Sr. Solutions Architect, AWS (Migration, Modern Platform)

Presidio • ,

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About The Position

Presidio is seeking an AWS pre-sales Solutions Architect to join its Solutions Architecture team and work within an industry-specific vertical. The role combines hands-on solution architecture with people management, with a focus on strengthening team expertise, standardizing best practices, and delivering high-quality technical solutions tailored to client environments.

The architect supports customers through the sales cycle, from requirements gathering through handoff to delivery. The role includes developing client-facing proposals and other commercial deliverables, leading the scoping and execution of AWS migration engagements, designing secure and compliant cloud architectures, and establishing consistent approaches to solution design, deployment, and optimization. The position also owns the proposal approval lifecycle and coordinates reviews and stakeholder sign-offs.

Presidio describes itself as a technology services company providing expertise in AI and automation, security, networking, digital transformation, and cloud computing. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.

Requirements

• 7 or more years of relevant experience.
• 5 or more years of experience in solutions architecture, technical pre-sales, delivery, or similar customer-facing technical roles.
• 3 or more years of experience delivering and selling consulting and advisory services for strategic solutions such as IT strategy, application placement, and cloud governance.
• Deep expertise in AWS core services, including EC2, S3, VPC, RDS, Lambda, and EKS; strong working knowledge of EKS and ECS, Terraform and CloudFormation, and AWS Well-Architected principles.
• Exceptional communication and executive presence, with the ability to engage technical architects and C-suite stakeholders and translate AWS solutions into business value.
• Strong cloud migration and modernization background, including architecture for lift-and-shift, re-platform, and re-architect solutions across enterprise environments and industries.
• Solid understanding of DevOps, CI/CD, and modern AWS application architectures, including microservices, serverless, and event-driven patterns.
• Experience with solution design methodologies and technical best practices that promote team consistency and quality.
• Expert-level knowledge of AWS EC2, S3, VPC, RDS, Lambda, EKS, ECS, IAM, CloudWatch, Route 53, and AWS Organizations.
• Proficiency in the AWS Well-Architected Framework across all five pillars.
• Hands-on experience designing multi-account, multi-region AWS architectures for enterprise environments.
• Demonstrated experience architecting cloud migration strategies, including lift-and-shift, re-platform, and re-architect approaches.
• Familiarity with AWS or third-party migration tooling.
• Experience using AWS Pricing Calculator and building cost models for client estimates and proposals.

Nice To Haves

• Active AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate or Professional certification is highly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop client-facing high-level solution summaries, proposals, staffing models, Statements of Work, and responses to RFPs and RFIs.
• Lead the scoping of workshops and assess, mobilize, and execute migrations of on-premises applications and legacy data centers to AWS.
• Design cloud security, identity, and access management strategies that adhere to industry regulatory and compliance standards.
• Drive infrastructure as code using tools such as AWS CloudFormation or Terraform to build automated CI/CD pipelines.
• Act as a subject matter expert and manage the sales cycle from requirements gathering through handoff to delivery.
• Own the proposal approval lifecycle by coordinating cross-functional reviews, managing internal stakeholder sign-off, and ensuring client-facing deliverables meet Presidio standards.
• Develop and implement standardized methodologies for solution design, deployment, and optimization, incorporating industry-specific frameworks.
• Enhance team expertise and standardize best practices while delivering technical solutions tailored to client environments.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed