AWS Cloud Migration Architect

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Position Overview

• We are seeking a Senior Cloud Migration Architect to embed with our development team and lead the AWS platform configuration and CI/CD automation for a large-scale enterprise cloud migration program. The program covers 30 applications across migration approaches such as Elastic Beanstalk Amazon EKS EC2/Cloud VM - to be delivered across multiple sprints.
• The contractor will own the technical configuration of AWS services for each migration pattern design and build Azure DevOps (ADO) pipelines that integrate with ArgoCD or Flux for GitOps-driven deployments to EKS and partner closely with application teams the AWS Infrastructure Team and the DBA team to deliver production-ready environments sprint by sprint.
• This is a hands-on deeply technical role for someone who can move fast write production-grade IaC debug across the stack and mentor application developers and administrators on cloud-native patterns.

Key Responsibilities

• AWS Platform Configuration
• Configure and tune AWS Elastic Beanstalk environments for applications across Dev Test and Prod including platform versions scaling policies environment variables and rolling deployment configuration
• Stand up and operate Amazon EKS clusters across Dev/Test/Prod for containerized workloads including node groups cluster autoscaling ingress controllers and namespace strategy
• Provision and harden EC2/Cloud VM environments including AMI selection instance sizing OS-level configuration and patching strategy
• Partner with the DBA team on Amazon RDS setup for SQL Server and PostgreSQL including parameter groups subnet groups backup policies and Multi-AZ configuration
• Design VPC networking security groups IAM roles/policies KMS keys and Secrets Manager integration following least-privilege principles
• Build infrastructure-as-code (Terraform preferred; CloudFormation acceptable) so every environment is reproducible and auditable
• CI/CD & GitOps
• Design and build Azure DevOps build and release pipelines tailored to each migration pattern:
• EB pattern: source build artifact eb deploy to environment per stage
• EKS pattern: Docker build ECR push manifest/Helm chart update GitOps sync via ArgoCD or Flux
• EC2 pattern: build AMI bake or aws-deploy blue/green or rolling release
• In-place upgrade pattern: validation packaging and controlled deployment to existing servers
• Implement GitOps using ArgoCD or Flux for EKS workloads - pull-based deployments automated drift detection app-of-apps or kustomize/helm patterns multi-cluster or multi-namespace promotion
• Establish promotion strategy across Dev to Test to Prod with appropriate gates approvals and rollback mechanisms
• Standardize pipeline templates (YAML) so application teams can self-onboard new services consistently
• Integrate static analysis container scanning (Trivy/ECR scan) SAST/DAST hooks and artifact provenance into the pipeline
• Observability & Reliability
• Configure CloudWatch logs metrics alarms and dashboards for each workload
• Define SLOs alerting thresholds and incident response runbooks for production cutover events
• Documentation & Hand-off
• Produce architecture decision records (ADRs) runbooks and operational procedures so workloads can be supported by the long-term operations team
• Maintain a clean versioned IaC repository as the source of truth for all environments
• Collaboration
• Work daily with application development teams AWS Infrastructure Team DBA Team and Tech Leads
• Pair with developers to debug cloud-specific issues (cold starts container OOMs RDS connectivity IAM denials)

Required Qualifications

• 5 6 years hands-on experience building and operating production workloads on AWS with deep knowledge of Elastic Beanstalk EKS EC2 RDS VPC IAM S3 CloudWatch and Secrets Manager
• 3 years hands-on with Kubernetes - production EKS preferred including Helm kubectl ingress (ALB/NGINX) HPA and troubleshooting pods/services/networking
• Production experience with ArgoCD or Flux - designed app-of-apps structure managed multi-environment promotion and resolved GitOps drift in real workloads. This is non-negotiable.
• Strong Azure DevOps Pipelines (YAML) experience - build pipelines multi-stage release pipelines variable groups service connections and self-hosted/Microsoft-hosted agents. Equivalent strong experience in another major CI/CD tool (GitHub Actions GitLab CI Jenkins) is acceptable if Azure DevOps can be picked up quickly
• Solid Docker skills - multi-stage builds image hardening ECR
• Infrastructure-as-Code in production: Terraform (preferred) or CloudFormation/CDK
• Database familiarity - comfortable working with DBA teams on RDS (SQL Server and PostgreSQL) connection strings secrets rotation and migration cutover
• Linux administration (RHEL/Amazon Linux/Ubuntu) and shell scripting (bash)
• Source control with Git - branching strategies pull requests code review discipline
• Strong written communication - must produce clear runbooks architecture diagrams and PR descriptions

Preferred Qualifications

• AWS certifications: AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional or DevOps Engineer - Professional
• CKA / CKAD (Certified Kubernetes Administrator/Developer)
• Experience and Java applications from on-premises to AWS
• Experience operating COTS products in containerized or cloud environments
• Experience with service mesh (Istio App Mesh) or API gateways
• Exposure to HashiCorp Vault secrets rotation and certificate management
• Familiarity with DataDog New Relic or Splunk in addition to native AWS observability
• Experience with blue/green and canary deployment patterns