Cloud Architect

We are seeking a Senior Cloud Migration Architect to embed with our development team and lead the AWS platform configuration and CI/CD automation for a large-scale enterprise cloud migration program. The program covers 30+ applications across migration approaches such as Elastic Beanstalk, Amazon EKS, EC2/Cloud VM - to be delivered across multiple sprints.Required Qualifications:· 5–6+ years hands-on experience building and operating production workloads on AWS, with deep knowledge of Elastic Beanstalk, EKS, EC2, RDS, VPC, IAM, S3, CloudWatch, and Secrets Manager· 3+ years hands-on with Kubernetes - production EKS preferred, including Helm, kubectl, ingress (ALB/NGINX), HPA, and troubleshooting pods/services/networking· Production experience with ArgoCD or Flux - designed app-of-apps structure, managed multi-environment promotion, and resolved GitOps drift in real workloads. This is non-negotiable.· Strong Azure DevOps Pipelines (YAML) experience - build pipelines, multi-stage release pipelines, variable groups, service connections, and self-hosted/Microsoft-hosted agents. Equivalent strong experience in another major CI/CD tool (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins) is acceptable if Azure DevOps can be picked up quickly· Solid Docker skills - multi-stage builds, image hardening, ECR· Infrastructure-as-Code in production: Terraform (preferred) or CloudFormation/CDK· Database familiarity - comfortable working with DBA teams on RDS (SQL Server and PostgreSQL), connection strings, secrets rotation, and migration cutover· Linux administration (RHEL/Amazon Linux/Ubuntu) and shell scripting (bash)· Source control with Git - branching strategies, pull requests, code review discipline· Strong written communication - must produce clear runbooks, architecture diagrams, and PR descriptions· AWS certifications: AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional or DevOps Engineer - ProfessionalPreferred Qualifications:· CKA / CKAD (Certified Kubernetes Administrator/Developer)· Experience migrating .NET and Java applications from on-premises to AWS· Experience operating COTS products in containerized or cloud environments· Experience with service mesh (Istio, App Mesh) or API gateways· Exposure to HashiCorp Vault, secrets rotation, and certificate management· Familiarity with DataDog, New Relic, or Splunk in addition to native AWS observability· Experience with blue/green and canary deployment patterns