AWS Cloud Solutions Architect

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Brazil.

📋 Description

• Lead the technical delivery of intricate migration and modernization projects, which include assessments and mobilization under the AWS Migration Acceleration Program.

• Direct technical discovery and design multi-service, cloud-native architectures on AWS.

• Technically guide teams of 1–4 engineers and oversee the technical roadmap of 2–3 engagements simultaneously.

• Take ownership of technical design decisions within the confines of project scope.

• Address technical disagreements and manage scope discussions with clients.

• Represent the client during customer sessions, which encompass executive-level and joint AWS stakeholder meetings.

• Dedicate approximately 25% of time to pre-sales activities, including discovery, solution design, and collaboration with AWS account teams in North America.

• Resolve high-risk technical obstacles and escalate issues, including critical production incidents.

• Ensure engagements remain on track despite evolving delivery expectations and uncertainties.

• Develop architectural guardrails, reusable frameworks, and components.

• Mentor engineers and disseminate knowledge through internal sessions, workshops, whitepapers, and technical advocacy.

• Act as a subject-matter expert in areas such as MSSQL Server, PostgreSQL, EKS, VMware, data, security, or networking.

• Assist in shaping technical offerings and accelerators in accordance with market trends and AWS developments.

• Report to an Engineering Manager located in Europe and lead distributed engineering teams based in the US and Budapest.

• Collaborate closely with AI/ML and Application Development practices.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 8 years of experience in infrastructure or cloud engineering, with at least 5 years spent designing and implementing solutions on AWS.

• A proven history of leading at least two large-scale cloud migrations from start to finish.

• Practical experience in database migration with MSSQL Server, Oracle, or PostgreSQL.

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional certification.

• Comprehensive knowledge of core AWS services, including EC2, Lambda, ECS, EKS, S3, RDS, EFS, EBS, VPC, API Gateway, CloudFront, SNS, SQS, IAM, Security Hub, GuardDuty, KMS, AWS Private CA, CloudWatch, and AWS Application Migration Service.

• Strong skills in Infrastructure as Code, preferably with Terraform, while CloudFormation, AWS CDK, or Ansible are also acceptable.

• Hands-on experience creating and managing CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, GitLab, Bitbucket, or similar tools.

• Experience in running containerized workloads using Docker and Kubernetes or EKS.

• Proficient networking knowledge, including TCP/IP, DNS, load balancers, firewalls, VPN, VPC, Route 53, ELB, and CloudFront.

• Strong understanding of security practices, including IAM, least privilege, access control, endpoint security, and data encryption.

• Exceptional problem-solving and communication abilities.

• Comfortable working in a distributed team with a few hours of daily overlap with Central European Time.

• A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

• Nice to have: Experience with AWS MAP, migrations from VMware/on-premises data centers/Azure/GCP, AWS Transform, and AWS Specialty certifications.

🏝️ Benefits

• Remote contractor arrangement.

• Full-time schedule.

• US time zone with a few hours of overlap with Central European Time.