAM, least privilege, access control, endpoint security, and data encryption.
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills with executives and engineering teams.
• Comfort working in distributed teams with daily overlap with Central European Time.
• AWS Migration Acceleration Program experience, migrations from VMware or other cloud environments, or experience with AWS Transform are preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical delivery of complex migration and modernization engagements, including AWS Migration Acceleration Program assessments and mobilization.
• Lead technical discovery and design multi-service, cloud-native AWS architectures.
• Guide teams of 1–4 engineers and manage technical roadmaps for 2–3 concurrent engagements.
• Own technical design decisions and resolve technical disagreements and client scope discussions.
• Represent the delivery team in client, executive, and AWS stakeholder sessions.
• Support pre-sales through discovery, solution design, and co-selling with AWS account teams.
• Review technical content in statements of work and project contracts for deliverability.
• Resolve high-risk technical blockers, escalations, and critical production incidents.
• Build architectural guardrails, reusable frameworks, and components.
• Coach engineers and share knowledge through sessions, workshops, and whitepapers.
• Shape technical offerings and accelerators in response to market and AWS trends.
• Contribute to AWS Competency and partner programs.

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Travel

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