What are the responsibilities and job description for the Cloud Architect-AWS position at HMG America?
HMG America LLC is the best Business Solutions focused Information Technology Company with IT consulting and services, software and web development, staff augmentation and other professional services. One of our direct clients is looking for Cloud Architect-AWS in Lake land, Florida. Below is the detailed job description.
Role: Cloud Architect-AWS
Location: Lake land, Florida
Mode of work: Hybrid
Note: Need very strong Cloud Migration experience :- VMware to AWS migration.
Key Need:
- AWS Migration strategies.
- AWS Transform.
- AWS Direct Connect.
- Site-to-Site VPN.
- VPC, Transit Gateway.
- Landing Zone.
- Application Migration Service (MGN).
- DMS (Database Migration Service).
- Account factory, OUs, IAM, ALB, Security Hub, SCP.
- Database Migration.
- DB Replications.
- Backup and restore.
- Disaster Recovery Implementation.
- License Handling methods.
- CICD.
- Monitoring Areas.
- Terraform.
- To have complete knowledge on 'Data Center to AWS cloud migration' of VMs.
Lead end-to-end AWS infrastructure architecture, design, deployment, governance, security, and operational excellence initiatives for cloud migration and modernization programs.
Key Responsibilities: -
- Lead end-to-end AWS infrastructure design and deployment for new cloud platforms and workloads.
- Design and implement robust DevOps pipelines using AWS Code Pipeline, Code Build, Code Deploy, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or equivalent.
- Implement Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or AWS CDK to ensure repeatable and auditable deployments.
- Define and enforce cloud security controls including IAM, IAM Identity Center (AWS SSO), AWS Organizations SCPs, KMS encryption, Guard Duty, Security Hub, and Amazon Inspector.
- Establish cloud governance using AWS Organizations, Control Tower, Service Control Policies (SCPs), tagging frameworks, budget controls, and compliance standards.
- Coordinate with security teams for identity integration, network segmentation, secrets management, encryption, logging, and audit requirements.
- Architect resilient AWS networking solutions using VPCs, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, VPN, Route 53, Elastic Load Balancers, and hybrid connectivity models.
- Implement observability platforms using Amazon CloudWatch, AWS X-Ray, OpenSearch, PrometheGrafana integrations, and SIEM integrations.
- Define backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity solutions using AWS Backup, cross-region replication, and AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery.
- Conduct architecture reviews, publish design documentation, runbooks, operational procedures, and mentor engineering teams.
- Collaborate with application, security, networking, and compliance teams to ensure secure-by-design deployments.
- Drive automation, standardization, cost optimization, and continuous service improvements.