Senior AWS Cloud Architect

Job Description: Senior AWS Cloud Architect

Location: Wichita, KS or Atlanta, GA (Hybrid)

Position Overview:

We are seeking an experienced and visionary Cloud Architect to spearhead our enterprise cloud transformation. In this role, you will design and execute our migration strategy from legacy on-premises infrastructure to Amazon Web Services (AWS). Beyond migration, you will establish robust cloud governance frameworks, define operational guardrails for our infrastructure teams, and architect scalable data solutions that fuel our business intelligence, analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI) initiatives.

Key Responsibilities:

· Cloud Migration & Modernization: Lead the architectural assessment, strategy, and execution of transitioning legacy, on-premises workloads to AWS. Utilize frameworks such as the AWS Well-Architected Framework to ensure secure, high-performing, resilient, and efficient infrastructure.

· Cloud Networking: Partner with network architect to design and implement cloud networking architecture. Set up VPC peering. Evaluate the need for, and implement, a Direct Connect with AWS.

· Cloud Governance & Guardrails: Design, implement, and maintain enterprise-wide cloud landing zone and governance policies. Define Identity and Access Management (IAM) strategies, security baselines, and resource lifecycle policies to guide the Systems Engineering and Operations teams in secure, standardized resource provisioning.

· Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Champion automation by establishing IaC standards and CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure deployment, ensuring the Systems Engineering team can safely and consistently manage cloud resources.

· Data & AI Architecture: Architect scalable, secure data platforms—including Data Lakes and Modern Data Warehouses—to aggregate diverse data streams. Ensure the underlying infrastructure optimized for high-performance data analytics, reporting pipelines, and advanced AI/ML modeling.

· Cost Optimization & Performance Tuning: Implement FinOps practices to monitor, analyze, and optimize cloud spend while ensuring optimal system performance and scalability.

Required Qualifications:

· Experience: 7 years in IT infrastructure/architecture, with at least 3 years specifically focused on AWS cloud architecture and large-scale migrations.

· AWS Expertise: Deep technical knowledge of core AWS services (EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, IAM, Route 53) and specialized data/analytics services (AWS Glue, Redshift, Athena, EMR, SageMaker, Amazon Bedrock).

· Automation & Provisioning: Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code tools (e.g., Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, AWS CDK) and configuration management.

· Governance Frameworks: Proven experience setting up AWS Organizations, AWS Control Tower, and Service Control Policies (SCPs) for enterprise compliance.

· Certifications: One or more of the following: AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional or Associate, AWS DevOps Engineer – Professional or Associate

Preferred Skills:

· Familiarity with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Amazon ECS/EKS).

· Strong understanding of data governance, data privacy regulations, and security compliance frameworks.

· Excellent collaboration skills to bridge the gap between technical operations teams and data science/analytics business units.

Qualifications:

Pratt is America’s 4th largest corrugated packaging company and the world’s largest, privately-held producer of 100% recycled containerboard, with more than 10,000   highly-skilled, green-collar employees dedicated to the environment and sustainability. Pratt was founded in the USA more than 30 years ago and, since then, has shown dramatic growth with sophisticated manufacturing facilities in more than 70 locations.