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Senior AWS Cloud Architect – VMware Migration & AI Automation
ICONMA, LLC
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Remote
- Senior
- 4 days ago
- AWS Cloud
- VMware
- AI
- AWS
- EC2
- ECS
- EKS
- API Gateway
- Claude
- Windows
- Linux
- IaC
- Terraform
- CI/CD
- Configuration Management
- Risk Management
- Network Security
- Jenkins
- AWS Bedrock
4 days ago
Responsibilities:
- Lead the end-to-end migration of VMware-based datacenter workloads to AWS using Agentic AI-driven migration solutions.
- Define cloud architecture, migration strategy, governance standards, and technical execution while providing leadership to architects, engineers, and stakeholders throughout the transformation program.
- Discovery & Assessment
- Lead infrastructure and application discovery using tools such as Matilda, AWS Discovery, Device42, or similar platforms.
- Assess servers, applications, databases, storage, and network dependencies for AWS migration readiness.
- Analyze infrastructure inventory, utilization, business criticality, risks, and remediation requirements.
- Perform migration strategy assessment using the AWS 6R framework (Rehost, Replatform, Refactor, Re-Architect, Retire, Retain).
- AWS Architecture & Migration Strategy
- Define target AWS landing zone architecture aligned with enterprise security, networking, and governance standards.
- Develop migration roadmaps, migration waves, sizing recommendations, and cost models.
- Design AWS infrastructure solutions leveraging services such as EC2, ECS/EKS, FSx, EFS, Route 53, Transit Gateway, PrivateLink, API Gateway, and Lambda.
- Ensure architecture decisions support scalability, resiliency, security, and operational excellence.
- Agentic AI-Driven Migration Enablement
- Lead migration execution using Agentic AI platforms powered by Claude and AWS AI services.
- Design and implement AI agents, skills, workflows, and automation tools to accelerate migration activities.
- Utilize AI-driven dependency analysis and business prioritization to optimize migration wave planning.
- Drive automated migration validation, testing, cutover, and post-migration verification activities.
- Migration Execution & Modernization
- Provide technical leadership for VMware workload migration using AWS MGN and related migration services.
- Lead modernization initiatives including containerization and migration to ECS or EKS where appropriate.
- Oversee Windows and Linux upgrades, security hardening, patching, and compliance remediation for migrated workloads.
- Resolve complex migration challenges and ensure successful workload transition to AWS.
- Cloud Engineering Standards
- Define and enforce Infrastructure as Code (IaC) standards using Terraform.
- Establish cloud architecture patterns, reusable modules, migration standards, and deployment best practices.
- Integrate CI/CD, automation, and configuration management tools to support cloud operations.
- Governance & Leadership
- Act as trusted advisor to client executives, technical leadership, and Architecture Review Boards.
- Lead architecture governance, technical reviews, risk management, and migration decision-making.
- Collaborate with application, infrastructure, network, security, and business stakeholders.
- Mentor architects and engineering teams across cloud, network, security, and platform domains.
Requirements:
- AWS Discovery, Assessment, VMWare Migration, Landing Zone, Terraform, Matilda Discovery, Jenkins, AWS Bedrock, Claude LLM (Good To Have)
- Years of Experience:19.00 Years of Experience
Why Should You Apply?
- Health Benefits
- Referral Program
- Excellent growth and advancement opportunities
Senior AWS Cloud Architect – VMware Migration & AI Automation · ICONMA, LLC