EdHike · 21 hours ago
Senior AWS Architect
Dallas, TX
Contract
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
15+ years expEdHike is seeking an elite AWS Architect to lead a team in minimizing datacenters by 2030. The role involves hands-on leadership in delivering migration patterns and secure landing zones while ensuring compliance and security in regulated environments.
Information Technology & Services
Hiring Manager
Vaishali Dhawan
Responsibilities
Technical lead for the 4‑person pod; mentor, review, unblock; drive delivery cadence
Convert business/regulatory constraints into platform designs and migration plans
Author AWS CDK constructs (TypeScript/Python) for network, identity, logging, encryption, data foundations; manage CDK Pipelines across accounts/environments
Define versioning/deprecation strategy for constructs; ensure frictionless consumption by 10–20+ teams
Enforce least‑privilege IAM, permission boundaries, SCPs, key policies (KMS), private endpoints, guardrails
Centralize CloudTrail/GuardDuty/Security Hub; codify controls as policy‑as‑code; maintain evidence
Drive discovery, wave planning, and execution using AWS migration tooling:
Workloads/servers: AWS MGN (CloudEndure), Migration Hub, ADS
Databases/data: DMS, SCT, DataSync, Snowball Edge/Snow Family, S3 Transfer Acceleration, Glue ETL
Stateful cutovers: blue/green, canary, DNS strategies; performance baselines and smoke tests
Design Direct Connect/VPN, routing, VPC topologies, endpoint policies, NACL/SG strategy; multi‑region HA/DR
Implement CloudWatch/OTel, metric/trace/log standards; error budgets, runbooks; define SLO/SLIs for shared services
Establish tagging standards, cost allocation, rightsizing; RI/SP strategy; dashboards and alerts
Publish reference architectures, docs/playbooks, sample repos, workshops/office hours; track adoption KPIs
Qualification
Required
15+ years overall; 10+ years deep AWS architecture in regulated (bank/DoD/health) environments
Led ≥3 large enterprise migrations (100s of servers and multi‑TB data) including plan → migrate → cutover → hypercare
Built multi‑account platforms with Control Tower/Organizations, SCPs, IAM SSO, and centralized logging & security
Hands‑on CDK (not just Terraform): authored reusable constructs adopted by multiple teams, with CDK Pipelines
Demonstrated audit readiness: control mapping, Config rules, exceptions workflow, evidence packs
Company
EdHike
Welcome to EdHike — Where Innovation Drives Impact! At EdHike, we empower businesses and individuals with future-ready solutions across IT Services, Professional Training, and Staffing Excellence—anchored in deep expertise in ERP, AI, ML, and Cybersecurity.
11-50 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageCompany data provided by crunchbase