AWS Cloud Solutions Architect (107-10SARC-01)

Cloudary SAS; Acre; Remote; BRL 811,000 - 1,135,000; Full time

Job summary

Cloudary is seeking a Senior AWS Cloud Solutions Architect to lead complex migration and modernization engagements. You will guide technical delivery from assessment to mobilization, working with distributed teams and AWS stakeholders.

You will own design decisions, mentor engineers, and spend ~25% on pre-sales activities including discovery and solution design with North America teams. Remote-friendly contractor role.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in infrastructure or cloud engineering, including 5+ years designing and delivering on AWS.
• Proven track record of at least two large-scale cloud migrations end to end.
• Hands-on database migration experience with MSSQL Server, Oracle or PostgreSQL.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical delivery of complex, high-impact migration and modernization engagements.
• Lead technical discovery and design multi-service, cloud-native AWS architectures.
• Technically lead teams of 1–4 engineers and manage the technical roadmap.
• Own technical design decisions and resolve escalations with clients.
• Represent Client in customer sessions, including executive-level conversations.
• Spend around 25% of time on pre-sales: discovery, solution design and co-selling with AWS account teams.
• Build architectural guardrails and reusable frameworks; coach engineers.

Skills

AWS Architecture

Cloud Migration

Terraform

CI/CD

Docker Kubernetes

Security & IAM

Leadership

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT

Tools

Terraform

AWS CLI

CloudFormation

GitHub Actions

Job description

As a Senior AWS Cloud Solutions Architect, you will be the technical lead on our most complex engagements, from assessment and mobilization to large-scale migration and modernization. You will report to an Engineering Manager based in Europe and lead distributed teams of US- and Budapest-based engineers. You will also work closely with colleagues in our AI/ML and Application Development practices.

What you'll be doing:

• Lead the technical delivery of complex, high-impact migration and modernization engagements, including AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) assessments and mobilization.

• Lead technical discovery and design multi-service, cloud-native AWS architectures that turn business goals into scalable blueprints.

• Technically lead teams of 1–4 engineers, and manage the technical roadmap of 2–3 engagements in parallel.

• Own technical design decisions within project scope. Resolve technical disagreements and handle scope conversations with clients professionally.

• Represent Client in customers sessions, including executive-level conversations and joint sessions with AWS stakeholders.

• Spend around 25% of your time on pre-sales: discovery, solution design and co-selling with AWS account teams in North America.

• Resolve high-risk technical blockers and escalations, including critical production incidents.

• Adapt to changing delivery expectations and keep engagements on track under uncertainty.

• Build architectural guardrails, reusable frameworks and components that raise quality across the practice.

• Coach engineers and share knowledge through internal sessions, workshops, whitepapers and technical evangelism.

• Be the go-to expert in one or more domains, such as MSSQL Server, PostgreSQL, EKS, VMware, data, security or networking.

• Help shape our technical offerings and accelerators in line with market and AWS trends.

What you bring:

• 8+ years in infrastructure or cloud engineering, including 5+ years designing and delivering on AWS.

• A proven track record of leading at least two large-scale cloud migrations end to end.

• Hands-on database migration experience with MSSQL Server, Oracle or PostgreSQL.

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional.

• In-depth knowledge of core AWS services, including:

  • Compute and containers: EC2, Lambda, ECS, EKS

  • Storage and databases: S3, RDS, EFS, EBS

  • Networking and integration: VPC, API Gateway, CloudFront, SNS, SQS

  • Security: IAM, Security Hub, GuardDuty, KMS, AWS Private CA

  • Operations and migration: CloudWatch, AWS Application Migration Service

• Strong Infrastructure as Code skills. Terraform is preferred; CloudFormation, AWS CDK or Ansible are also welcome.

• Hands-on experience building and running CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, GitLab, Bitbucket or similar.

• Experience running containerized workloads with Docker and Kubernetes or EKS.

• Strong networking knowledge: TCP/IP, DNS, load balancers, firewalls and VPN, plus AWS networking services such as VPC, Route 53, ELB and CloudFront.

• Strong security knowledge: IAM, least privilege, access control, endpoint security and data encryption.

• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills. You are confident with executives and engineering teams alike.

• Comfort working in a distributed team, with a few hours of daily overlap with Central European Time.

• A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT or a related field, or equivalent experience.

Nice to have:

• Hands-on experience with AWS MAP phases: Assess, Mobilize, and Migrate & Modernize.

• Migrations from VMware, on-premises data centers, Azure or GCP.

• Experience with AI-assisted migration and modernization tooling, such as AWS Transform.

• AWS Specialty certifications, such as Security or Advanced Networking.

Final Details

Remote

Contractor USD Full Time ( US time zone with a few hours of overlap with CET )

Start date : ASAP