AWS Cloud Solutions Architect

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

📋 Description

• Oversee the technical delivery of intricate migration and modernization projects, including assessments and mobilization for the AWS Migration Acceleration Program.

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

• Lead teams of 1–4 engineers technically while managing the technical roadmap for 2–3 concurrent engagements.

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

• Address technical disagreements and manage scope discussions with clients.

• Represent the client in customer interactions, including executive-level meetings and joint sessions with AWS stakeholders.

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

• Tackle high-risk technical challenges and escalations, including critical production incidents.

• Maintain project timelines amid changing delivery expectations and uncertainty.

• Develop architectural guardrails, reusable frameworks, and components.

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

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

• Contribute to shaping technical offerings and accelerators in alignment with market and AWS trends.

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

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

⛳️ Requirements

• Minimum of 8 years in infrastructure or cloud engineering, including over 5 years focused on designing and delivering solutions on AWS.

• Demonstrated success in leading at least two large-scale cloud migration projects from start to finish.

• Hands-on experience in database migration involving MSSQL Server, Oracle, or PostgreSQL.

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional certification is required.

• Comprehensive understanding of core AWS services, such as 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; experience with Terraform is preferred, and familiarity with CloudFormation, AWS CDK, or Ansible is also acceptable.

• Practical experience in building and managing CI/CD pipelines using tools like GitHub Actions, GitLab, Bitbucket, or similar.

• Experience with running containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes or EKS.

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

• Strong security knowledge encompassing IAM, least privilege, access control, endpoint security, and data encryption.

• Exceptional problem-solving and communication abilities.

• Ability to work effectively in a distributed team, with several hours of daily overlap with Central European Time.

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

• Preferred qualifications include AWS MAP experience, migrations from VMware/on-premises data centers/Azure/GCP, AWS Transform, and AWS Specialty certifications.

🏝️ Benefits

• Remote contractor arrangement.

• Full-time work schedule.

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