AWS Cloud Infrastructure Architect

Job Description

W-2 Open Positions Need to be Filled Immediately. Consultant must be on our company payroll, Corp-to-Corp (C2C) is not allowed.

Candidates encouraged to apply directly using this portal. We do not accept resumes from other company/ third-party recruiters -->

Job Overview

Job ID: J52801

Posted Date: 01/10/2026

--> Specialized Area: AWS

--> Job Title: AWS Cloud Infrastructure Architect

Location: Frisco, TX

Duration: 24 Months + Extension

Hourly Rate: Depending on Experience (DOE)

Domain Exposure: IT/Software

--> Work Authorization: US Citizen, Green Card, OPT-EAD, CPT, H-1B, H4-EAD, L2-EAD, GC-EAD

Client: To Be Discussed Later

Employment Type: W-2, 1099, C2C Bench Recruiter: Nina Stephens

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Job Details

Job Title: AWS Cloud Infrastructure Architect

Key Responsibilities

Architect end-to-end infrastructure solutions leveraging AWS Well-Architected Framework and enterprise design patterns.

Design scalable, secure multi-account landing zones, VPC architectures, enterprise networking, and workload isolation strategies.

Provide architecture leadership for containerized platforms, including Amazon EKS and large-scale self-managed Kubernetes clusters.

Migration Leadership

Lead complex On-Prem AWS and intra-AWS migrations involving VPC redesigns, account realignments, multi-region moves, and host architecture changes.

Drive migrations from shared-tenant EC2/EKS deployments to AWS Dedicated Hosts, ensuring compliance, performance, and workload isolation.

Conduct infrastructure assessments, migration strategies (rehost, replatform, refactor), and detailed cutover planning.

AWS Dedicated Host Expertise

Design and manage workloads running on AWS Dedicated Hosts, including host allocation, tenancy planning, compliance alignment, and lifecycle management.

Optimize compute planning, licensing models, capacity strategies, and high-availability architectures using Dedicated Hosts.

Ensure secure and compliant hosting for sensitive workloads requiring physical isolation and regulatory controls.

Kubernetes & Platform Engineering

Architect and manage large, multi-cluster Kubernetes environments with enterprise-grade reliability and security.

Define compute and scaling strategies using EC2, EKS, Bottlerocket, autoscaling groups, and Dedicated Hosts backed node groups.

Implement service mesh, workload identity, observability architectures, and cluster lifecycle automation.

Governance, Security & Compliance

Develop and enforce IAM architectures, guardrails, cloud governance, and security policies aligned with CIS, NIST, and organizational standards.

Partner with Security and Compliance teams to implement hardening, encryption, network segmentation, and threat detection.

Operational Excellence

Lead performance tuning, capacity planning, resiliency engineering, and availability design for large-scale AWS workloads.

Define operational playbooks for deployments, monitoring, backups, DR/HA, and workload lifecycle management.

Mentor engineering teams on AWS architecture patterns, DevOps practices, and migration execution.

Cross-Functional Leadership

Serve as a trusted advisor to engineering, SRE, product, and executive leadership.

Partner with AWS teams and vendors to drive best practices and architectural decisions.

Communicate complex solutions clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Required Qualifications

8+ years of experience in Cloud Architecture, Infrastructure Engineering, or Platform Engineering.

5+ years of advanced AWS experience across EC2, VPC, IAM, EKS, RDS, Route53, S3, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Config, and related services.

Proven experience leading large-scale AWS migrations, including On-Prem AWS and shared-tenant Dedicated Host transitions.

Deep hands-on expertise with AWS Dedicated Hosts, tenancy management, licensing considerations, and infrastructure lifecycle planning.

Strong proficiency with Kubernetes, Terraform, cloud networking, and infrastructure automation.

Excellent understanding of multi-account governance, security controls, and workload isolation.

Strong communication and architectural leadership skills.

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