Amazon Web Services (AWS), Automation, Cloud Computing, Computer Services, Cost Control, Data Recovery, DevOps, Disaster Recovery, High Availability, Information/Data Security (InfoSec), Migration Strategy, Refactoring, Risk, Risk Analysis, Strategic Planning, Technical Leadership
Job Title AWS Architect
Location - Charlotte, NC / Onsite
Job Type: Full Time/Direct Hire
Experience 10 plus years
Job Description
Must Have Technical/Functional Skills
Primary Skill: AWS Cloud Architect
Secondary: Axiom
Roles & Responsibilities
- Lead the assessment, planning, design, and execution of application and infrastructure migration from on-premises or existing environments to AWS.
- Define the overall AWS migration roadmap, including discovery, dependency mapping, migration strategy, wave planning, cutover approach, and rollback procedures.
- Recommend appropriate migration patterns such as rehost, replatform, refactor, retire, retain, or repurchase based on application criticality, business value, risk, and technical feasibility.
- Design secure, scalable, highly available, and cost-effective AWS landing zones and target-state architectures.
- Work closely with application, infrastructure, database, security, network, and business teams to align migration execution with business priorities.
- Provide hands-on guidance for AWS services including compute, storage, networking, identity, monitoring, backup, disaster recovery, and security.
- Support automation using Infrastructure as Code and DevOps practices to enable repeatable and controlled cloud deployments.
- Identify risks, dependencies, performance issues, security gaps, and cost optimization opportunities throughout the migration lifecycle.
- Provide technical leadership during migration execution, testing, cutover, post-migration validation, and hypercare support.
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