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. Final Details 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 RMTU5LjE5OC4zMi42Nw== when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMTU5LjE5OC4zMi42Nw==). 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.