Sr. Cloud Archtect

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 data center 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
1. Discovery & Assessment

• Lead infrastructure and application discovery using tools such as Matilda, AWS Discovery, Device
42, 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).
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, Private Link, API Gateway, and 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 & 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.