Cloud Solution Architect

Key Responsibilities

• On-Site Migration & Platform Planning: Spend 2-3 days per week on-site with clients mapping legacy workloads, architecting secure enterprise landing zones, and designing comprehensive migration strategies.
• Hands-on Prototyping & Automation: Actively build, configure, and automate infrastructure components using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to incubate projects, moving them from architectural diagrams to live, provisioned environments.
• Cloud Modernization: Lead modernization initiatives, designing fully serverless or containerized (EKS/AKS) architectures, and implementing automated cost-optimization strategies.
• AI Toolset Evaluation: Actively evaluate and identify modern, emerging AI-driven tools that can optimize platform management, accelerate migration discovery, or automate repetitive infrastructure tasks.
• Mentorship & Enablement: Serve as a trusted advisor, creating comprehensive documentation and providing detailed guidance to help upskill and enable client engineering teams.

Technical Skill Profile

Cloud & Platform Engineering (Core Focus)

• Enterprise Cloud Architecture: Deep, certified expertise in AWS and/or Microsoft Azure.
• Platform & Landing Zones: Strong, demonstrable experience designing secure enterprise landing zones using Account Factory for Terraform (AFT) or similar multi-account automation frameworks.
• Migration Strategies: Extensive track record planning and executing enterprise migrations for legacy systems (including on-prem to cloud and Citrix-to-cloud transitions).
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Advanced capabilities with HashiCorp Terraform and AWS CloudFormation/Azure Resource Manager to automate complex cloud environments from scratch.
• Networking: Proficient in cloud-native networking solutions, including multicast, VPCs, subnets, routing, and security group design.

Modernization & DevOps

• Containerization & Serverless: Hands-on experience designing and building solutions with container orchestrators (e.g., EKS, AKS) and fully serverless architectures.
• Automation & Scripting: Strong capability in scripting (Python, Bash, or Go) to build custom automation, integrate cloud APIs, and manage infrastructure dynamically.
• Disaster Recovery (DR): Experience designing and implementing robust DR environments to ensure enterprise business continuity.