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Acumenz Consulting · 10 hours ago

AWS Cloud Solutions Architect

United States

Contract

Remote

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

12+ years exp

Acumenz Consulting is seeking an AWS Cloud Architect to lead the design, planning, and execution of the Data Center Exit program. This role focuses on migrating on-premises infrastructure, applications, and services to AWS Cloud while ensuring performance, scalability, cost efficiency, and compliance with enterprise standards.

ConsultingInformation TechnologyIT InfrastructureMobile Apps

Responsibilities

Conduct Migration Portfolio Assessment (MPA) and Migration Readiness Assessment (CAF) across business, governance, security, and operations

Define 7R application dispositions, build dependency maps, and create migration wave plans with TCO and risk analysis

Design scalable, secure, and resilient AWS cloud solutions to replace on-prem data center infrastructure

Develop target-state architecture, migration blueprints, and reference architectures aligned with AWS best practices and the AWS Well-Architected Framework

Select appropriate AWS services (e.g., EC2, ECS, EKS, RDS, S3, Lambda, CloudFront, CloudFormation, IAM) for various workloads

Lead migration assessments, application dependency mapping, and wave planning

Collaborate with migration teams to execute lift-and-shift, re-platforming, or re-architecting strategies

Oversee workload migration validation, performance tuning, and post-migration optimization

Implement cloud governance, compliance, and cost-management practices

Ensure security controls (IAM, KMS, VPC security, GuardDuty, etc.) meet enterprise and regulatory standards

Define tagging standards, automation templates, and operational guardrails

Qualification

AWS Cloud ArchitectureData Center MigrationVPC DesignIAMCloudFormationInfrastructure ArchitectureNetworkingSecurityAutomationCI/CDIaCHybrid Cloud Connectivity

Required

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)

12+ years of experience in infrastructure, cloud, or enterprise architecture

8+ years of hands-on AWS Cloud architecture experience, including VPC design, IAM, EC2, RDS, S3, CloudFormation/Terraform, and monitoring tools (CloudWatch, Config)

Proven experience leading large-scale data center migration or exit programs

Strong understanding of networking, security, automation (CI/CD, IaC), and hybrid cloud connectivity