AWS Cloud Architect (US)

SnapSoft Kft. • Seattle, WA

1d • Remote

About The Position

SnapSoft is hiring a senior AWS Cloud Solutions Architect to lead the technical delivery of complex cloud migration and modernization engagements for clients across North America. The role covers engagements from assessment and mobilization through large-scale migration and modernization, including AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) work. The architect will lead distributed teams of US- and Budapest-based engineers and collaborate with colleagues in AI/ML and Application Development. The role reports to an Engineering Manager based in Europe.

Around 80% of the role is focused on project delivery and reviewing SOWs and project contracts, with the remainder spent on practice and operational work. Approximately 25% of the role involves pre-sales activities, including discovery, solution design, and co-selling with AWS account teams in North America. The position is remote anywhere in the United States and requires a few hours of daily overlap with Central European Time and North American client hours. Occasional business travel for strategic customer engagements is expected.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in infrastructure or cloud engineering, including 5+ years designing and delivering on AWS.
• 5 years of experience in an architect role.
• A proven track record of leading at least two large-scale cloud migrations end to end.
• Hands-on database migration experience with MSSQL Server, Oracle, or PostgreSQL.
• In-depth knowledge of core AWS services, including EC2, Lambda, ECS, EKS, S3, RDS, EFS, EBS, VPC, API Gateway, CloudFront, SNS, SQS, IAM, Security Hub, GuardDuty, KMS, AWS Private CA, CloudWatch, and AWS Application Migration Service.
• Strong Infrastructure as Code skills.
• Hands-on experience building and running CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, GitLab, Bitbucket, or similar.
• Experience running containerized workloads with Docker and Kubernetes or EKS.
• Strong networking knowledge, including TCP/IP, DNS, load balancers, firewalls, VPN, VPC, Route 53, ELB, and CloudFront.
• Strong security knowledge, including IAM, least privilege, access control, endpoint security, and data encryption.
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills, with confidence communicating with executives and engineering teams.
• Comfort working in a distributed team and overlapping daily with Central European Time.
• A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

Nice To Haves

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional.
• Hands-on experience with AWS MAP phases: Assess, Mobilize, and Migrate & Modernize.
• Experience migrating from VMware, on-premises data centers, Azure, or GCP.
• Experience with AI-assisted migration and modernization tooling, such as AWS Transform.
• AWS Specialty certifications, such as Security or Advanced Networking.
• Terraform experience; CloudFormation, AWS CDK, or Ansible are also welcome.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical delivery for complex, high-impact migration and modernization engagements, including AWS MAP assessments and mobilization.
• Lead technical discovery and design multi-service, cloud-native AWS architectures that translate business goals into scalable blueprints.
• Technically lead teams of 1–4 engineers and manage the technical roadmap for 2–3 engagements in parallel.
• Own technical design decisions within project scope, resolve technical disagreements, and handle scope conversations with clients.
• Represent SnapSoft in client sessions, including executive-level discussions and joint sessions with AWS stakeholders.
• Conduct pre-sales discovery and solution design and co-sell with AWS account teams in North America.
• Review technical content in SOWs and project contracts and ensure proposed scope is deliverable.
• Resolve high-risk technical blockers and escalations, including critical production incidents.
• Adapt to changing delivery expectations and keep engagements on track under uncertainty.
• Build architectural guardrails, reusable frameworks, and components to improve practice quality.
• Coach engineers and share knowledge through internal sessions, workshops, whitepapers, and technical evangelism.
• Serve as a go-to expert in one or more domains, such as MSSQL Server, PostgreSQL, EKS, VMware, data, security, or networking.
• Help shape technical offerings and accelerators in line with market and AWS trends.
• Stay current with AWS innovations and contribute to SnapSoft's AWS Competency and partner programs.

Benefits

• Company culture based on autonomy and accountability.
• Fully remote position anywhere in the United States.
• Flexible working hours with collaboration across US and European teams.
• High visibility across executive leadership and influence over the evolution of the US delivery organization.
• Work on innovative AWS Cloud Migration projects for fast-growing startups and enterprise customers.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior