AWS Cloud Migration Architect

LTM; Irving (TX); Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical plan

Disability insurance

Company match

Insurance

Parental leave

Job summary

LTM is seeking a senior AWS migration expert to lead enterprise-wide cloud modernization initiatives. The role embeds within application teams to guide migration strategies from on‑prem to AWS, leveraging IaC and automated pipelines.

Deep financial services experience and hands-on cloud engineering are essential for success. Responsibilities include designing secure, highly available architectures, implementing Terraform-based templates, and ensuring regulatory compliance across migrations.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in systems engineering, software/infrastructure with hands-on AWS cloud migrations.
• Financial services background with regulatory awareness (PCI-DSS, SOC2).
• Deep AWS knowledge across compute, storage, networking, security.

Responsibilities

• Lead embedded migration execution with application teams.
• Assess legacy architectures and map dependencies for migration paths.
• Design target AWS architectures that meet performance and latency needs.
• Implement IaC templates using Terraform to provision infra.
• Build automated deployment pipelines and runbooks.

Skills

AWS cloud engineering

Infrastructure as Code

Migration planning

Security & governance

CI/CD automation

Python/Go scripting

Networking and AWS services

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

AWS CDK

GitLab CI / Jenkins / CodePipeline

MGN / DMS

Job description

LTM is a global technology consulting and digital solutions company that enables enterprises across industries to reimagine business models, accelerate innovation, and maximize growth by harnessing digital technologies. As a digital transformation partner to more than 700+ clients, LTM brings extensive domain and technology expertise to help drive superior competitive differentiation, customer experiences, and business outcomes in a converging world. Powered by nearly 90,000 talented and entrepreneurial professionals across more than 30 countries, LTM a Larsen & Toubro Group company combines the industry-acclaimed strengths of erstwhile Larsen and Toubro Infotech and Mindtree in solving the most complex business challenges and delivering transformation at scale. For more information, please visit www.ltm.com

Location: Remote

Position Overview

The customer is launching a major enterprise-wide initiative to migrate and modernize their complex, legacy on-premises application portfolio to Amazon Web Services (AWS).

In this role, you will be embedded directly as a dedicated, architecture guidance and hands-on cloud expert within specific application development teams. You will provide end-to-end technical guidance of migrating highly complex, high-throughput financial applications from on-premises data centers to AWS.

The ideal candidate has over 10 years of deep technical experience, a proven track record of executing complex cloud migrations, strong architectural knowledge, and hands-on mastery of Infrastructure as Code (laC) and AWS services.

Key Responsibilities

1. Embedded Migration Execution

• Application Assessment: Partner with your assigned application development team to analyze legacy architectures, map dependencies, and determine the optimal migration path (Rehost, Replatform, or Refactor).
• Hands-on Migration: Execute the technical migration of complex workloads, databases, and data flows from on-premises environments to AWS, ensuring minimal downtime and zero data loss.
• Cutover & Validation: Lead technical cutover planning, execute migration waves, and perform post-migration validation and performance tuning.
• Target State Architecture: Design secure, resilient, and highly available AWS target architectures tailored to the specific performance and latency requirements of financial applications.
• Integration & Hybrid Cloud: Design and implement secure connectivity between migrated cloud workloads and remaining on-premises systems or shared enterprise services.
• Disaster Recovery: Implement robust multi-region or multi-AZ backup, recovery, and business continuity patterns.

3. Infrastructure as Code (laC) & Automation

• Declarative Infrastructure: Write, test, and maintain modular, reusable Infrastructure as Code (laC) templates using Terraform to provision all application infrastructure.
• CI/CD Integration: Build and integrate automated deployment pipelines (using GitLab Cl, Jenkins, or AWS CodePipeline) to establish fully automated, auditable deployment workflows.
• Automation Scripting: Develop automation scripts (Python, Bash, or Go) to streamline migration tasks, data validation, and operational runbooks.

4. Security, Compliance & Governance

• Financial Guardrails: Ensure all migrated architectures strictly adhere to financial regulatory standards (e.g., PCI-DSS, SOC2) and internal security policies.
• Identity & Access Management: Implement least-privilege access controls using AWS IAM, role-based access control (RBAC), and security group configurations.
• Data Protection: Configure end-to-end encryption for data-at-rest and data-in-transit using AWS KMS and secure certificate management.

Must Have

• Experience: 10+ years of professional experience in systems engineering, software development, or infrastructure engineering, with a heavy focus on hands-on AWS cloud engineering and migrations.
• Financial Services Background: 3+ years of experience working in a financial services institution (eg., investment banking, retail banking, fintech, or clearinghouses), with a strong understanding of financial security, compliance,
• and data protection requirements.
• AWS Expertise: Deep hands-on knowledge of core AWS services, including:
• Compute & Containers: EC2, ECS, EKS, AWS Lambda
• Networking: VPC, Transit Gateway, Route 53, ELB/ALB
• Storage & Databases: S3, RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB
• Security & Management: IAM, KMS, CloudWatch, CloudTrail
• laC Proficiency: Advanced, production-proven experience writing declarative infrastructure using Cloud formation or Terraform.
• AWS CDK with Python or TypeScript development - Ability to design CDK construct architectures, review constructs for best practices, and guide teams on CDK patterns for multi-account, multi-environment deployments.
• Migration Tooling: Hands-on experience with migration tools such as AWS Application Migration Service (MGN), Database Migration Service (DMS), or equivalent enterprise migration tooling.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with LTM (LTIM):

Benefits and Perks:

• Medical Plan Covering Medical, Dental, Vision
• Term and Long-Term Disability Coverage
• Plan with Company match.
• Insurance
• Paternity and Maternity Leave

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Disclaimer:

The compensation and benefits information provided herein is accurate as of the date of this posting.

LTM is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity in the workplace. Our employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions), gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, age, family-care status, veteran status, marital status, civil union status, domestic partnership status, military service, handicap or disability or history of handicap or disability, genetic information, atypical hereditary cellular or blood trait, union affiliation, affectional or sexual orientation or preference, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law, except where such considerations are bona fide occupational qualifications permitted by law.

Safe return to office:

In order to comply with LTM s company COVID-19 vaccine mandate, candidates must be able to provide proof of full vaccination against COVID-19 before or by the date of hire. Alternatively, one may submit a request for reasonable accommodation from LTM s COVID-19 vaccination mandate for approval, in accordance with applicable state and federal law, by the date of hire. Any request is subject to review through LTM s applicable processes.