Senior AWS Cloud Architect - Enterprise Modernization

Volto Consulting; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Volto Consulting is seeking an AWS Technical/Cloud Architect to lead enterprise cloud architecture initiatives in an on-site capacity in the Jersey City/New Jersey area. The candidate will work across migration, modernization, and platform engineering, leveraging OpenShift, Kubernetes, and AWS-native services.

The role requires deep hands-on expertise with Java/Spring, microservices, CI/CD, and security, with a focus on scalable, compliant cloud solutions and effective collaboration with

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in AWS and cloud architecture.
• Hands-on with Java stack: Java, Spring MVC, Spring Boot.
• Experience with migration, OpenShift, Kubernetes, and messaging systems.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

AWS Cloud

Java

Spring Boot

Microservices

REST APIs

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Terraform

CloudFormation

CI/CD

Kafka

Security IAM

Observability

Tools

Docker

OpenShift

Terraform

CloudFormation

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Volto Consulting is seeking an AWS Technical/Cloud Architect to lead enterprise cloud architecture initiatives in an on-site capacity in the Jersey City/New Jersey area. The candidate will work across migration, modernization, and platform engineering, leveraging OpenShift, Kubernetes, and AWS-native services.

The role requires deep hands-on expertise with Java/Spring, microservices, CI/CD, and security, with a focus on scalable, compliant cloud solutions and effective collaboration with