AWS Cloud Architect

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Job Title: AWS Cloud Architect
Location: New York, NY (Hybrid: 3 days onsite/2 days remote)
Duration: 12 Months (with potential for extension)
Start Date: estimated August 12, 2026
Hourly Rate: W2 $60-$70/hour
Application Deadline: July 29, 2026

Overview:

We are seeking an AWS Cloud Architect who will support our NYC client.
This senior-level role will define scalable, resilient, secure, and cost-efficient AWS cloud architectures while establishing enterprise cloud frameworks, standards, governance models, policies, and implementation playbooks. The architect will partner with business and technology teams to assess requirements, design multi-cloud and hybrid solutions, guide engineering teams, and support cloud adoption, migration, automation, security, networking, performance, and cost-management initiatives.

Duties:

• Develop scalable, resilient, secure, and cost-efficient AWS cloud architectures aligned with organizational goals and cybersecurity policies.
• Engage business users and technology teams to assess requirements and translate them into implementable multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud solution architectures.
• Define and maintain cloud architecture frameworks, governance models, policies, technical standards, reference patterns, and implementation playbooks.
• Evaluate application readiness for cloud adoption and develop detailed migration strategies, roadmaps, and on-premises-to-cloud integration approaches.
• Produce comprehensive architecture documentation and Microsoft Visio diagrams for cloud platforms, networking, security, integrations, and migration solutions.
• Design and govern multi-account AWS Organizations and support multi-subscription Azure tenant architectures.
• Architect solutions using AWS compute, storage, analytics, database, serverless, container, networking, monitoring, backup, and disaster-recovery services.
• Support Azure architecture efforts involving compute, storage, analytics, databases, serverless services, containers, networking, security, and monitoring.
• Guide engineering teams and augment cloud engineering activities involving AWS CloudShell, Azure Cloud Shell, PowerShell, CLI tools, and infrastructure automation.
• Advance Infrastructure-as-Code practices using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Azure ARM, or Pulumi and support CI/CD automation through GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, or AWS CodePipeline.
• Automate configuration management using Ansible, Chef, or Puppet.
• Implement cloud security controls and zero-trust practices using IAM, RBAC, WAF, Security Groups, NACLs, CloudTrail, GuardDuty, Secrets Manager, Azure Defender for Cloud, Key Vault, encryption, and monitoring.
• Design hybrid network connectivity using VPCs, vNets, hub-and-spoke models, Transit Gateway, peering, load balancers, VPNs, Direct Connect, and ExpressRoute.
• Implement disaster recovery and backup strategies that meet regulatory compliance and defined RTO/RPO requirements.
• Optimize cloud costs and performance using AWS Cost Explorer, Cost and Usage Reports, Savings Plans, Azure Advisor, reservations, CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, and FinOps practices.
• Troubleshoot cloud infrastructure, networking, availability, performance, and service issues using cloud-native logging, monitoring, tracing, and flow-analysis tools.
• Collaborate with Network, Server, DevOps, Cybersecurity, Finance, and Procurement teams and communicate complex technical concepts in business-friendly language.
• Participate in cloud strategy planning, architecture reviews, technical discussions, and enterprise technology decision-making.

Mandatory Qualifications:

• 6+ years of hands-on AWS cloud architecture experience, including deep knowledge of AWS platforms, services, architecture frameworks, governance, standards, and policies.
• 2+ years of experience with Microsoft Azure cloud architecture and services.
• 4+ years of experience designing hybrid on-premises/cloud and multi-clo…