Cloud Architect

Job Title: Senior Cloud Migration Architect - Hybrid

Duration (Contract): 6 Months

Client Location: Lansing MI 48933

Location Preference: Hybrid

Job Description:
As a Senior Cloud Migration Architect you will lead the design configuration and delivery of AWS-based solutions for a large-scale enterprise cloud migration program. You will work hands-on with development and infrastructure teams to build scalable production-ready environments implement CI/CD pipelines and drive cloud-native adoption using modern DevOps and GitOps practices across multiple applications and migration patterns.

Key Responsibilities:

• Configure and manage AWS services across environments including Elastic Beanstalk EKS EC2 and RDS.
• Design and implement Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or similar tools for reproducibility.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps with integration to GitOps tools.
• Implement GitOps practices using ArgoCD or Flux for automated deployments and environment promotion.
• Define deployment strategies including blue/green rolling and canary releases.
• Configure networking security IAM policies and secrets management following best practices.
• Develop monitoring and observability solutions using logging metrics and alerting tools.
• Collaborate with development infrastructure and database teams to ensure smooth migration execution.
• Produce technical documentation including runbooks architecture designs and operational procedures.

Required Skills Experiences Education and Competencies:

• 5 6 years of hands-on AWS experience supporting production workloads.
• Strong experience with Kubernetes particularly Amazon EKS environments.
• Proven experience implementing GitOps solutions using ArgoCD or Flux.
• Hands-on experience building CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps or equivalent tools.
• Strong experience with Docker and containerized application deployment.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Working knowledge of databases including RDS for SQL Server or PostgreSQL.
• Strong Linux administration and shell scripting skills.
• Experience working with Git for version control and collaborative development workflows.
• Strong technical documentation and communication skills.

Preferred Skills:

• AWS or Kubernetes certifications.
• Experience migrating applications from on premises environments to AWS.
• Familiarity with cloud observability tools beyond native AWS services.
• Experience with service mesh API gateways or advanced deployment strategies.

The hourly range for roles of this nature are $60.00 to $85.00/hr. Rates are heavily dependent on skills experience location and industry.

cyberThink is an Equal Opportunity Employer.