Sr. Cloud Archtect
Job in
Deerfield, Lake County, Illinois, 60063, USA
Listed on 2026-10-09
Listing for:
TechDigital Group
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-10-09
Job specializations:
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IT/Tech
AWS, Cloud Computing: Infrastructure & Operations, Systems Engineer
Job Description & How to Apply Below
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 SummaryLead 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- 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).
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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