AWS Technical / Cloud Architect

Envision Technology Solutions; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Envision Technology Solutions seeks a seasoned cloud architect to lead AWS migration, design target-state AWS architecture, and drive modernization of legacy apps. You will assess dependencies, define data flows, and guide platform engineering across on-prem and OpenShift environments.

The role requires deep AWS expertise, strong leadership, and hands-on development with Java/Spring Boot, Angular, Python/Node.js, plus experience with microservices and IaC.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in AWS services (EC2, S3, Lambda, ECS, EKS, RDS, DynamoDB, API Gateway, CloudWatch).
• Hands-on in Java 25 and Spring Boot 4.1+, Angular 22, Python/Node.js.
• Involved in enterprise cloud architecture and solution design.
• Microservices, event-driven architecture, and cloud migration.
• OpenShift, OpenShift-based deployments, Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, EKS.
• Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and CloudFormation.
• CI/CD with Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or Azure DevOps.
• REST APIs and enterprise integration patterns.
• Kafka, MQ, and enterprise messaging platforms.
• AWS security and networking, IAM, encryption, and compliance.
• Monitoring/observability with CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana.
• Application modernization, cloud performance, and cost optimization.

Skills

AWS cloud architecture

Java/Spring Boot

Angular

Python/Node.js

Microservices

OpenShift

Docker

Kubernetes

Cloud migration

Terraform

CI/CD

REST APIs

Event-driven architecture

Security/compliance

Monitoring/observability

Leadership

Tools

OpenShift

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

CloudFormation

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

Job description

Locations: Charlotte, NC / Jersey City,NJ

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

• 10+ years of experience in AWS services, including EC2, S3, Lambda, ECS, EKS, RDS, DynamoDB, API Gateway, and CloudWatch
• Involved in Enterprise cloud architecture and solution design
• Hands on in Java 25 and Spring Boot 4.1+,Angular 22, Python/Node.js
• Microservices and event-driven architecture, Oracle Database and cloud database migration,JBoss Application Server
• OpenShift Platform and legacy VM-based deployments, Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, and EKS
• Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and CloudFormation
• CI/CD using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or Azure DevOps
• REST APIs and enterprise integration patterns
• Kafka, MQ, and enterprise messaging platforms
• AWS security, IAM, VPC, networking, encryption, secrets management, and compliance
• Monitoring and observability using CloudWatch, Prometheus, and Grafana
• Application modernization and cloud migration patterns
• Cloud performance, scalability, resiliency, disaster recovery, and cost optimization
• DevSecOps, platform engineering, and automated deployment practices
• Lead the discovery and assessment of applications deployed across legacy VM-based infrastructure and OpenShift environments.
• Analyze the application inventory, current architecture, technology stack, infrastructure footprint, business criticality, non-functional requirements, and technical debt.
• Map application dependencies, data flows, interfaces, APIs, messaging platforms, and upstream and downstream integrations.
• Assess application, infrastructure, database, security, compliance, and operational readiness for migration to AWS.
• Categorize applications based on business criticality, cloud readiness, migration complexity, dependencies, risks, and modernization requirements.
• Evaluate legacy and OpenShift-based applications and recommend appropriate rehost, replatform, refactor, or re-architect migration strategies.
• Define target-state AWS architecture covering landing zone, networking, compute, containers, databases, integrations, security, observability, backup, and disaster recovery.
• Design cloud-native solutions using microservices, APIs, event-driven architectures, containers, serverless technologies, and suitable AWS-ma naged services.
• Develop application modernization strategies, including application decomposition, API enablement, containerization, and migration from legacy technologies.
• Define Oracle database and data-migration strategies covering sequencing, validation, reconciliation, cutover, data integrity, and rollback requirements.
• Develop application migration waves, dependency-based sequencing, implementation roadmaps, milestones, timelines, and resource requirements.
• Establish cloud security, IAM, encryption, network security, governance, compliance controls, architecture guardrails, and risk-mitigation recommendations.
• Define DevSecOps, CI/CD, Infrastructure-as-Code, automated testing, security scanning, release management, monitoring, and platform-operations models.
• Prepare high-level estimates for assessment, migration, modernization, testing, deployment, transition, cloud costs, and resource requirements.
• Lead architecture reviews, technical design discussions, proposal development, executive presentations, stakeholder collaboration, and technical mentoring across onshore and offshore teams.