About the company
This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior AWS Cloud Architect – VMware Migration & AI Automation based in United States.
Responsibilities
- Lead the end-to-end migration of VMware-based datacenter workloads to AWS, using Agentic AI-driven migration solutions and providing technical direction throughout the transformation.
- Lead infrastructure and application discovery using tools such as Matilda, AWS Discovery, Device42, or similar platforms, assessing servers, applications, databases, storage, and network dependencies for AWS readiness.
- Analyze infrastructure inventory, utilization, business criticality, risks, and remediation requirements, and apply the AWS 6R framework—Rehost, Replatform, Refactor, Re-Architect, Retire, and Retain—to determine appropriate migration approaches.
- Define target AWS landing zone architecture aligned with enterprise security, networking, and governance standards, while developing migration roadmaps, migration waves, sizing recommendations, and cost models.
- Design AWS infrastructure solutions using services such as EC2, ECS/EKS, FSx, EFS, Route 53, Transit Gateway, PrivateLink, API Gateway, and Lambda, ensuring scalability, resiliency, security, and operational excellence.
- Lead migration execution using Agentic AI platforms, Claude, and AWS AI services, including the design of AI agents, skills, workflows, and automation tools that accelerate migration activities.
- Apply AI-driven dependency analysis and business prioritization to optimize migration waves, while driving automated validation, testing, cutover, and post-migration verification.
- Provide technical leadership for VMware workload migrations using AWS MGN and related migration services, including modernization and containerization initiatives involving ECS or EKS where appropriate.
- Oversee Windows and Linux upgrades, security hardening, patching, and compliance remediation for migrated workloads, resolving complex technical challenges to ensure successful transitions.
- Define and enforce Infrastructure as Code standards using Terraform, establish reusable architecture patterns and modules, and integrate CI/CD, automation, and configuration management practices.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to executives, technical leaders, and Architecture Review Boards by leading architecture governance, technical reviews, risk management, and migration decision-making.
- Collaborate across application, infrastructure, network, security, and business teams while mentoring architects and engineers across cloud, network, security, and platform disciplines.
Requirements
- Approximately 19 years of professional experience, with extensive experience in cloud architecture, infrastructure transformation, and technical delivery.
- Strong hands-on expertise in AWS discovery and assessment, VMware migration, AWS landing zones, and Terraform-based Infrastructure as Code.
- Experience with migration and discovery technologies such as Matilda Discovery, AWS Discovery, or comparable infrastructure assessment platforms.
- Strong understanding of AWS architecture and migration services, including experience with services such as EC2, ECS/EKS, FSx, EFS, Route 53, Transit Gateway, PrivateLink, API Gateway, Lambda, and AWS MGN.
- Experience establishing cloud architecture standards, governance models, reusable infrastructure patterns, CI/CD practices, and automation frameworks.
- Experience with Jenkins and familiarity with AI-enabled cloud migration approaches, including AWS Bedrock and Claude LLM, which are considered good-to-have skills.
- Strong understanding of VMware environments, workload dependencies, migration readiness assessment, modernization, security remediation, and migration planning.
- Ability to communicate effectively with executives, architects, engineers, business stakeholders, and Architecture Review Boards, while providing technical leadership and mentoring across multidisciplinary teams.
Conditions
- Compensation of up to $75 per hour.
- Remote position available across the United States.
- Health benefits.
- Referral program.
- Strong opportunities for professional growth and career advancement.
- Opportunity to lead large-scale AWS cloud transformation and VMware migration initiatives.
- Exposure to Agentic AI, AWS AI services, Claude, and AI-driven automation in enterprise migration environments.
- High-impact technical leadership across cloud architecture, modernization, Infrastructure as Code, governance, and migration strategy.