AWS Cloud Architect

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☕ Washington – Remote

☕ Washington – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

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☁️ Cloud Engineer

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SnapSoft

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2016

☁️ SaaS

SaaS • Cloud Computing • Software Development

SnapSoft is a technology company specializing in custom software application development, cloud migration, AI/ML and analytics, cloud security, and DevOps solutions. As a Certified AWS partner, SnapSoft excels in planning and managing cloud-based projects, including data analytics, e-commerce logistics, and system migrations to AWS platforms. The company helps businesses enhance their technological capabilities with cutting-edge tools and agile delivery processes, offering scalable, secure, and innovative solutions that empower companies to adapt swiftly to market changes.

📋 Description

• Lead technical delivery of complex, high-impact AWS migration and modernization engagements, including AWS Migration Acceleration Program assessments and mobilization • Lead technical discovery and design multi-service, cloud-native AWS architectures • 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 client scope conversations • Represent SnapSoft in client sessions, including executive-level conversations and joint sessions with AWS stakeholders • Spend around 25% of time on pre-sales, including discovery, solution design and co-selling with AWS account teams in North America • Review technical content of SOWs and project contracts and ensure proposed scope is deliverable • 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 • Coach engineers and share knowledge through internal sessions, workshops, whitepapers and technical evangelism • Serve as a go-to expert in one or more domains such as MSSQL Server, PostgreSQL, EKS, VMware, data, security or networking • Help shape technical offerings and accelerators in line with market and AWS trends • Stay current with AWS innovations and contribute to SnapSoft's AWS Competency and partner programs • Report to an Engineering Manager based in Europe and lead distributed teams of US- and Budapest-based engineers • Collaborate with colleagues in AI/ML and Application Development practices

🎯 Requirements

• 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 EC2, Lambda, ECS, EKS, S3, RDS, EFS, EBS, VPC, API Gateway, CloudFront, SNS, SQS, IAM, Security Hub, GuardDuty, KMS, AWS Private CA, CloudWatch and AWS Application Migration Service • Strong Infrastructure as Code skills; Terraform preferred, with CloudFormation, AWS CDK or Ansible 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, VPN, 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 • Confidence working with executives and engineering teams • 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 • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional is a plus • Hands-on experience with AWS MAP phases is nice to have • Experience with migrations from VMware, on-premises data centers, Azure or GCP is nice to have • Experience with AI-assisted migration and modernization tooling, such as AWS Transform, is nice to have • AWS Specialty certifications are nice to have

🏖️ Benefits

• A company culture based on autonomy and accountability • Fully remote position anywhere in the United States • Flexible working hours with collaboration across US and European teams • High visibility across executive leadership with real influence on how our US delivery organization evolves • Work on innovative AWS Cloud Migration projects for fast-growing startups and enterprise customers • Occasional business travel for strategic customer engagements

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