Sr. Cloud Architect AWS Migration

Location: Charlotte, NC Remote with occasional onsite requirement
Work Arrangement: Remote; must be willing to visit the Charlotte office 1 2 times per month
Experience: 19+ Years

Role Summary

We are seeking a Senior Cloud Architect to lead the end-to-end migration of VMware-based datacenter workloads to AWS using Agentic AI-driven migration solutions.

The ideal candidate will define cloud architecture, migration strategy, governance standards, and technical execution while providing technical leadership to architects, engineers, and business stakeholders throughout the transformation program.

Top Required Skills

• AWS Discovery & Assessment

• VMware-to-AWS Migration

• AWS Landing Zone & Terraform

Key Responsibilities

1. Discovery & Assessment

• Lead infrastructure and application discovery using tools such as AWS Discovery, Matilda, 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 assessments using the AWS 6R framework: Rehost, Replatform, Refactor, Re-Architect, Retire, and Retain.

2. 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

  • Lambda

• Ensure architecture decisions support scalability, resiliency, security, and operational excellence.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. Governance & Technical Leadership

• Act as a trusted advisor to 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.

Required Technical Skills

• Strong AWS cloud architecture and migration experience.

• Hands-on experience with VMware-to-AWS migrations.

• Experience with AWS Discovery and infrastructure assessment.

• Strong knowledge of AWS Landing Zone architecture.

• Strong Terraform / Infrastructure as Code experience.

• Experience with migration tools such as AWS MGN.

• Experience with Matilda Discovery, Device42, or similar discovery tools.

• Strong understanding of AWS networking, security, governance, and infrastructure services.

• Experience with CI/CD and Jenkins.

• Knowledge of Windows and Linux infrastructure.

• Experience with cloud modernization and containerization using ECS/EKS.

Preferred / Good-to-Have Skills

• Experience with AWS Bedrock.

• Experience with Claude LLM and Agentic AI solutions.

• Experience designing AI-driven migration automation.

• Strong understanding of AI-assisted infrastructure discovery and migration planning.

Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate is a senior-level cloud architect with extensive experience leading large-scale VMware-to-AWS transformation programs, strong AWS architecture expertise, and the ability to combine traditional cloud migration practices with Agentic AI-driven automation.