AWS Cloud Infrastructure Architect

Overview

Full Time
Part Time
Accepts corp to corp applications
Contract - Independent
Contract - W2
Contract - term contract

Skills

VPC architectures
enterprise networking
and workload isolation strategies.
Cloud Infrastructure Architect AWS Migrations & Platform Modernization

Job Details

Hello Everyone,

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My name is Pavan and I work with SPAR Information System., I have a great opportunity for you, please find the job details below, if you are interested in applying please send me your updated resume and best time for you to discuss about this opportunity in details.

Job Title: Cloud Infrastructure Architect AWS Migrations & Platform Modernization

Location: Seattle/Bellevue, WA & Atlanta, GA, Frisco, TX

Duration: Long term contract

Position Overview

We are seeking a highly skilled Cloud Infrastructure Architect with deep expertise in designing, planning, and executing large-scale migrations to AWS. The ideal candidate has led complex On-Prem $B"*(J AWS migrations and intra-AWS migrations, including moving workloads from shared-tenant environments to AWS Dedicated Hosts.

This role requires strong architecture leadership, hands-on technical proficiency, and the ability to support large-scale Kubernetes platforms and enterprise AWS workloads while ensuring security, scalability, and operational excellence.

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Key Responsibilities

Cloud Architecture & Design

Architect end-to-end infrastructure solutions leveraging AWS Well-Architected Framework and enterprise design patterns.

Design scalable, secure multi-account landing zones, VPC architectures, enterprise networking, and workload isolation strategies.

Provide architecture leadership for containerized platforms, including Amazon EKS and large-scale self-managed Kubernetes clusters.

Migration Leadership

Lead complex On-Prem $B"*(J AWS and intra-AWS migrations involving VPC redesigns, account realignments, multi-region moves, and host architecture changes.

Drive migrations from shared-tenant EC2/EKS deployments to AWS Dedicated Hosts, ensuring compliance, performance, and workload isolation.

Conduct infrastructure assessments, migration strategies (rehost, replatform, refactor), and detailed cutover planning.

AWS Dedicated Host Expertise

Design and manage workloads running on AWS Dedicated Hosts, including host allocation, tenancy planning, compliance alignment, and lifecycle management.

Optimize compute planning, licensing models, capacity strategies, and high-availability architectures using Dedicated Hosts.

Ensure secure and compliant hosting for sensitive workloads requiring physical isolation and regulatory controls.

Kubernetes & Platform Engineering

Architect and manage large, multi-cluster Kubernetes environments with enterprise-grade reliability and security.

Define compute and scaling strategies using EC2, EKS, Bottlerocket, autoscaling groups, and Dedicated Hosts backed node groups.

Implement service mesh, workload identity, observability architectures, and cluster lifecycle automation.

Governance, Security & Compliance

Develop and enforce IAM architectures, guardrails, cloud governance, and security policies aligned with CIS, NIST, and organizational standards.

Partner with Security and Compliance teams to implement hardening, encryption, network segmentation, and threat detection.

Operational Excellence

Lead performance tuning, capacity planning, resiliency engineering, and availability design for large-scale AWS workloads.

Define operational playbooks for deployments, monitoring, backups, DR/HA, and workload lifecycle management.

Mentor engineering teams on AWS architecture patterns, DevOps practices, and migration execution.

Cross-Functional Leadership

Serve as a trusted advisor to engineering, SRE, product, and executive leadership.

Partner with AWS teams and vendors to drive best practices and architectural decisions.

Communicate complex solutions clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.

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Required Qualifications

8+ years of experience in Cloud Architecture, Infrastructure Engineering, or Platform Engineering.

5+ years of advanced AWS experience across EC2, VPC, IAM, EKS, RDS, Route53, S3, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Config, and related services.

Proven experience leading large-scale AWS migrations, including On-Prem $B"*(J AWS and shared-tenant $B"*(J Dedicated Host transitions.

Deep hands-on expertise with AWS Dedicated Hosts, tenancy management, licensing considerations, and infrastructure lifecycle planning.

Strong proficiency with Kubernetes, Terraform, cloud networking, and infrastructure automation.

Excellent understanding of multi-account governance, security controls, and workload isolation.

Strong communication and architectural leadership skills.

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Preferred Qualifications

AWS Solutions Architect Professional, DevOps Engineer Professional, or equivalent certifications.

Experience with large-scale Kubernetes operations, cluster bootstrap and upgrades, and production reliability.

Familiarity with service mesh (Istio, Linkerd, App Mesh), GitOps tools (ArgoCD, Flux), and cloud-native observability tools.

Experience designing resilient, cost-optimized, multi-region AWS architectures.

Thanks & Regards,

Pavan Raikhelkar

LEAD TALENT ACQUISITION SPECIALIST

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