[Hiring] Senior Cloud Architect @TekWissen

Role Description

Lead the end-to-end migration of VMware-based datacenter workloads to AWS using Agentic AI-driven migration solutions.

• Define cloud architecture, migration strategy, governance standards, and technical execution.
• Provide leadership to architects, engineers, and stakeholders throughout the transformation program.

Key Responsibilities

• Discovery & Assessment
  • Lead infrastructure and application discovery using tools such as Matilda, AWS Discovery, Device42, or similar platforms.
  • Assess servers, applications, databases, storage, and network dependencies for AWS migration readiness.
  • Analyze infrastructure inventory, utilization, business criticality, risks, and remediation requirements.
  • Perform migration strategy assessments using the AWS 6R framework (Rehost, Replatform, Refactor, Re-Architect, Retire, Retain).
• AWS Architecture & Migration Strategy
  • Define target AWS landing zone architecture aligned with enterprise security, networking, and governance standards.
  • Develop migration roadmaps, migration waves, sizing recommendations, and cost models.
  • Design AWS infrastructure solutions leveraging services such as EC2, ECS/EKS, FSx, EFS, Route 53, Transit Gateway, PrivateLink, API Gateway, and Lambda.
  • Ensure architecture decisions support scalability, resiliency, security, and operational excellence.
• Agentic AI-Driven Migration Enablement
  • Lead migration execution using Agentic AI platforms powered by Claude and AWS AI services.
  • Design and implement AI agents, skills, workflows, and automation tools to accelerate migration activities.
  • Utilize AI-driven dependency analysis and business prioritization to optimize migration wave planning.
  • Drive automated migration validation, testing, cutover, and post-migration verification activities.
• Migration Execution & Modernization
  • Provide technical leadership for VMware workload migration using AWS MGN and related migration services.
  • Lead modernization initiatives including containerization and migration to ECS or EKS where appropriate.
  • Oversee Windows and Linux upgrades, security hardening, patching, and compliance remediation for migrated workloads.
  • Resolve complex migration challenges and ensure successful workload transition to AWS.
• Cloud Engineering Standards
  • Define and enforce Infrastructure as Code (IaC) standards using Terraform.
  • Establish cloud architecture patterns, reusable modules, migration standards, and deployment best practices.
  • Integrate CI/CD, automation, and configuration management tools to support cloud operations.
• Governance & Leadership
  • Act as a trusted advisor to client executives, technical leadership, and Architecture Review Boards.
  • Lead architecture governance, technical reviews, risk management, and migration decision-making.
  • Collaborate with application, infrastructure, network, security, and business stakeholders.
  • Mentor architects and engineering teams across cloud, network, security, and platform domains.

Qualifications

• 19.00 Years of Experience.

Company Description

TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Our client is an American multinational information technology services and consulting company and is a leading provider of information technology, consulting, and business process outsourcing services, dedicated helping the world's leading companies build stronger businesses.