Empower Professionals Inc - Talent & IT Services · 19 hours ago
Cloud Infrastructure Architect devops
Atlanta, GA
Contract
Hybrid
Senior Level
7+ years expEmpower Professionals Inc is a talent and IT services company seeking a highly skilled Cloud Infrastructure Architect with expertise in AWS migrations and platform modernization. The role involves designing and executing large-scale migrations to AWS, providing architecture leadership, and managing Kubernetes environments while ensuring security and operational excellence.
ComputerSoftware
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
Lead complex On-Prem → 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
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
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
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
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
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
Qualification
Required
7 Yrs of Exp – Cloud Infrastructure Architect
7 Yrs of Exp – AWS, Devops
5 Yrs of Exp in Telecom Domain
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 → AWS and shared-tenant → 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
Company
Empower Professionals Inc - Talent & IT Services
Managed Technology Services: We provide end-to-end managed IT services, including consulting, design, development, testing, and support.
201-500 employees
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