Principal AWS Cloud Architect
Megazone Cloud US1 month ago
Base Salary
$170k - $195k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the technical strategy, architecture decisions, delivery plan, and agreed target state for customer cloud engagements.
- Act as the primary technical contact for customer technical leadership and drive architecture, sequencing, and risk decisions.
- Design and deploy AWS foundational environments using Control Tower, Landing Zone Accelerator, Organizations, multi-account structures, SCPs, centralized logging, IAM, and Identity Center.
- Lead discovery, dependency mapping, right-sizing, migration-wave planning, rehost and replatform execution, and remediation for large-scale cloud migrations.
- Execute or oversee migrations involving EC2, RDS, ALB/NLB, CloudFront, Application Migration Service, DMS, DataSync, Storage Gateway, Snow Family, and hybrid connectivity.
- Write and review Terraform, AWS CDK, code, IaC, pipeline automation, design documents, runbooks, diagrams, decision records, and handover guides.
- Lead, coordinate, mentor, and quality-review onshore, offshore, partner, and vendor engineering teams across time zones.
- Partner with Engagement Managers and customers on project plans, milestones, dependencies, capacity, delivery offerings, reusable assets, and best practices.
Requirements
- 15+ years designing and operating infrastructure, including 5+ years in a lead or principal architect role on customer-facing engagements.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a similar field.
- Demonstrated hands-on experience building and operating production AWS systems and independently delivering projects as the sole architect.
- Experience leading and mentoring offshore or distributed engineering teams and coordinating with customer technical leadership.
- Hands-on experience with AWS foundational environments, Control Tower, Landing Zone Accelerator, AWS Organizations, and multi-account architecture.
- Experience with large-scale, multi-wave cloud migrations, including rehost and replatform strategies.
- Hands-on experience with AWS Application Migration Service, AWS Migration Hub, and VM Import/Export.
- Strong AWS networking experience covering VPC design, routing, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, VPN, and DNS.
- Experience with Terraform, AWS CDK, and at least one of Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
- Active AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional certification is required.
- An AWS Specialty certification such as Security, Advanced Networking, or Machine Learning is preferred.
- Experience with AWS Transform, including AWS Transform for VMware, is a significant plus.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to present to customer executives and engineering teams.
Benefits
- The company invests in employee growth and development.
- Servant leadership, a flat organization, and opportunities to directly shape the technical roadmap and client success are emphasized.
- The organization promotes a learning-oriented culture where mistakes are treated as learning opportunities.
- The employer is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify.
About Megazone Cloud US
Megazone Cloud US provides cloud and AI consulting, implementation, and managed services to enterprises adopting AWS and Google Cloud, along with data platforms like Databricks and Snowflake. The team delivers application modernization, cloud migrations, analytics, and contact center solutions, and helps productionize services such as Amazon Bedrock, SageMaker, and Google Vertex AI. Based in Fairport, New York, it operates as the U.S. arm of MegazoneCloud’s global organization serving clients across North America and Asia.