AWS Cloud Solutions Architect

As a Senior AWS Cloud Solutions Architect, you will be the technical lead on our most complex engagements, from assessment and mobilization to large-scale migration and modernization. You will report to an Engineering Manager based in Europe and lead distributed teams of US- and Budapest-based engineers. You will also work closely with colleagues in our AI/ML and Application Development practices.

What you'll be doing: - Lead the technical delivery of complex, high-impact migration and modernization engagements, including AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) assessments and mobilization.

- Lead technical discovery and design multi-service, cloud-native AWS architectures that turn business goals into scalable blueprints.

- Technically lead teams of 1–4 engineers, and manage the technical roadmap of 2–3 engagements in parallel.

- Own technical design decisions within project scope. Resolve technical disagreements and handle scope conversations with clients professionally.

- Represent Client in customers sessions, including executive-level conversations and joint sessions with AWS stakeholders.

- Spend around 25% of your time on pre-sales: discovery, solution design and co-selling with AWS account teams in North America.

- Resolve high-risk technical blockers and escalations, including critical production incidents.

- Adapt to changing delivery expectations and keep engagements on track under uncertainty.

- Build architectural guardrails, reusable frameworks and components that raise quality across the practice.

- Coach engineers and share knowledge through internal sessions, workshops, whitepapers and technical evangelism.

- Be the go-to expert in one or more domains, such as MSSQL Server, PostgreSQL, EKS, VMware, data, security or networking.

- Help shape our technical offerings and accelerators in line with market and AWS trends.

What you bring: - 8+ years in infrastructure or cloud engineering, including 5+ years designing and delivering on AWS.

- A proven track record of leading at least two large-scale cloud migrations end to end.

- Hands-on database migration experience with MSSQL Server, Oracle or PostgreSQL.

- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional.

- In-depth knowledge of core AWS services, including: - Compute and containers: EC2, Lambda, ECS, EKS

- Storage and databases: S3, RDS, EFS, EBS

- Networking and integration: VPC, API Gateway, CloudFront, SNS, SQS

- Security: IAM, Security Hub, GuardDuty, KMS, AWS Private CA

- Operations and migration: CloudWatch, AWS Application Migration Service

- Strong Infrastructure as Code skills. Terraform is preferred; CloudFormation, AWS CDK or Ansible are also welcome.

- Hands-on experience building and running CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, GitLab, Bitbucket or similar.

- Experience running containerized workloads with Docker and Kubernetes or EKS.

- Strong networking knowledge: TCP/IP, DNS, load balancers, firewalls and VPN, plus AWS networking services such as VPC, Route 53, ELB and CloudFront.

- Strong security knowledge: IAM, least privilege, access control, endpoint security and data encryption.

- Excellent problem-solving and communication skills. You are confident with executives and engineering teams alike.

- Comfort working in a distributed team, with a few hours of daily overlap with Central European Time.

- A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT or a related field, or equivalent experience.

Nice to have: - Hands-on experience with AWS MAP phases: Assess, Mobilize, and Migrate & Modernize.

- Migrations from VMware, on-premises data centers, Azure or GCP.

- Experience with AI-assisted migration and modernization tooling, such as AWS Transform.

- AWS Specialty certifications, such as Security or Advanced Networking.

Final Details Remote Contractor USD Full Time ( US time zone with a few hours of overlap with CET ) Start date : ASAP