# Senior Cloud Migration Architect (Contract)

We are looking for a Senior Cloud Migration Architect to join our development team and lead AWS platform configuration and CI/CD automation for a large-scale enterprise cloud migration. This program spans 30+ applications using migration patterns including Elastic Beanstalk, Amazon EKS, and EC2, delivered across multiple sprints. This is a hands-on role for someone who can build, troubleshoot, and mentor while delivering production-ready environments sprint by sprint. Contract: State of Michigan (SOM) Duration: 6 months with possible extension AWS Platform Configuration Configure and manage Elastic Beanstalk environments across Dev, Test, and Prod Stand up and operate EKS clusters including node groups, autoscaling, ingress, and namespaces Provision and harden EC2 environments including AMIs, sizing, and patching strategy Partner with DBA teams on RDS (SQL Server & PostgreSQL) setup Design VPCs, IAM roles, security groups, and KMS integrations using least-privilege principles Build reusable Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred) CI/CD & GitOps Build Azure DevOps pipelines (YAML) for multiple deployment patterns: Elastic Beanstalk deployments EKS container workflows with ECR

- **Id**: 777947
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/staffordgray-senior-cloud-migration-architect-contract>
- **Role**: DevOps
- **Role family**: DevOps
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Employment type**: contractor
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Lansing, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-05-18T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-05-18
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T07:46:22Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 176
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2779
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: IT Consulting & Digital Transformation

## Company

- **Id**: 686809
- **Name**: Stafford Gray 2026
- **Domain**: staffordgray.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/staffordgray>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workable

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 70
- **Open postings**: 19
- **Ghost share**: 0.579
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 5
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 82
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: hour
- **Usd annual**: 164000

## Technologies

- **.NET** — Optional: no
- **Amazon CloudWatch** — Optional: no
- **Amazon EC2** — Optional: no
- **Amazon EKS** — Optional: no
- **ArgoCD** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Azure DevOps** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **CloudFormation** — Optional: no
- **Datadog** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **Git** — Optional: no
- **GitOps** — Optional: no
- **Helm** — Optional: no
- **IAM** — Optional: no
- **Java** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Least Privilege** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **New Relic** — Optional: no
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: no
- **Service Mesh** — Optional: no
- **SLI/SLO/SLA** — Optional: no
- **Splunk** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **Terraform** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: yes
- **C#** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ghost
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: stale, company_stale
- **Days open**: 176

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-11T23:41:27Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 2; Filings 12m: 2

## Liveness

- **Score**: 7
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.256
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 176
- **Expected fill days**: 5
- **Reasons**: conf:4, stale_co, velocity, ghost, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 164000
- **Is top pay**: no

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