AWS Cloud Architect — Hybrid & Transformation Lead

Devopsroles; Atlanta (GA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Norfolk Southern is seeking an experienced Enterprise Cloud Architect to lead the design and evolution of secure, scalable AWS solutions, aligning with the AWS Well-Architected Framework and cost optimization. This role will drive modernization and liaise with security, data, and business teams to advance cloud transformations.

The position offers a hybrid on-site and remote work arrangement, emphasizing technical leadership, governance, and hands-on implementation across multi-account landing

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, and cost-optimized AWS architectures aligned with business strategy and the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
• Define cloud governance, reference architectures, guardrails, standards, and reusable patterns for the AWS environment.
• Assess workloads and AWS services 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.
• Evaluate emerging AWS capabilities and recommend practical adoption approaches, including generative AI where appropriate.
• 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.
• Maintain clear architecture documentation, decision records, standards, and shared knowledge repositories.
• Drive adoption through stakeholder engagement, technical mentoring, and effective change management.

Skills

AWS Architecture

Cloud Security

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

Technical Leadership

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT or related field

Tools

Terraform

AWS CloudFormation

Git

ArgoCD

Job description

Norfolk Southern is seeking an experienced Enterprise Cloud Architect to lead the design and evolution of secure, scalable AWS solutions, aligning with the AWS Well-Architected Framework and cost optimization. This role will drive modernization and liaise with security, data, and business teams to advance cloud transformations.

The position offers a hybrid on-site and remote work arrangement, emphasizing technical leadership, governance, and hands-on implementation across multi-account landing