AWS Cloud Solutions Architect at Cloudary SAS

<p>As a <strong>Senior AWS Cloud Solutions Architect</strong>, 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.</p><p style="min-height: 1.7em;"></p><br></br><p><strong>What you'll be doing:</strong></p><ul><li><p>Lead the technical delivery of complex, high-impact migration and modernization engagements, including AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) assessments and mobilization.</p></li><li><p>Lead technical discovery and design multi-service, cloud-native AWS architectures that turn business goals into scalable blueprints.</p></li><li><p>Technically lead teams of 1–4 engineers, and manage the technical roadmap of 2–3 engagements in parallel.</p></li><li><p>Own technical design decisions within project scope. Resolve technical disagreements and handle scope conversations with clients professionally.</p></li><li><p>Represent Client in customers sessions, including executive-level conversations and joint sessions with AWS stakeholders.</p></li><li><p>Spend around 25% of your time on pre-sales: discovery, solution design and co-selling with AWS account teams in North America.</p></li><li><p>Resolve high-risk technical blockers and escalations, including critical production incidents.</p></li><li><p>Adapt to changing delivery expectations and keep engagements on track under uncertainty.</p></li><li><p>Build architectural guardrails, reusable frameworks and components that raise quality across the practice.</p></li><li><p>Coach engineers and share knowledge through internal sessions, workshops, whitepapers and technical evangelism.</p></li><li><p>Be the go-to expert in one or more domains, such as MSSQL Server, PostgreSQL, EKS, VMware, data, security or networking.</p></li><li><p>Help shape our technical offerings and accelerators in line with market and AWS trends.</p></li></ul><p><br /><br /><strong>What you bring:</strong></p><ul><li><p>8+ years in infrastructure or cloud engineering, including 5+ years designing and delivering on AWS.</p></li><li><p>A proven track record of leading at least two large-scale cloud migrations end to end.</p></li><li><p>Hands-on database migration experience with MSSQL Server, Oracle or PostgreSQL.</p></li><li><p>AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional.</p></li><li><p>In-depth knowledge of core AWS services, including:</p><ul><li><p>Compute and containers: EC2, Lambda, ECS, EKS</p></li><li><p>Storage and databases: S3, RDS, EFS, EBS</p></li><li><p>Networking and integration: VPC, API Gateway, CloudFront, SNS, SQS</p></li><li><p>Security: IAM, Security Hub, GuardDuty, KMS, AWS Private CA</p></li><li><p>Operations and migration: CloudWatch, AWS Application Migration Service</p></li></ul></li><li><p>Strong Infrastructure as Code skills. Terraform is preferred; CloudFormation, AWS CDK or Ansible are also welcome.</p></li><li><p>Hands-on experience building and running CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, GitLab, Bitbucket or similar.</p></li><li><p>Experience running containerized workloads with Docker and Kubernetes or EKS.</p></li><li><p>Strong networking knowledge: TCP/IP, DNS, load balancers, firewalls and VPN, plus AWS networking services such as VPC, Route 53, ELB and CloudFront.</p></li><li><p>Strong security knowledge: IAM, least privilege, access control, endpoint security and data encryption.</p></li><li><p>Excellent problem-solving and communication skills. You are confident with executives and engineering teams alike.</p></li><li><p>Comfort working in a distributed team, with a few hours of daily overlap with Central European Time.</p></li><li><p>A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT or a related field, or equivalent experience.</p></li></ul><p><br /><strong>Nice to have:</strong></p><ul><li><p>Hands-on experience with AWS MAP phases: Assess, Mobilize, and Migrate & Modernize.</p></li><li><p>Migrations from VMware, on-premises data centers, Azure or GCP.</p></li><li><p>Experience with AI-assisted migration and modernization tooling, such as AWS Transform.</p></li><li><p>AWS Specialty certifications, such as Security or Advanced Networking.</p></li></ul><p style="min-height: 1.7em;"></p><p><strong>Final Details</strong></p><p>Remote</p><p>Contractor USD Full Time ( US time zone with a few hours of overlap with CET )</p><p>Start date : ASAP</p><p style="min-height: 1.7em;"></p><p style="min-height: 1.7em;"></p><br/><br/>Please mention the word **WONDER** and tag RNzYuMTMuMzMuMjc= when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RNzYuMTMuMzMuMjc=). This is a beta feature to avoid spam applicants. Companies can search these words to find applicants that read this and see they're human.