Senior Cloud Migration Architect (local to MI)

Position Overview

Client is seeking a Senior Cloud Migration Architect to embed with our development team and lead AWS platform configuration and CI/CD automation for a large-scale enterprise cloud migration program.

The program includes 30+ applications across migration approaches such as Elastic Beanstalk, Amazon EKS, and EC2/Cloud VM environments delivered over multiple sprints.

This is a hands-on technical role requiring strong expertise in AWS, Kubernetes, GitOps, Infrastructure-as-Code, and CI/CD automation.

Key Responsibilities

AWS Platform Configuration

• Configure and optimize AWS Elastic Beanstalk environments across Dev, Test, and Prod
• Build and manage Amazon EKS clusters including node groups, autoscaling, ingress controllers, and namespace strategies
• Provision and harden EC2/Cloud VM environments
• Collaborate with DBA teams on Amazon RDS setup for SQL Server and PostgreSQL
• Design secure VPC networking, IAM roles/policies, KMS keys, and Secrets Manager integrations
• Develop Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform (preferred) or CloudFormation

CI/CD & GitOps

• Design and implement Azure DevOps (ADO) build and release pipelines
• Build GitOps deployment workflows using ArgoCD or Flux
• Implement deployment strategies including:
  • Blue/Green deployments
  • Rolling deployments
  • Multi-stage promotion pipelines
• Standardize YAML pipeline templates for application onboarding
• Integrate security scanning, container scanning, and artifact validation into CI/CD pipelines

Observability & Reliability

• Configure CloudWatch logs, dashboards, alarms, and metrics
• Define SLOs, alerting mechanisms, and incident response procedures

Documentation & Collaboration

• Create architecture decision records (ADRs), operational runbooks, and deployment documentation
• Maintain version-controlled IaC repositories
• Work closely with developers, infrastructure teams, DBAs, and technical leads
• Troubleshoot cloud-native issues including IAM permissions, RDS connectivity, container failures, and networking issues

Required Qualifications

AWS & Cloud Experience

• 5–6+ years hands-on experience building and operating production workloads on AWS
• Strong expertise with:
  • Elastic Beanstalk
  • Amazon EKS
  • EC2
  • RDS
  • VPC
  • IAM
  • S3
  • CloudWatch
  • Secrets Manager

Kubernetes & Containerization

• 3+ years hands-on Kubernetes experience in production EKS environments
• Experience with:
  • Helm
  • kubectl
  • ALB/NGINX ingress
  • HPA
  • Pod/service/network troubleshooting
• Strong Docker experience:
  • Multi-stage builds
  • Image hardening
  • Amazon ECR

GitOps & CI/CD

• Strong production experience with ArgoCD or Flux (mandatory)
• Strong Azure DevOps Pipelines (YAML) experience
• Experience with:
  • Multi-stage pipelines
  • Variable groups
  • Service connections
  • Self-hosted/Microsoft-hosted agents
• Equivalent experience with GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or GitLab CI is acceptable

Infrastructure & Scripting

• Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform (preferred) or CloudFormation/CDK
• Linux administration experience (RHEL, Amazon Linux, Ubuntu)
• Bash/shell scripting expertise
• Git source control and branching strategies

Database & Communication

• Experience collaborating with DBA teams on RDS (SQL Server/PostgreSQL)
• Knowledge of connection strings, secrets rotation, and migration cutovers
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
• AWS DevOps Engineer – Professional
• CKA / CKAD Certifications
• Experience migrating .NET and Java applications to AWS
• Experience with service mesh technologies (Istio, App Mesh)
• Exposure to HashiCorp Vault and certificate management
• Familiarity with DataDog, Splunk, or New Relic
• Experience with canary and blue/green deployment strategies

Required Skills Summary

• AWS Infrastructure & Services
• Kubernetes / EKS
• Docker & ECR
• ArgoCD / Flux
• Azure DevOps Pipelines
• Terraform / CloudFormation
• Linux Administration
• Bash Scripting
• RDS / SQL Server / PostgreSQL
• Git & CI/CD Automation