Senior Cloud Migration & Modernization Architect

Amazon Inc.; New York, Northern (NY, KY); Hybrid; USD 169,000 - 229,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is seeking a Sr. Migration & Modernization Specialist Solutions Architect to build trusted advisor relationships with customers and lead modernization/migration journeys to AWS.

You’ll craft scalable architectures, drive high-impact IT transformations, and share best practices through workshops, reference architectures, and public content. You’ll engage executives and technologists alike, translating complex cloud challenges into actionable, business-focused roadmaps

Qualifications

• Experience architecting or deploying Cloud/Virtualization solutions in enterprise customers.
• Experience architecting infrastructure solutions using Linux/Unix and Windows with server/load balancing/HA-DR/storage architectures.
• Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences, including executive level stakeholders or clients.
• 8+ years of design, implementation, or consulting experience across core infrastructure domains: virtualization (VMware), containers, storage, databases, and application modernization.

Responsibilities

• Provide comprehensive technical expertise in infrastructure migration and application modernization strategies (e.g., VMware-to-AWS, mainframe exit, database migration, containerization).
• Assess customer on-premises environments and design scalable, cost-optimized target architectures on AWS that align with business objectives.
• Define end-to-end migration strategies from discovery to post-migration optimization.
• Represent the voice of the customer and collaborate with field/central teams to feed product/service roadmaps.

Skills

Cloud architecture

VMware virtualization

Containers

Storage design

Executive communication

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is seeking a Sr. Migration & Modernization Specialist Solutions Architect to build trusted advisor relationships with customers and lead modernization/migration journeys to AWS.

You’ll craft scalable architectures, drive high-impact IT transformations, and share best practices through workshops, reference architectures, and public content. You’ll engage executives and technologists alike, translating complex cloud challenges into actionable, business-focused roadmaps