C2C- Cloud Infrastructure Architect – AWS Migrations & Platform Modernization & telecom-Seattle/Bellevue, WA / Atlanta, GA (Hybrid, locals only)

[Yashasvi Hasija]

Hi,
Hope you’re doing well.

My name is Yashasvi, and I am a Technical Recruiter from Empower
Professionals Inc. We are sourcing for a Cloud Infrastructure Architect
– AWS Migrations & Platform Modernization role located at
Seattle/Bellevue, WA / Atlanta, GA (Hybrid, locals only) and it’s a
long-term contract with possible extensions.



If you have any suitable profiles, please share their updated resumes
with the candidate’s location, work authorization and expected rate so
that we can proceed.



Hybrid and Locals only – Telecom is must



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

Technical Recruiter | Empower Professionals

......................................................................................................................................

Yash...@empowerprofessionals.com |

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/yashasvi-hasija-6a745625b

100 Franklin Square Drive – Suite 104 | Somerset, NJ 08873

www.empowerprofessionals.com

Certified NJ and NY Minority Business Enterprise (NMSDC)

Empower Professionals firmly opposes e-mail "spamming". We apologize to
those who do not wish to receive this e-mail and also to those who have
accidentally received it again. Please reply with “REMOVE” in the
subject listing, with all aliases email addresses that you would want
removed and any inconvenience caused is highly regretted. We appreciate
your patience and cooperation. This e-mail and any files transmitted
with it are for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may
contain confidential and privileged information. If you are not the
intended recipient(s), please reply to the sender and destroy all copies
of the original message. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure,
dissemination, forwarding, printing or copying of this email, and/or any
action taken in reliance on the contents of this e-mail is strictly
prohibited and may be unlawful.
To subscribe or unsubscribe: https://send.empowerprofessionals.com/newsletter/subscribe/647186e8-bcb0-4f73-8f80-cb3daff9ad90