Cloud Architect

Diverse Lynx, LLC; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Diverse Lynx LLC is guiding a complex VMware-to-AWS migration, leveraging AI-enabled workflows to accelerate discovery, assessment, and modernization. The leadership team will architect a secure landing zone and develop migration roadmaps across multiple AWS services, ensuring governance and reliability throughout the program.

The role requires strong collaboration with architects, engineers, and stakeholders, applying Terraform-based IaC, cloud patterns, and automated validation to achieve a

Qualifications

• Experience migrating VMware workloads to AWS.
• Strong architecture and governance capability.
• Experience with AWS services and migration tools.

Responsibilities

• Lead discovery and assessment for AWS migration.
• Define target landing zone and migration roadmaps.
• Lead AI-driven migration enablement using Claude and AWS AI services.
• Oversee migration execution and modernization including containerization to ECS/EKS.
• Establish IaC standards with Terraform and integrate CI/CD.

Skills

Cloud migration leadership

AWS architecture design

Terraform IaC

AI-driven migration

Tools

Matilda

AWS Discovery

Device42

Terraform

Agentic AI platforms

Claude

AWS MGN

Job description

AWS Discovery, Assessment, VMWare Migration, Landing Zone, Terraform, Matilda Discovery, Jenkins, AWS Bedrock, Claude LLM (Good To Have)Role Summary
Lead the end-to-end migration of VMware-based datacenter workloads to AWS using Agentic AI-driven migration solutions. Define cloud architecture, migration strategy, governance standards, and technical execution while providing leadership to architects, engineers, and stakeholders throughout the transformation program.
Key Responsibilities

1. Discovery & Assessment

• Lead infrastructure and application discovery using tools such as Matilda, AWS Discovery, Device42, or similar platforms.
• Assess servers, applications, databases, storage, and network dependencies for AWS migration readiness.
• Analyze infrastructure inventory, utilization, business criticality, risks, and remediation requirements.
• Perform migration strategy assessment using the AWS 6R framework (Rehost, Replatform, Refactor, Re-Architect, Retire, Retain).

2. AWS Architecture & Migration Strategy

• Define target AWS landing zone architecture aligned with enterprise security, networking, and governance standards.
• Develop migration roadmaps, migration waves, sizing recommendations, and cost models.
• Design AWS infrastructure solutions leveraging services such as EC2, ECS/EKS, FSx, EFS, Route 53, Transit Gateway, PrivateLink, API Gateway, and Lambda.
• Ensure architecture decisions support scalability, resiliency, security, and operational excellence.

3. Agentic AI-Driven Migration Enablement

• Lead migration execution using Agentic AI platforms powered by Claude and AWS AI services.
• Design and implement AI agents, skills, workflows, and automation tools to accelerate migration activities.
• Utilize AI-driven dependency analysis and business prioritization to Eligible to workimize migration wave planning.
• Drive automated migration validation, testing, cutover, and post-migration verification activities.

4. Migration Execution & Modernization

• Provide technical leadership for VMware workload migration using AWS MGN and related migration services.
• Lead modernization initiatives including containerization and migration to ECS or EKS where appropriate.
• Oversee Windows and Linux upgrades, security hardening, patching, and compliance remediation for migrated workloads.
• Resolve complex migration challenges and ensure successful workload transition to AWS.

5. Cloud Engineering Standards

• Define and enforce Infrastructure as Code (IaC) standards using Terraform.
• Establish cloud architecture patterns, reusable modules, migration standards, and deployment best practices.
• Integrate CI/CD, automation, and configuration management tools to support cloud operations.

6. Governance & Leadership

• Act as trusted advisor to client executives, technical leadership, and Architecture Review Boards.
• Lead architecture governance, technical reviews, risk management, and migration decision-making.
• Collaborate with application, infrastructure, network, security, and business stakeholders.
• Mentor architects and engineering teams across cloud, network, security, and platform domains.

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