Senior Cloud Migration & Modernization Architect

Socket.dev; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 154,000 - 208,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Job summary

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Senior Specialist Solutions Architect focused on Infrastructure Migration and Modernization in Austin, TX. You will design migration strategies, assess complex portfolios, and guide customers through hybrid and cloud-native architectures.

You will collaborate with enterprise stakeholders, craft reference designs, and publish guidance that accelerates customer adoption of AWS services.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience.
• 3+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience.
• 10+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience.
• 5+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience.
• Experience working with end user or developer communities.

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end migration and modernization solutions by analyzing customer application portfolios, identifying dependencies, assessing migration feasibility, and architecting reliable, cost-optimized paths to AWS.
• Serve as a trusted technical advisor to customer stakeholders from developers and system administrators to directors and C-level executives, defining cloud strategies and ensuring solutions align with their business objectives.
• Lead technical solution discussions by diving deeply into design choices, best practices, and use cases, while proactively identifying high-risk or overly complex options and engaging the right specialist resources when needed.
• Author and deliver thought leadership content such as whitepapers, reference architectures, and presentations that educate customers on migration best practices and AWS platform capabilities.
• Collaborate with internal teams including sales, business development, professional services, and engineering to progress customer engagements through their lifecycle and accelerate solution adoption.

Skills

8+ years experience

3+ years design/implementation/consult

10+ years IT development/consulting

Job description

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Senior Specialist Solutions Architect focused on Infrastructure Migration and Modernization in Austin, TX. You will design migration strategies, assess complex portfolios, and guide customers through hybrid and cloud-native architectures.

You will collaborate with enterprise stakeholders, craft reference designs, and publish guidance that accelerates customer adoption of AWS services.