AWS Cloud Infrastructure Architect

Robotics Prcocess Automation, LLC; Frisco (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology solutions firm located in Texas seeks an AWS Cloud Infrastructure Architect. The role requires 8+ years of experience in Cloud Architecture, with specialized expertise in AWS services. Key responsibilities involve designing scalable environments, leading migrations, and ensuring governance and compliance. The ideal candidate will possess strong skills in Kubernetes and Terraform, along with excellent communication abilities. This position offers an opportunity to lead and mentor engineering teams in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in Cloud Architecture or similar.
• 5+ years of advanced AWS experience across various services.
• Proven experience leading large-scale AWS migrations.

Responsibilities

• Architect end-to-end infrastructure solutions leveraging AWS.
• Lead performance tuning and capacity planning for AWS workloads.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to engineering and product teams.

Skills

Cloud Architecture

Kubernetes

AWS (EC2, VPC, EKS)

Infrastructure Engineering

Terraform

Communication

Job description

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.

ROBOTIC PROCESS AUTOMATION 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. ROBOTIC PROCESS AUTOMATION 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 ROBOTIC PROCESS AUTOMATION 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.