Cloud Migration Architect; AWS - Lansing, MI

Position: Cloud Migration Architect (AWS) - Lansing, MI
DTS is looking for Cloud Application Architect for our direct client Position in Lansing, MI. Top Skills & Years of

Experience:

5–6+ years hands-on experience building and operating production workloads on AWS, with deep knowledge of Elastic Beanstalk, EKS, EC2, RDS, VPC, IAM, S3, Cloud Watch, and Secrets Manager 3+ years hands-on with Kubernetes - production EKS preferred, including Helm, kubectl, ingress (ALB/NGINX), HPA, and troubleshooting pods/services/networking Solid Docker skills - multi-stage builds, image hardening, ECR Role description:

Position Overview We are seeking a Senior Cloud Migration Architect to embed with our development team and lead the AWS platform configuration and CI/CD automation for a large-scale enterprise cloud migration program. The program covers 30+ applications across migration approaches such as Elastic Beanstalk, Amazon EKS, EC2/Cloud VM - to be delivered across multiple sprints. The contractor will own the technical configuration of AWS services for each migration pattern, design and build Azure Dev Ops (ADO) pipelines that integrate with ArgoCD or Flux for Git Ops-driven deployments to EKS, and partner closely with application teams, the AWS Infrastructure Team, and the DBA team to deliver production-ready environments sprint by sprint.

This is a hands-on, deeply technical role for someone who can move fast, write production-grade IaC, debug across the stack, and mentor application developers and administrators on cloud-native patterns.

Key Responsibilities AWS Platform Configuration Configure and tune AWS Elastic Beanstalk environments for applications across Dev, Test, and Prod, including platform versions, scaling policies, environment variables, and rolling deployment configuration Stand up and operate Amazon EKS clusters across Dev/Test/Prod for containerized workloads, including node groups, cluster autoscaling, ingress controllers, and namespace strategy Provision and harden EC2/Cloud VM environments, including AMI selection, instance sizing, OS-level configuration, and patching strategy Partner with the DBA team on Amazon RDS setup for SQL Server and Postgre

SQL including parameter groups, subnet groups, backup policies, and Multi-AZ configuration Design VPC networking, security groups, IAM roles/policies, KMS keys, and Secrets Manager integration following least-privilege principles Build infrastructure-as-code (Terraform preferred; Cloud Formation acceptable) so every environment is reproducible and auditable CI/CD & Git Ops Design and build Azure Dev Ops build and release pipelines tailored to each migration pattern: EB pattern: source build → artifact → eb deploy to environment per stage EKS pattern:
Docker build → ECR push → manifest/Helm chart update → Git Ops sync via ArgoCD or Flux EC2 pattern: build → AMI bake or aws-deploy → blue/green or rolling release In-place upgrade pattern: validation, packaging, and controlled deployment to existing servers Implement Git Ops using ArgoCD or Flux for EKS workloads - pull-based deployments, automated drift detection, app-of-apps or kustomize/helm patterns, multi-cluster or multi-namespace promotion Establish promotion strategy across Dev to Test to Prod with appropriate gates, approvals, and rollback mechanisms Standardize pipeline templates (YAML) so application teams can self-onboard new services consistently Integrate static analysis, container scanning (Trivy/ECR scan), SAST/DAST hooks, and artifact provenance into the pipeline Observability & Reliability Configure Cloud Watch logs, metrics, alarms, and dashboards for each workload Define SLOs, alerting thresholds, and incident response runbooks for production cutover events Documentation & Hand-off Produce architecture decision records (ADRs), runbooks, and operational procedures so workloads can be supported by the long-term operations team Maintain a clean, versioned IaC repository as the source of truth for all environments Collaboration Work daily with application development teams, AWS Infrastructure Team, DBA Team, and Tech Leads Pair with developers to debug cloud-specific issues (cold starts, container OOMs, RDS connectivity, IAM…