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While it is not required, we encourage you to include an up-to-date resume along with a completed job application to give you the best opportunity to be considered. A complete resume helps us to better understand your unique background, relevant experiences, and passions. We look forward to learning about you.\nNorfolk Southern offers a unique opportunity to be part of our proud legacy that spans nearly 200 years. We are a customer-centric, operations-driven team dedicated to advancing safety, serving communities, and driving innovation for tomorrow's rail. As part of Norfolk Southern, you’ll join a collaborative team where there are opportunities for growth across the organization. We are building a culture where everyone can thrive by owning and driving exceptional results, being humble and leading with trust, serving our customers with excellence, and collaborating and coaching to win.\nPrimary Purpose:\nNorfolk Southern is seeking an experienced Cloud Architect to lead the design and evolution of secure, resilient, scalable, and cost-optimized cloud solutions, with a primary focus on Amazon Web Services (AWS). This role will define reference architectures and guardrails aligned with the AWS Well-Architected Framework; architect multi-account landing zones, identity and access, networking, compute, storage, data, integration, container, serverless, observability, backup, and disaster recovery capabilities; and advance infrastructure as code, policy as code, and CI/CD automation. 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The successful candidate will combine deep hands-on AWS expertise with strategic thinking to drive Cloud transformation.\nPrimary Responsibilities:\nDesign secure, scalable, resilient, and cost-optimized AWS architectures aligned with business strategy and the AWS Well-Architected Framework.\nDefine cloud governance, reference architectures, guardrails, standards, and reusable patterns for the AWS environment.\nAssess workloads and AWS services for modernization, performance, resiliency, security, and cost optimization opportunities.\nProvide technical leadership for AWS landing zones, networking, identity, compute, storage, data, integration, containers, and serverless services.\nPartner with Cybersecurity to embed identity management, encryption, logging, monitoring, vulnerability management, and compliance controls by design.\nEvaluate emerging AWS capabilities and recommend practical adoption approaches, including generative AI where appropriate.\nGuide application and platform teams on cloud-native design, migration patterns, and architecture decisions.\nAdvance infrastructure as code, policy as code, CI/CD, observability, backup, and disaster recovery practices.\nMaintain clear architecture documentation, decision records, standards, and shared knowledge repositories.\nDrive adoption through stakeholder engagement, technical mentoring, and effective change management.\nEducation Preferred\nBachelor's degree, preferably in Information Technology or similar\nExperience Required\n5+ years of cloud architecture or engineering experience\nExperience defining AWS architecture principles, standards, guardrails, and automation patterns.\nExperience translating business priorities into scalable AWS architecture and roadmap decisions.\nTechnical Skills Preferred\nAWS Services: Control Tower, IAM Identity Center, VPC, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, ECS or EKS, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, AWS Config, Security Hub, and GuardDuty.\nAgile (SAFE) Development Methodology\nSDLC Methodology\nITIL v4 Foundations\nFunctional experience with programming languages, i.e., Javascript, Terraform, XML, HTML, CSS, Angular, REST\nKnowledge of ServiceNow platform capabilities and features\nExperience and Soft Skills Preferred\nStrong knowledge of cloud-native design and modernization, including ACK, ArgoCD, Terraform or AWS CloudFormation/CDK, Git-based workflows, CI/CD, containers, serverless, and observability.\nExperience as an Architect performing E2E implementation, deployments, and upgrades.\nExcellent communication and collaboration skills across security, infrastructure, application, data, and business teams.\nDemonstrated technical leadership, sound judgment, problem-solving ability, and influence in complex environments.\nCertifications Preferred\nAWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional or Associate\nWork Conditions\nEnvironment: Hybrid on-site (2) days and remote work (3) days per week.\nShift Work: No\nOn-Call: Yes\nWeekend Work: Yes\nCompany Overview\nSince 1827, Norfolk Southern Corporation (NYSE: NSC) and its predecessor companies have safely moved the goods and materials that drive the U.S. economy. Today, it operates a customer-centric and operations-driven freight transportation network. Committed to furthering sustainability, Norfolk Southern helps its customers avoid 15 million tons of yearly carbon emissions by shipping via rail. Its dedicated team members deliver more than 7 million carloads annually, from agriculture to consumer goods, and is the largest rail shipper of auto products and metals in North America. Norfolk Southern also has the most extensive intermodal network in the eastern U.S., serving a majority of the country’s population and manufacturing base, with connections to every major container port on the Atlantic coast as well as the Gulf of Mexico and Great Lakes. Learn more by visiting www.NorfolkSouthern.com.\nAt Norfolk Southern, we believe in celebrating our individuality. By leveraging the unique backgrounds and viewpoints of our employees, we can create a culture of innovation, respect, and inclusion. 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