Cloud Migration Architect (AWS) @ Digital Technology Solutions

Salary: $68,000 - 108,000 per year

Requirements:

• We need 5-6+ years of hands-on experience building and running production workloads on AWS, with strong expertise in Elastic Beanstalk, EKS, EC2, RDS, VPC, IAM, S3, CloudWatch, and Secrets Manager.
• We need 3+ years of practical Kubernetes experience, ideally in production EKS, including Helm, kubectl, ingress controllers such as ALB or NGINX, HPA, and troubleshooting pods, services, and networking.
• We require production experience with ArgoCD or Flux, including app-of-apps design, multi-environment promotion, and resolving GitOps drift.
• We need strong Azure DevOps Pipelines experience using YAML for builds, multi-stage releases, variable groups, service connections, and hosted or self-hosted agents; strong experience with another major CI/CD tool is also acceptable if Azure DevOps can be learned quickly.
• We need solid Docker expertise, including multi-stage image builds, image hardening, and publishing to ECR.
• We require production-level infrastructure-as-code experience with Terraform preferred, or CloudFormation/CDK.
• We need database familiarity and the ability to work closely with DBA teams on RDS for SQL Server and PostgreSQL, connection strings, secret rotation, and migration cutovers.
• We require Linux administration skills across RHEL, Amazon Linux, or Ubuntu, along with bash scripting.
• We need strong Git knowledge, including branching strategies, pull request workflows, and disciplined code review practices.
• We require excellent written communication skills to produce runbooks, architecture diagrams, and clear pull request documentation.
• AWS certifications such as Solutions Architect Professional or DevOps Engineer Professional are preferred.
• CKA or CKAD certification is preferred.
• Experience migrating .NET and Java applications from on-premises environments to AWS is preferred.
• Experience with containerized COTS products is preferred.
• Familiarity with service mesh technologies such as Istio or App Mesh, or with API gateways, is preferred.
• Exposure to HashiCorp Vault, certificate management, and secret rotation is preferred.
• Familiarity with observability tools such as DataDog, New Relic, or Splunk, in addition to native AWS monitoring, is preferred.
• Experience with blue/green and canary deployment strategies is preferred.

Responsibilities:

• We will lead AWS platform configuration and CI/CD automation for a large-scale enterprise cloud migration program.
• We will configure and fine-tune Elastic Beanstalk environments across Dev, Test, and Prod, including platform versions, scaling policies, environment variables, and rolling deployments.
• We will design, provision, and operate Amazon EKS clusters for containerized workloads, including node groups, cluster autoscaling, ingress, and namespace strategy.
• We will provision and secure EC2 or cloud VM environments, including AMI selection, instance sizing, operating system setup, and patching strategy.
• We will partner with the DBA team to set up Amazon RDS for SQL Server and PostgreSQL, including parameter groups, subnet groups, backups, and Multi-AZ design.
• We will design VPC networking, security groups, IAM roles and policies, KMS keys, and Secrets Manager integration using least-privilege principles.
• We will build reproducible infrastructure as code so every environment is auditable and consistent.
• We will design and implement Azure DevOps build and release pipelines for multiple migration patterns, including Elastic Beanstalk, EKS, EC2, and in-place upgrade workflows.
• We will implement GitOps for EKS workloads using ArgoCD or Flux, including pull-based deployment, drift detection, and multi-environment promotion patterns.
• We will establish promotion controls from Dev to Test to Prod, including approvals, gates, and rollback paths.
• We will standardize reusable pipeline templates so application teams can onboard services consistently.
• We will integrate security and quality checks such as static analysis, container scanning, SAST/DAST hooks, and artifact provenance.
• We will configure CloudWatch logs, metrics, alarms, and dashboards for each workload.
• We will define SLOs, alert thresholds, and incident response runbooks for production cutovers.
• We will create architecture decision records, runbooks, and operational procedures for long-term support.
• We will maintain a clean, version-controlled IaC repository as the source of truth.
• We will collaborate daily with application teams, the AWS Infrastructure Team, the DBA Team, and technical leads.
• We will pair with developers to troubleshoot cloud issues such as cold starts, container OOMs, RDS connectivity problems, and IAM denials.
• We will mentor application developers and administrators on cloud-native practices.

Technologies:

• API
• AWS
• Architect
• ArgoCD
• Azure
• Bash
• Beanstalk
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• CloudWatch
• Datadog
• DevOps
• Docker
• EC2
• Git
• GitOps
• Helm
• IAM
• Istio
• Support
• Java
• Kubernetes
• Linux
• Nginx
• PostgreSQL
• RHEL
• SQL
• Security
• Splunk
• Terraform
• Ubuntu
• ASP.NET
• NodeJS
• GitHub
• GitLab
• Jenkins

More:

We are seeking a Senior Cloud Migration Architect to join our development team and drive AWS platform configuration and CI/CD automation for a large enterprise migration program spanning more than 30 applications. This is a highly hands-on technical role supporting migration patterns across Elastic Beanstalk, Amazon EKS, EC2, and cloud VM environments, with sprint-by-sprint delivery of production-ready environments. We offer an excellent compensation package and the opportunity to work closely with application teams, our AWS Infrastructure Team, and our DBA team in Lansing, MI, while building scalable cloud foundations, GitOps-driven delivery pipelines, and durable operational documentation for long-term support.

last updated 24 week of 2026