Sr. Cloud Architect-W2-Remote

What are the top 3 skills required for this role?

AWS Discovery, Assessment, VMWare Migration, Landing Zone, Terraform, Matilda Discovery, Jenkins, AWS Bedrock, Claude LLM (Good To Have)

Role Summary

Lead the end-to-end migration of VMware-based datacenter workloads to AWS using Agentic AI-driven migration solutions.

Define cloud architecture, migration strategy, governance standards, and technical execution while providing leadership to architects, engineers, and stakeholders throughout the transformation program.

Key Responsibilities

• Discovery & Assessment
• • Lead infrastructure and application discovery using tools such as Matilda, AWS Discovery, Device42, or similar platforms.
• • Assess servers, applications, databases, storage, and network dependencies for AWS migration readiness.
• • Analyze infrastructure inventory, utilization, business criticality, risks, and remediation requirements.
• • Perform migration strategy assessment using the AWS 6R framework (Rehost, Replatform, Refactor, Re-Architect, Retire, Retain).
• AWS Architecture & Migration Strategy
• • Define target AWS landing zone architecture aligned with enterprise security, networking, and governance standards.
• • Develop migration roadmaps, migration waves, sizing recommendations, and cost models.
• • Design AWS infrastructure solutions leveraging services such as EC2, ECS/EKS, FSx, EFS, Route 53, Transit Gateway, PrivateLink, API Gateway, and Lambda.
• • Ensure architecture decisions support scalability, resiliency, security, and operational excellence.
• Agentic AI-Driven Migration Enablement
• • Lead migration execution using Agentic AI platforms powered by Claude and AWS AI services.
• • Design and implement AI agents, skills, workflows, and automation tools to accelerate migration activities.
• • Utilize AI-driven dependency analysis and business prioritization to optimize migration wave planning.
• • Drive automated migration validation, testing, cutover, and post-migration verification activities.
• Migration Execution & Modernization
• • Provide technical leadership for VMware workload migration using AWS MGN and related migration services.
• • Lead modernization initiatives including containerization and migration to ECS or EKS where appropriate.
• • Oversee Windows and Linux upgrades, security hardening, patching, and compliance remediation for migrated workloads.
• • Resolve complex migration challenges and ensure successful workload transition to AWS.
• Cloud Engineering Standards
• • Define and enforce Infrastructure as Code (IaC) standards using Terraform.
• • Establish cloud architecture patterns, reusable modules, migration standards, and deployment best practices.
• • Integrate CI/CD, automation, and configuration management tools to support cloud operations.
• Governance & Leadership
• • Act as trusted advisor to client executives, technical leadership, and Architecture Review Boards.
• • Lead architecture governance, technical reviews, risk management, and migration decision-making.
• • Collaborate with application, infrastructure, network, security, and business stakeholders.
• • Mentor architects and engineering teams across cloud, network, security, and platform domains.

Years of Experience: 19.00 Years of Experience