AWS Cloud Architect - Hybrid (Remote/On-site)

Norfolk Southern Corp.; Atlanta, Northern (GA, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Norfolk Southern is seeking an experienced Cloud Architect to lead the design and evolution of secure, scalable, and cost-optimized AWS cloud solutions. This role focuses on reference architectures, guardrails, multi-account landing zones, and CI/CD automation, while partnering across teams to modernize workloads and manage risk and compliance.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of cloud architecture experience, strong AWS expertise, and hands-on capabilities with Terraform, CloudFormation/CDK,

Qualifications

• 5+ years of cloud architecture or engineering experience.
• Experience defining AWS architecture principles, standards, guardrails, and automation patterns.
• Experience translating business priorities into scalable AWS architecture and roadmap decisions.

Responsibilities

• Design secure, scalable, resilient AWS architectures aligned with business strategy and AWS Well-Architected Framework.
• Define cloud governance, reference architectures, guardrails, standards, and reusable patterns for the AWS environment.
• Assess workloads for modernization, performance, resiliency, security, and cost optimization opportunities.
• Provide technical leadership for AWS landing zones, networking, identity, compute, storage, data, integration, containers, and serverless services.
• Partner with Cybersecurity to embed identity management, encryption, logging, monitoring, vulnerability management, and compliance controls by design.
• Guide application and platform teams on cloud-native design, migration patterns, and architecture decisions.
• Advance infrastructure as code, policy as code, CI/CD, observability, backup, and disaster recovery practices.

Skills

AWS architecture

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

Security & compliance

Leadership

Cloud Governance

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Terraform

ArgoCD

CloudFormation

Git

Job description

Norfolk Southern is seeking an experienced Cloud Architect to lead the design and evolution of secure, scalable, and cost-optimized AWS cloud solutions. This role focuses on reference architectures, guardrails, multi-account landing zones, and CI/CD automation, while partnering across teams to modernize workloads and manage risk and compliance.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of cloud architecture experience, strong AWS expertise, and hands-on capabilities with Terraform, CloudFormation/CDK,