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Senior AWS Cloud Architect – VMware Migration & AI Automation

ICONMA

Role overview

Qualifications

  • AWS Discovery
  • VMWare Migration
  • Landing Zone
  • Terraform

Responsibilities

  • Lead the end-to-end migration of VMware-based datacenter workloads to AWS using AI-driven migration solutions.
  • Define cloud architecture, migration strategy, and governance standards.
  • Lead infrastructure and application discovery and assess migration readiness.
  • Provide technical leadership for VMware workload migration using AWS MGN and oversee modernization initiatives.

Key facts

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Leadership
  • Collaboration
  • Mentorship

About the company

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ICONMA

Management Consulting

We provide Professional Staffing Services & Project-Based Solutions for a broad range of Fortune 500 organizations. ICONMA is a certified Woman-Owned staffing company and was founded in 2000. ICONMA’s corporate headquarters is in Troy, Michigan, and has 15+ locations worldwide. What makes ICONMA stand out in a fiercely competitive industry? *We provide integrated, full lifecycle services across a broad range of business and technical platforms. *No single company can duplicate our full range of staffing and permanent recruiting services nationwide. *Proven track record of attracting and retaining exceedingly skilled professional workers in a highly competitive market. SERVICES OFFERED Staff Augmentation (Contract, Contract to Hire, Direct Hire, Single Source) Data Analysis Project-Based Services & Solutions Hire Train Deploy Service Model Offshore Staff Augmentation Payroll Services AREAS OF EXPERTISE - Information Technology - Engineering - Business Professional - Accounting/Finance - Admin/Clerical/Call Center - Healthcare/Clinical/Scientific - Marketing/Creative mail linkedin@iconma.com Phone (888) 451-2519 Website http://www.iconma.com

Company details

Company typeLarge
IndustryManagement Consulting
Company size1001 - 5000

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Job description

Our Client, an IT Services and Consultant company, is looking for a Senior AWS Cloud Architect – VMware Migration & AI Automation for their Charlotte, NC/Remote location.
 
Responsibilities:
  • 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 while providing leadership to architects, engineers, and stakeholders throughout the transformation program.
  • 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 assessment 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 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.
 
Requirements:
  • AWS Discovery, Assessment, VMWare Migration, Landing Zone, Terraform, Matilda Discovery, Jenkins, AWS Bedrock, Claude LLM (Good To Have)
  • Years of Experience: 19.00 Years of Experience
 
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