About the role
As a Senior AWS Cloud Solutions Architect, you will be the technical lead on our most complex engagements, from assessment and mobilization to large-scale migration and modernization. You will report to an Engineering Manager based in Europe and lead distributed teams of US- and Budapest-based engineers. You will also work closely with colleagues in our AI/ML and Application Development practices.
What you'll be doing:
* Lead the technical delivery of complex, high-impact migration and modernization engagements, including AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) assessments and mobilization.
* Lead technical discovery and design multi-service, cloud-native AWS architectures that turn business goals into scalable blueprints.
* Technically lead teams of 1–4 engineers, and manage the technical roadmap of 2–3 engagements in parallel.
* Own technical design decisions within project scope. Resolve technical disagreements and handle scope conversations with clients professionally.
* Represent Client in customers sessions, including executive-level conversations and joint sessions with AWS stakeholders.
* Spend around 25% of your time on pre-sales: discovery, solution design and co-selling with AWS account teams in North America.
* Resolve high-risk technical blockers and escalations, including critical production incidents.
* Adapt to changing delivery expectations and keep engagements on track under uncertainty.
* Build architectural guardrails, reusable frameworks and components that raise quality across the practice.
* Coach engineers and share knowledge through internal sessions, workshops, whitepapers and technical evangelism.
* Be the go-to expert in one or more domains, such as MSSQL Server, PostgreSQL, EKS, VMware, data, security or networking.
* Help shape our technical offerings and accelerators in line with market and AWS trends.
What you bring:
* 8+ years in infrastructure or cloud engineering, including 5+ years designing and delivering on AWS.
* A proven track record of leading at least two large-scale cloud migrations end to end.
* Hands-on database migration experience with MSSQL Server, Oracle or PostgreSQL.
* AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional.
* In-depth knowledge of core AWS services, including: * Compute and containers: EC2, Lambda, ECS, EKS * Storage and databases: S3, RDS, EFS, EBS * Networking and integration: VPC, API Gateway, CloudFront, SNS, SQS * Security: IAM, Security Hub, GuardDuty, KMS, AWS Private CA * Operations and migration: CloudWatch, AWS Application Migration Service
* Strong Infrastructure as Code skills. Terraform is preferred; CloudFormation, AWS CDK or Ansible are also welcome.
* Hands-on experience building and running CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, GitLab, Bitbucket or similar.
* Experience running containerized workloads with Docker and Kubernetes or EKS.
* Strong networking knowledge: TCP/IP, DNS, load balancers, firewalls and VPN, plus AWS networking services such as VPC, Route 53, ELB and CloudFront.
* Strong security knowledge: IAM, least privilege, access control, endpoint security and data encryption.
* Excellent problem-solving and communication skills. You are confident with executives and engineering teams alike.
* Comfort working in a distributed team, with a few hours of daily overlap with Central European Time.
* A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT or a related field, or equivalent experience.
Nice to have:
* Hands-on experience with AWS MAP phases: Assess, Mobilize, and Migrate & Modernize.
* Migrations from VMware, on-premises data centers, Azure or GCP.
* Experience with AI-assisted migration and modernization tooling, such as AWS Transform.
* AWS Specialty certifications, such as Security or Advanced Networking.
Final Details
Remote
Contractor USD Full Time ( US time zone with a few hours of overlap with CET )
Start date : ASAP
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