Job Description

As a Cloud Architect specializing in AWS migration, you will help multiple teams modernize their infrastructure by transitioning from traditional virtual machine environments to scalable, secure cloud architectures. You’ll play a pivotal role in shaping the organization’s cloud strategy, designing and evaluating implementation options that balance performance, cost, complexity, and compliance. This role involves close collaboration with development teams, DevOps engineers, and customer stakeholders to ensure that cloud solutions are both technically sound and mission-aligned. You will bring deep technical expertise and a pragmatic approach to solving complex migration challenges. Acting as a trusted advisor, you’ll foster confidence, build alignment, and raise overall cloud fluency across the enterprise.

Responsibilities:

• Design and evaluate multiple AWS migration strategies for legacy and VM-based workloads.
• Develop architecture diagrams, migration plans, and reference implementations to support adoption.
• Assess tradeoffs between complexity, cost, scalability, and compliance to recommend optimal approaches.
• Collaborate with development and DevOps teams to integrate AWS solutions with existing CI/CD and deployment pipelines.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to teams implementing AWS infrastructure.
• Engage directly with customers and leadership to validate designs, communicate risks, and maintain trust.
• Document and share best practices to strengthen cloud adoption across the organization.

Skills Requirements:

• Experience with AWS architecture, services, and security/compliance frameworks, particularly within C2S/C2E or HCI/WandS.
• Knowledge of networking, identity management, and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.).
• Experience migrating workloads from on-premises or VM environments to AWS.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, ECS, and containerized workload orchestration.
• Experience with DevOps pipelines, CI/CD tools, and monitoring stacks (Grafana, Prometheus, CloudWatch, etc.).
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with a track record of building trust as an external expert.

Nice to Haves:

• Experience designing and implementing Azure cloud architectures (or other commercial clouds).
• Experience with multi-cloud strategy, hybrid cloud environments, or cross-cloud cost modeling.
• Prior experience working in CNO.

YOE Requirement: 12 yrs, B.S. or 4 additional yrs in place of B.S.

This position is 100% on-site. Applicants for positions requiring security clearance will be automatically rejected for candidates not meeting the Security Clearance requirement.