Cloud Migration Architect – AWS

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

☁️ Cloud Engineer

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Strategic Communications

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 1994

🏢 Enterprise

🔒 Cybersecurity

🏛️ Government

Enterprise • Cybersecurity • Government

Strategic Communications is a Louisville, KY–headquartered Woman & Minority-Owned Small Business (WOSB & MBE) IT solutions integrator with roughly 30 years of experience helping public sector and enterprise customers modernize technology. The company provides a broad portfolio of services including cloud solutions, cybersecurity, digital transformation, collaboration and digital workplace tools, IT infrastructure, managed and professional services (including IT staffing and project management), and data & analytics. Strategic Communications operates specialized public-sector offerings (JPS TRUST for Justice & Public Safety), emphasizes compliance (CJIS, FedRAMP), and holds multiple government contract vehicles (Army CHESS, Sourcewell, NASPO). It partners with major vendors such as Cisco, AWS, Microsoft, Dell, Oracle, Crestron, Biamp, and Shure.

📋 Description

• Lead AWS MAP Assess and Mobilize engagements from discovery through executive and technical recommendations • Evaluate business goals, organizational readiness, application portfolios, infrastructure, dependencies, security, compliance, cost, licensing, and migration risk • Validate discovery data and recommend workload dispositions, migration groups, pilots, waves, and business-case inputs • Design secure, resilient, cost-conscious AWS and AWS GovCloud target architectures and landing zones • Define multi-account, identity, network, security, observability, backup, recovery, governance, automation, hybrid connectivity, and operating-model requirements • Produce architecture diagrams and decision records documenting alternatives, constraints, tradeoffs, assumptions, and risks • Create actionable roadmaps with workstreams, owners, milestones, dependencies, estimates, and acceptance criteria • Develop migration and modernization strategies, workload patterns, wave plans, testing, cutover, rollback, and validation approaches • Plan and support pilots validating architecture, connectivity, security, tooling, and operational assumptions • Produce implementation-ready handoff packages and guide delivery teams through designs, sequencing, risks, and acceptance requirements • Review estimates and implementation plans; serve as architecture authority for high-risk decisions and readiness reviews • Build or validate AWS proof-of-concept environments and infrastructure as code • Test account structures, identity, connectivity, DNS, security, logging, monitoring, backup, recovery, and migration tooling • Troubleshoot complex design and migration-planning issues, review partner work, and create reusable patterns and standards • Qualify MAP opportunities and define proposal and statement-of-work scope, assumptions, staffing, schedules, deliverables, and acceptance criteria • Coordinate with customers, AWS, distributors, and specialist partners while maintaining accurate, auditable program documentation • Build repeatable methods, templates, architecture patterns, quality standards, and handoff procedures • Peer-review delivery artifacts, preserve evidence and decisions, ensure partner transparency and knowledge transfer, and mentor internal engineers

🎯 Requirements

• Active AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional certification • Eight or more years in infrastructure or cloud architecture, systems engineering, application migration, professional services, or related technical delivery, including five or more recent years of hands-on AWS experience • Proven leadership of AWS MAP Assess engagements and the architecture and planning portions of MAP Mobilize engagements • Experience producing portfolio assessments, business-case inputs, target architectures, migration strategies, wave plans, roadmaps, and implementation-ready handoffs • Hands-on production migration and pilot experience, including landing zones, multi-account environments, identity, hybrid networking, security, observability, backup, recovery, governance, migration tools, and infrastructure as code • Strong knowledge of Windows, Linux, VMware, networking, storage, identity, relational databases, backup, monitoring, and hybrid-cloud integration • Ability to lead executive and technical workshops and produce clear diagrams, plans, estimates, decisions, and recommendations • Strong technical writing, analysis, presentation, facilitation, troubleshooting, estimation, and risk-communication skills • Ability to travel as required • U.S. citizenship • Ability to meet applicable public-sector background, public-trust, or clearance requirements • Preferred: Additional AWS Professional or Specialty certifications and experience with MAP Migrate/Modernize • Preferred: AWS GovCloud and public-sector or regulated-industry experience, including NIST, FedRAMP, FISMA, StateRAMP, CJIS, HIPAA, or PCI DSS • Preferred: Experience with major enterprise platforms, AWS migration and governance services, dependency mapping, cloud economics, licensing, FinOps, and total cost of ownership • Preferred: Consulting, professional-services, customer-facing architecture, senior presales, reusable delivery methods, or partner-led team experience • Background check and drug testing

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life, long- and short-term disability insurance • 401(k) • Paid vacation, sick days, and holidays • Dog-friendly corporate office • Wellness incentives • Referral bonuses