AWS Solutions Architect – Contractor

Nextiya LLC; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Nextiya LLC in Charlotte, NC seeks an AWS Migration Architect to assess applications, design cloud migration strategies, and lead multi-account deployments. You will implement Terraform/CloudFormation, security controls, monitoring, and backup processes while collaborating with DevOps and software teams.

Responsibilities include guiding app migrations, optimizing performance and cost, and supporting AI integration using Bedrock and related tooling. Strong AWS expertise required.

Qualifications

• Hands-on AWS architecture and application migration experience.
• Experience managing multi-account AWS environments and governance.
• Strong knowledge of EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, RDS, Aurora, Lambda, ECS/EKS, CloudWatch, CloudTrail.

Responsibilities

• Assess existing applications and suggest migration approaches.
• Design AWS solutions and support migrations for apps and databases.
• Set up multi-account environments using AWS Organizations and Control Tower.
• Implement networking, security, monitoring, and backups.
• Collaborate with DevOps to resolve migration issues.
• Automate infrastructure with Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Improve performance, reliability, and cost.
• Support AI integration using Bedrock and development workflows using Kiro.
• Maintain architecture diagrams and migration docs.

Skills

AWS architecture

Multi-account governance

CI/CD workflows

Terraform

CloudFormation

Security best practices

Disaster recovery

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

Charlotte, United States

Responsibilities

• Assess existing applications and recommend migration approaches.
• Design AWS solutions and support application and database migrations.
• Set up and manage multi-account environments using AWS Organizations and Control Tower.
• Implement networking, access controls, security, monitoring, and backups.
• Work with application, infrastructure, and DevOps teams to resolve migration issues.
• Automate infrastructure using Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Recommend improvements to performance, reliability, and cost.
• Support AI integration using Amazon Bedrock and development workflows using Kiro.
• Maintain architecture diagrams and migration documentation.

Requirements

• Hands-on experience in AWS architecture and application migration.
• Experience managing multi-account AWS environments, governance, and cross-account access.
• Strong knowledge of key AWS services, including EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, RDS, Aurora, Lambda, ECS/EKS, CloudWatch, and CloudTrail.
• Experience with AWS migration tools, including Application Migration Service and Database Migration Service.
• Understanding of AWS security, networking, high availability, and disaster recovery.
• Experience with Terraform or CloudFormation and CI/CD workflows.