Dice is the leading career destination for tech experts at every stage of their careers. Our client, Amaze Systems Inc, is seeking the following. Apply via Dice today! **Job Title: AWS** **Cloud Infrastructure Architect AWS Migrations & Platform Modernization** **Location:** **Bellevue, WA** **Overland Park, Kansas, Atlanta, GA or Frisco, TX** **Note: Look for only local profiles for all 4 locations.** **Domain: Telecom Domain,** **Cloud Infrastructure Architect** , **AWS Migration,** **Platform Modernization,** **Job Description: Cloud Infrastructure Architect AWS Migrations & Platform Modernization** 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. Key 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. **Required Qualifications** - 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. **Preferred Qualifications** - AWS Solutions Architect Professional, DevOps Engineer Professional, or equivalent certifications. - Experience with large-scale Kubernetes operations, cluster bootstrap and upgrades, and production reliability. - Familiarity with service mesh (Istio, Linkerd, App Mesh), GitOps tools (ArgoCD, Flux), and cloud-native observability tools. - Experience designing resilient, cost-optimized, multi-region AWS architectures. 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