AWS Cloud Infrastructure Architect

Cloud Analytics Technologies, LLC; Frisco (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology solutions company based in Frisco, Texas is seeking an experienced AWS Cloud Infrastructure Architect. The role involves architecting end-to-end AWS infrastructure, leading complex migrations, and ensuring compliance with security and governance standards. Candidates should have 8+ years of experience, strong AWS expertise, and the ability to communicate complex solutions to diverse stakeholders. This position offers competitive compensation within an inclusive work environment.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in Cloud Architecture, Infrastructure Engineering, or Platform Engineering.
• 5+ years of advanced AWS experience across major services.
• Proven experience in large-scale AWS migrations.

Responsibilities

• Architect end-to-end infrastructure solutions using AWS.
• Design and manage workloads on AWS Dedicated Hosts.
• Lead performance tuning and capacity planning for large-scale AWS workloads.

Skills

AWS expertise

Kubernetes proficiency

Infrastructure automation

Cloud networking

Communication skills

Tools

Terraform

EC2

S3

CloudWatch

Job description

Overview

Job Title: AWS Cloud Infrastructure Architect

Key Responsibilities

• Architect end-to-end infrastructure solutions leveraging AWS Well-Architected Framework and enterprise design patterns.
• Design scalable, secure multi-account landing zones, VPC architectures, enterprise networking, and workload isolation strategies.
• Provide architecture leadership for containerized platforms, including Amazon EKS and large-scale self-managed Kubernetes clusters.
• Lead complex On-Prem AWS and intra-AWS migrations involving VPC redesigns, account realignments, multi-region moves, and host architecture changes.
• Drive migrations from shared-tenant EC2/EKS deployments to AWS Dedicated Hosts, ensuring compliance, performance, and workload isolation.
• Conduct infrastructure assessments, migration strategies (rehost, replatform, refactor), and detailed cutover planning.

AWS Dedicated Host Expertise

• Design and manage workloads running on AWS Dedicated Hosts, including host allocation, tenancy planning, compliance alignment, and lifecycle management.
• Optimize compute planning, licensing models, capacity strategies, and high-availability architectures using Dedicated Hosts.
• Ensure secure and compliant hosting for sensitive workloads requiring physical isolation and regulatory controls.
• Architect and manage large, multi-cluster Kubernetes environments with enterprise-grade reliability and security.
• Define compute and scaling strategies using EC2, EKS, Bottlerocket, autoscaling groups, and Dedicated Hosts backed node groups.
• Implement service mesh, workload identity, observability architectures, and cluster lifecycle automation.

Governance, Security & Compliance

• Develop and enforce IAM architectures, guardrails, cloud governance, and security policies aligned with CIS, NIST, and organizational standards.
• Partner with Security and Compliance teams to implement hardening, encryption, network segmentation, and threat detection.

Operational Excellence

• Lead performance tuning, capacity planning, resiliency engineering, and availability design for large-scale AWS workloads.
• Define operational playbooks for deployments, monitoring, backups, DR/HA, and workload lifecycle management.
• Mentor engineering teams on AWS architecture patterns, DevOps practices, and migration execution.

Cross-Functional Leadership

• Serve as a trusted advisor to engineering, SRE, product, and executive leadership.
• Partner with AWS teams and vendors to drive best practices and architectural decisions.
• Communicate complex solutions clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in Cloud Architecture, Infrastructure Engineering, or Platform Engineering.
• 5+ years of advanced AWS experience across EC2, VPC, IAM, EKS, RDS, Route53, S3, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Config, and related services.
• Proven experience leading large-scale AWS migrations, including On-Prem AWS and shared-tenant Dedicated Host transitions.
• Deep hands-on expertise with AWS Dedicated Hosts, tenancy management, licensing considerations, and infrastructure lifecycle planning.
• Strong proficiency with Kubernetes, Terraform, cloud networking, and infrastructure automation.
• Excellent understanding of multi-account governance, security controls, and workload isolation.
• Strong communication and architectural leadership skills.

Equal Opportunity Employer

CLOUD ANALYTICS TECHNOLOGIES LLC is an equal opportunity employer inclusive of female, minority, disability and veterans, (M/F/D/V). Hiring, promotion, transfer, compensation, benefits, discipline, termination and all other employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, national origin, citizenship/immigration status, veteran status or any other protected status. CLOUD ANALYTICS TECHNOLOGIES LLC will not make any posting or employment decision that does not comply with applicable laws relating to labor and employment, equal opportunity, employment eligibility requirements or related matters. Nor will CLOUD ANALYTICS TECHNOLOGIES LLC require in a posting or otherwise U.S. citizenship or lawful permanent residency in the U.S. as a condition of employment except as necessary to comply with law, regulation, executive order, or federal, state, or local government contract

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