Sr. Cloud Archtect

What are the top 3 skills required for this role?

AWS Discovery, Assessment, VMWare Migration, Landing Zone, Terraform, Matilda Discovery, Jenkins, AWS Bedrock, Claude LLM (Good To Have)

Role Summary

Lead the end-to-end migration of VMware-based datacenter workloads to AWS using Agentic AI-driven migration solutions. Define cloud architecture, migration strategy, governance standards, and technical execution while providing leadership to architects, engineers, and stakeholders throughout the transformation program.

Key Responsibilities

1. 1. Discovery & Assessment
   • Lead infrastructure and application discovery using tools such as Matilda, AWS Discovery, Device42, or similar platforms.
   • Assess servers, applications, databases, storage, and network dependencies for AWS migration readiness.
   • Analyze infrastructure inventory, utilization, business criticality, risks, and remediation requirements.
   • Perform migration strategy assessment using the AWS 6R framework (Rehost, Replatform, Refactor, Re-Architect, Retire, Retain).
2. 2. AWS Architecture & Migration Strategy
   • Define target AWS landing zone architecture aligned with enterprise security, networking, and governance standards.
   • Develop migration roadmaps, migration waves, sizing recommendations, and cost models.
   • Design AWS infrastructure solutions leveraging services such as EC2, ECS/EKS, FSx, EFS, Route 53, Transit Gateway, PrivateLink, API Gateway, and Lambda.
   • Ensure architecture decisions support scalability, resiliency, security, and operational excellence.
3. 3. Agentic AI-Driven Migration Enablement
   • Lead migration execution using Agentic AI platforms powered by Claude and AWS AI services.
   • Design and implement AI agents, skills, workflows, and automation tools to accelerate migration activities.
   • Utilize AI-driven dependency analysis and business prioritization to optimize migration wave planning.
   • Drive automated migration validation, testing, cutover, and post-migration verification activities.
4. 4. Migration Execution & Modernization
   • Provide technical leadership for VMware workload migration using AWS MGN and related migration services.
   • Lead modernization initiatives including containerization and migration to ECS or EKS where appropriate.
   • Oversee Windows and Linux upgrades, security hardening, patching, and compliance remediation for migrated workloads.
   • Resolve complex migration challenges and ensure successful workload transition to AWS.
5. 5. Cloud Engineering Standards
   • Define and enforce Infrastructure as Code (IaC) standards using Terraform.
   • Establish cloud architecture patterns, reusable modules, migration standards, and deployment best practices.
   • Integrate CI/CD, automation, and configuration management tools to support cloud operations.
6. 6. Governance & Leadership
   • Act as trusted advisor to client executives, technical leadership, and Architecture Review Boards.
   • Lead architecture governance, technical reviews, risk management, and migration decision-making.
   • Collaborate with application, infrastructure, network, security, and business stakeholders.
   • Mentor architects and engineering teams across cloud, network, security, and platform domains.