Enterprise AWS Cloud Architect — Design for Scale & Security

Norfolk Southern; Atlanta (GA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Norfolk Southern seeks an experienced Cloud Architect to lead secure, scalable AWS solutions, shaping reference architectures, guardrails, and multi-account landing zones. You will partner with security, data, and business teams to modernize workloads, automate CI/CD, and ensure governance across the cloud environment.

The role requires hands-on AWS expertise, strong leadership, and clear architecture documentation.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of cloud architecture or engineering experience.
• Experience defining AWS architecture principles, standards, guardrails, and automation patterns.
• Ability to translate business priorities into scalable AWS architecture and roadmap decisions.

Responsibilities

• Design secure, scalable, and cost-optimized AWS architectures aligned with business strategy.
• Define cloud governance, reference architectures, guardrails, standards, and reusable patterns.
• Guide application and platform teams on cloud-native design and migration patterns.
• Advance infrastructure as code, CI/CD, observability, backups, and disaster recovery.

Skills

AWS Architecture

Cloud Governance

CI/CD Automation

Leadership

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

CDK

ArgoCD

AWS CloudWatch/GuardDuty

Job description

Norfolk Southern seeks an experienced Cloud Architect to lead secure, scalable AWS solutions, shaping reference architectures, guardrails, and multi-account landing zones. You will partner with security, data, and business teams to modernize workloads, automate CI/CD, and ensure governance across the cloud environment.

The role requires hands-on AWS expertise, strong leadership, and clear architecture documentation.