Dice is the leading career destination for tech experts at every stage of their careers. Our client, Empower Professionals, is seeking the following. Apply via Dice today! **Role: Cloud Infrastructure Architect – AWS Migrations & Platform Modernization** **Location: Seattle/Bellevue, WA / Atlanta, GA (Hybrid, locals only)** **Duration: 12+ Months** **Must have:** 7 Yrs of Exp – Cloud Infrastructure Architect 7 Yrs of Exp – AWS, Devops 5 Yrs of Exp in Telecom Domain **Position Overview:** We are seeking a highly skilled Cloud Infrastructure Architect with deep expertise in designing, planning, and executing large-scale migrations to AWS. The ideal candidate has led complex On-Prem → AWS migrations and intra-AWS migrations, including moving workloads from shared-tenant environments to AWS Dedicated Hosts. This role requires strong architecture leadership, hands-on technical proficiency, and the ability to support large-scale Kubernetes platforms and enterprise AWS workloads while ensuring security, scalability, and operational excellence. **Requirements:** 8+ years of experience in Cloud Architecture, Infrastructure Engineering, or Platform Engineering. 5+ years of advanced AWS experience across EC2, VPC, IAM, EKS, RDS, Route53, S3, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Config, and related services. Proven experience leading large-scale AWS migrations, including On-Prem → AWS and shared-tenant → Dedicated Host transitions. Deep hands-on expertise with AWS Dedicated Hosts, tenancy management, licensing considerations, and infrastructure lifecycle planning. Strong proficiency with Kubernetes, Terraform, cloud networking, and infrastructure automation. Excellent understanding of multi-account governance, security controls, and workload isolation. Strong communication and architectural leadership skills. **Responsibilities:** Cloud Architecture & Design Architect end-to-end infrastructure solutions leveraging AWS Well-Architected Framework and enterprise design patterns. Design scalable, secure multi-account landing zones, VPC architectures, enterprise networking, and workload isolation strategies. Provide architecture leadership for containerized platforms, including Amazon EKS and large-scale self-managed Kubernetes clusters. **Migration Leadership** Lead complex On-Prem → AWS and intra-AWS migrations involving VPC redesigns, account realignments, multi-region moves, and host architecture changes. Drive migrations from shared-tenant EC2/EKS deployments to AWS Dedicated Hosts, ensuring compliance, performance, and workload isolation. Conduct infrastructure assessments, migration strategies (rehost, replatform, refactor), and detailed cutover planning. **AWS Dedicated Host Expertise** Design and manage workloads running on AWS Dedicated Hosts, including host allocation, tenancy planning, compliance alignment, and lifecycle management. Optimize compute planning, licensing models, capacity strategies, and high-availability architectures using Dedicated Hosts. Ensure secure and compliant hosting for sensitive workloads requiring physical isolation and regulatory controls. **Kubernetes & Platform Engineering** Architect and manage large, multi-cluster Kubernetes environments with enterprise-grade reliability and security. Define compute and scaling strategies using EC2, EKS, Bottlerocket, autoscaling groups, and Dedicated Hosts–backed node groups. Implement service mesh, workload identity, observability architectures, and cluster lifecycle automation. **Governance, Security & Compliance** Develop and enforce IAM architectures, guardrails, cloud governance, and security policies aligned with CIS, NIST, and organizational standards. Partner with Security and Compliance teams to implement hardening, encryption, network segmentation, and threat detection. **Operational Excellence** Lead performance tuning, capacity planning, resiliency engineering, and availability design for large-scale AWS workloads. Define operational playbooks for deployments, monitoring, backups, DR/HA, and workload lifecycle management. Mentor engineering teams on AWS architecture patterns, DevOps practices, and migration execution. **Cross-Functional Leadership** Serve as a trusted advisor to engineering, SRE, product, and executive leadership. Partner with AWS teams and vendors to drive best practices and architectural decisions. Communicate complex solutions clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences. **Thanks** **Yashasvi Hasija** **Senior Technical Recruiter | Empower Professionals** **|** Phone: x 368 **|** Fax: LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/yashasvi-hasija-6a745625b 100 Franklin Square Drive – Suite 104 **|** Somerset, NJ 08873 Certified NJ and NY Minority Business Enterprise (NMSDC)