Position: AWS Cloud Architect Fulltime only Location: Charlotte, NC (Onsite) Relocation is fine
Job Description: Role Overview As an AWS Cloud Architect, you will serve as the strategic visionary and technical leader responsible for designing, developing, and overseeing the organization's entire cloud computing ecosystem. This role blends advanced technical mastery of Amazon Web Services (AWS) with strategic business acumen to transform legacy workloads into scalable, resilient, highly secure, and cost-optimized cloud-native environments. You will lead cloud migration strategies, establish governance frameworks, and collaborate with key stakeholders to align our cloud roadmap with overall business objectives.
Blueprint Creation: Design end-to-end cloud architectures that prioritize high availability, fault tolerance, and seamless disaster recovery (DR) capabilities.
Migration Strategy: Lead complex cloud migration efforts, formulating robust strategies (e.g., re-platforming, re-architecting) to securely transition legacy on-premises applications and big data systems to AWS.
Strategic Roadmap: Create and govern cloud adoption roadmaps, establishing standards for containerization, serverless architectures, and API management across the enterprise.
2. Security, Compliance & Governance
Secure by Design: Establish secure cloud landing zones using AWS Control Tower, Organizations, and IAM Identity Center, enforcing strict, least-privilege security boundaries.
Compliance Standards: Design network security frameworks (VPCs, firewalls, transit gateways) and encryption standards (KMS, CloudHSM) that comply with global regulatory standards (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA, SOC 2, NIST).
3. FinOps & Platform Optimization
Cost Optimization: Conduct architectural reviews (using the AWS Well-Architected Framework) to optimize cloud resources, reduce operational spend, and model cloud budgets.
Performance Engineering: Establish baseline metrics for monitoring and telemetry, designing auto-scaling policies and optimizing global content delivery (CloudFront, Global Accelerator).
4. Technical Leadership & Collaboration
Technical Mentorship: Act as the primary technical advisor to engineering, DevOps, and database teams, helping translate architectural blueprints into functional code.
Stakeholder Alignment: Confidently present cloud strategies, cost projections, and technical roadmaps to C-level executives and non-technical stakeholders.
AWS Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, Api Gateway, EventBridge, SQS
Security & Governance
IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager, CloudTrail, AWS Config, Control Tower, GuardDuty
Automation & IaC
Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Ansible
Monitoring & Telemetry
AWS CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana
Qualifications & Experience
Professional Experience: 12+ years in IT/Software Engineering, with at least 5+ years of dedicated experience architecting large-scale enterprise AWS systems.
Cloud Migration Expertise: Proven track record of successfully migrating large databases and monolithic systems into microservice/containerized AWS environments.
Deep IaC Mastery: Extensive experience defining multi-account environments using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or CloudFormation).
Communication & Soft Skills: Outstanding written and verbal communication skills; proven ability to facilitate workshops, resolve architectural debates, and mentor senior engineering staff.
Numbers & Facts
Location
Charlotte, NC
Skills
Amazon CloudFrontunmatched
Amazon Web Services (AWS)unmatched
Architectural Designunmatched
Architectural Servicesunmatched
Autoscalingunmatched
Big Dataunmatched
Blueprintsunmatched
Budgetingunmatched
Business Skillsunmatched
C-Level Managementunmatched
Change Controlunmatched
Cloud Architectureunmatched
Cloud Computingunmatched
Communication Skillsunmatched
Content Delivery/Distributionunmatched
Cost Controlunmatched
Cost Estimatesunmatched
Cryptographyunmatched
DevOpsunmatched
Disaster Recoveryunmatched
Ecosystemsunmatched
Establish Prioritiesunmatched
Firewallsunmatched
HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act)unmatched
High Availabilityunmatched
Information Technology Softwareunmatched
Large-Scale Systemsunmatched
Mentoringunmatched
Metricsunmatched
Microservicesunmatched
Migration Strategyunmatched
Network Security Designunmatched
Performance Engineeringunmatched
Presentation/Verbal Skillsunmatched
Regulationsunmatched
Regulatory Complianceunmatched
Simple Queue Service (SQS)unmatched
Software Engineeringunmatched
Technical Leadershipunmatched
Technical Strategyunmatched
Telemetryunmatched
U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)unmatched
Writing Skillsunmatched
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