Cloud Architect IV – AWS Migration & Modernization

• Job Category 2F
• Employee Type Exempt FT

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About the Opportunity

The Cloud Architect IV- AWS Migration Specialist will assist in designing, implementing, and managing cloud infrastructure to support business objectives in an on-site and remote work environment . You will be responsible for ensuring the scalability, reliability, and security of cloud solutions while supporting the development of innovative architectures that maximize the performance of cloud environments. This role requires expertise in cloud technologies, strong leadership skills, and a deep understanding of both the technical and business aspects of cloud computing.

The Cloud Architect IV- AWS Migration Specialist can be expected to coordinate cloud architecture across diverse areas including application development, identity and access management, and network and data management.

Requirements

Supervisory responsibilities

None

Essential functions

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions

• Ensure security and compliance standards are maintained throughout the migration lifecycle and in the target AWS environment.
• Serve as the technical authority on AWS best practices for cloud migration, optimization, and modernization.
• Apply technical knowledge and customer insights to create a modernization roadmap and architect solutions to meet business and IT needs, ensuring technical viability of new projects and successful deployments, orchestrating key resources and infusing key infrastructure technologies.
• Develop and implement automation scripts and tools to streamline the migration process.
• Drive cost optimization by recommending rightsizing of resources and leveraging Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, and other AWS cost management features.
• Develops architecture solutions and evaluates alternatives for private, public and hybrid cloud models, including IaaS, PaaS, and other cloud services.
• Use architectural design principles to develop robust, efficient, and secure cloud solutions based on customer requirements.
• Architect, engineer, and deploy/provision secure and robust cloud services that include IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS and support service quality, outage management, subscription management, correlation of usage, and charges, and cost-efficient solution architecture.
• Develops architectural strategies/solutions to ensure application high availability in both hybrid (on-premise / cloud) and fully cloud hosted applications to provide an ‘always on’ experience.
• Acts as a subject matter expert for cloud end-to-end architecture, including current and future providers, networking, provisioning, and management.
• Document technical designs, migration runbooks, and operational procedures.
• Collaborate with development and operations teams to refactor and modernize applications to take full advantage of cloud-native services (e.g., containers, serverless).
• Provides technical expertise in the diagnosis and resolution of an issue, including the determination and provision of workaround solution or escalation to owners.
• Ensures delivered solutions meets technical and functional/non-functional performance requirements within.
• Evaluate, design, and implement solutions for migrating on-premise applications to cloud hosting solutions.
• Use standardized process for mapping business needs to available cloud technology options, including assessment of risks and possible mitigations.
• Mentor junior team members and provide technical guidance throughout the project lifecycle.
• Develop tools and documentation to enable the support organizations to resolve customer issues, including complex technical scenarios dealing with the cloud architecture.
• Perform other duties and…