AWS Cloud Architect (US/LATAM)
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Description
- Technical delivery of complex, high-impact migration and modernization engagements
- AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) assessments and mobilization
- Technical discovery and design of multi-service, cloud-native AWS architectures
- Technical leadership of teams of 1–4 engineers
- Management of the technical roadmap of 2–3 engagements in parallel
- Ownership of technical design decisions within project scope
- Resolution of technical disagreements and scope conversations with clients
- Representation of SnapSoft in client sessions including executive-level conversations and joint sessions with AWS stakeholders
- Pre-sales activities including discovery, solution design and co-selling with AWS account teams
- Review of technical content of SOWs and project contracts
- Resolution of high-risk technical blockers and escalations including critical production incidents
- Adaptation to changing delivery expectations and keeping engagements on track under uncertainty
- Building architectural guardrails, reusable frameworks and components
- Coaching engineers and sharing knowledge through internal sessions, workshops, whitepapers and technical evangelism
- Expertise in one or more domains such as MSSQL Server, PostgreSQL, EKS, VMware, data, security or networking
- Shaping technical offerings and accelerators in line with market and AWS trends
- Staying current with AWS innovations and contributing to SnapSoft's AWS Competency and partner programs
- 10+ years in infrastructure or cloud engineering including 5+ years designing and delivering on AWS
- 5 years of experience in an architect role
- 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
- In-depth knowledge of core AWS services including Compute and containers EC2, Lambda, ECS, EKS
- In-depth knowledge of core AWS services including Storage and databases S3, RDS, EFS, EBS
- In-depth knowledge of core AWS services including Networking and integration VPC, API Gateway, CloudFront, SNS, SQS
- In-depth knowledge of core AWS services including Security IAM, Security Hub, GuardDuty, KMS, AWS Private CA
- In-depth knowledge of core AWS services including Operations and migration CloudWatch, AWS Application Migration Service
- Strong Infrastructure as Code skills with Terraform preferred
- 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 including TCP/IP, DNS, load balancers, firewalls and VPN plus AWS networking services such as VPC, Route 53, ELB and CloudFront
- Strong security knowledge including IAM, least privilege, access control, endpoint security and data encryption
- Excellent problem-solving and communication skills
- Comfort working in a distributed team with daily overlap with Central European Time
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT or a related field or equivalent experience
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
- 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
- Company culture based on autonomy and accountability
- Fully remote position anywhere in the United States or Latin America (Argentina, Brazil)
- Flexible working hours with collaboration across US and European teams
- High visibility across executive leadership with real influence on US delivery organization evolution
- Work on innovative AWS Cloud Migration projects for fast-growing startups and enterprise customers
- Occasional business travel for strategic customer engagements
Skills
- AI
- API
- API Gateway
- AWS
- Azure
- Bitbucket
- CI/CD
- Cloud
- Cloud Native
- CloudFront
- CloudWatch
- DNS
- Docker
- EC2
- ECS
- EKS
- Firewall
- GCP
- GitHub
- GitHub Actions
- GitLab
- IAM
- Infrastructure as Code
- Kubernetes
- Lambda
- Networking
- Oracle
- PostgreSQL
- Pre-sales
- RDS
- S3
- SNS
- Solution Design
- SQL Server
- SQS
- TCP/IP
- Technical Discovery
- Technical Evangelism
- Terraform
- VMware
- VPC
- VPN