AWS Cloud Solutions Architect

As a Senior AWS Cloud Solutions Architect, you will be the technical lead on our most complex engagements, from assessment and mobilization to large-scale migration and modernization. You will report to an Engineering Manager based in Europe and lead distributed teams of US- and Budapest-based engineers. You will also work closely with colleagues in our AI/ML and Application Development practices. What you'll be doing: * Lead the technical delivery of complex, high-impact migration and modernization engagements, including AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) assessments and mobilization. * Lead technical discovery and design multi-service, cloud-native AWS architectures that turn business goals into scalable blueprints. * Technically lead teams of 1–4 engineers, and manage the technical roadmap of 2–3 engagements in parallel. * Own technical design decisions within project scope. Resolve technical disagreements and handle scope conversations with clients professionally. * Represent Client in customers sessions, including executive-level conversations and joint sessions with AWS stakeholders. * Spend around 25% of your time on pre-sales: discovery, solution design and co-selling with AWS account teams in North America. * Resolve high-risk technical blockers and escalations, including critical production incidents. * Adapt to changing delivery expectations and keep engagements on track under uncertainty. * Build architectural guardrails, reusable frameworks and components that raise quality across the practice. * Coach engineers and share knowledge through internal sessions, workshops, whitepapers and technical evangelism. * Be the go-to expert in one or more domains, such as MSSQL Server, PostgreSQL, EKS, VMware, data, security or networking. * Help shape our technical offerings and accelerators in line with market and AWS trends. What you bring: * 8+ years in infrastructure or cloud engineering, including 5+ years designing and delivering on AWS. * A proven track record of leading at least two large-scale cloud migrations end to end. * Hands-on database migration experience with MSSQL Server, Oracle or PostgreSQL. * AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional. * In-depth knowledge of core AWS services, including: * Compute and containers: EC2, Lambda, ECS, EKS * Storage and databases: S3, RDS, EFS, EBS * Networking and integration: VPC, API Gateway, CloudFront, SNS, SQS * Security: IAM, Security Hub, GuardDuty, KMS, AWS Private CA * Operations and migration: CloudWatch, AWS Application Migration Service * Strong Infrastructure as Code skills. Terraform is preferred; CloudFormation, AWS CDK or Ansible are also welcome. * Hands-on experience building and running CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, GitLab, Bitbucket or similar. * Experience running containerized workloads with Docker and Kubernetes or EKS. * Strong networking knowledge: TCP/IP, DNS, load balancers, firewalls and VPN, plus AWS networking services such as VPC, Route 53, ELB and CloudFront. * Strong security knowledge: IAM, least privilege, access control, endpoint security and data encryption. * Excellent problem-solving and communication skills. You are confident with executives and engineering teams alike. * Comfort 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: * Hands-on experience with AWS MAP phases: Assess, Mobilize, and Migrate & Modernize. * Migrations from VMware, on-premises data centers, Azure or GCP. * Experience with AI-assisted migration and modernization tooling, such as AWS Transform. * AWS Specialty certifications, such as Security or Advanced Networking. Remote Contractor USD Full Time ( US time zone with a few hours of overlap with CET ) Start date : ASAP Please mention the word **WONDER** and tag RMmEwMTo0Zjg6YzAxNTpjNjYxOjox when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMmEwMTo0Zjg6YzAxNTpjNjYxOjox). This is a beta feature to avoid spam applicants. Companies can search these words to find applicants that read this and see they're human. Location: Remote (probably - not specified)