We are seeking an experienced AWS Cloud Migration Architect to lead the migration of approximately 100 enterprise applications from on-premises and/or other cloud platforms to AWS. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in AWS architecture, migration planning, application assessment, cloud adoption frameworks, landing zone implementation, security, networking, and large-scale migration execution.
The architect will work closely with application owners, infrastructure teams, security, networking, and business stakeholders to develop migration strategies, modernize workloads where appropriate, and ensure successful migration with minimal business disruption.
Key Responsibilities
Migration Strategy & Planning
Lead discovery and assessment of approximately 100 business applications.
Define migration approaches using the AWS 7Rs framework (Rehost, Replatform, Refactor, Repurchase, Relocate, Retire, Retain).
Develop migration waves, dependency mapping, and migration roadmaps.
Create application migration business cases and migration plans.
Identify technical risks and mitigation strategies.
AWS Architecture Design
Architect secure, scalable, and resilient AWS solutions.
Design AWS Landing Zones and multi-account strategies.
Define target-state architectures for applications and shared services.
Establish networking architecture including:
VPCs
Transit Gateway
Direct Connect
Route 53
Security Groups
Network segmentation
Cloud Migration Execution
Lead migration factories and migration wave planning.
Support workload migrations using:
AWS Application Migration Service (MGN)
AWS Migration Hub
AWS Database Migration Service (DMS)
AWS DataSync
AWS Transfer Family
Oversee migration testing and cutover activities.
Coordinate user acceptance testing and production deployments.
Security & Compliance
Implement AWS security best practices.
Design IAM strategy and role-based access controls.
Ensure compliance with organizational security policies.
Implement:
GuardDuty
Security Hub
AWS Config
CloudTrail
KMS
Automation & DevOps
Promote Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or CloudFormation).
Design CI/CD pipelines.
Automate deployment and operational processes.
Establish monitoring and logging frameworks.
Stakeholder Management
Engage executive leadership and application owners.
Provide migration status reporting and executive updates.
Facilitate architecture reviews and governance meetings.
Mentor engineering and operations teams.
Required Qualifications
Experience
IT infrastructure and cloud architecture experience.
AWS architecture experience.
Led migration of 100+ enterprise applications to AWS.
Experience managing large migration programs involving multiple stakeholders.
Strong experience with application dependency mapping and migration waves.
AWS Expertise
Strong hands-on experience with:
EC2
ECS/EKS
RDS
Aurora
S3
EFS
Lambda
API Gateway
Route 53
VPC
CloudWatch
IAM
AWS Organizations
Control Tower
Migration Tools
Experience with:
AWS MGN
AWS DMS
Migration Hub
CloudEndure
DataSync
Service Catalog
Infrastructure & OS
Experience with:
Windows Server
Linux
VMware
Hyper-V
SAN/NAS storage
Enterprise databases
Database Experience
SQL Server
Oracle
PostgreSQL
MySQL
Preferred Qualifications
Certifications
Required:
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional