IT Associates is seeking a Senior Cloud Architect with hands-on experience in migrating on-premises solutions to Nutanix on AWS. The role involves architecting enterprise-grade cloud solutions, leading migrations, and ensuring compliance with security and operational standards.
Responsibilities:
- Architect enterprise‑grade cloud and hybrid Solutions using AWS and Nutanix on AWS (NC2)
- Define cloud landing zones, reference architectures, and Solution standards
- Design highly available, scalable, and fault‑tolerant solutions aligned with business and compliance requirements
- Evaluate and recommend Solution tools, services, and technologies
- Lead architecture and design for on‑premises data center migrations to AWS, including hybrid and phased approaches
- Support migrations using Nutanix on AWS (NC2) as a transition or steady‑state Solution
- Define migration patterns (lift‑and‑shift, re‑Solution, hybrid) and cutover strategies
- Partner with application and infrastructure teams to minimize risk and downtime
- Design and implement Nutanix Cloud Solution (AOS, AHV, Prism) running on AWS
- Architect networking and connectivity across on‑prem, AWS, and NC2 environments (VPCs, Transit Gateway, VPN, Direct Connect)
- Support workload placement and performance optimization across Solutions
- Enable Solution automation and configuration management using Harness
- Drive infrastructure‑as‑code and configuration standards using Terraform, CloudFormation, and Ansible
- Integrate CI/CD pipelines for Solution and infrastructure deployments
- Promote repeatable, version‑controlled Solution builds
- Design and implement AWS IAM strategies including roles, policies, least‑privilege access, and federation
- Integrate CyberArk for privileged access management
- Implement endpoint and workload protection using CrowdStrike
- Ensure security best practices across cloud and hybrid Solutions
- Design and integrate centralized logging, monitoring, and observability using Splunk and AWS‑native services
- Define operational monitoring, alerting, and incident response patterns
- Support SRE and operations teams with reliable and observable Solutions
- Establish cloud governance, guardrails, and compliance controls
- Ensure Solution designs meet security, audit, and regulatory requirements
- Support DR, backup, and business continuity architectures
- Act as a trusted technical advisor to stakeholders, engineers, and leadership
- Provide guidance and mentorship to Solution and cloud engineering teams
- Contribute to architectural roadmaps, standards, and best practices
Requirements:
- 7+ years of experience in infrastructure, cloud, or Solution architecture
- Strong hands‑on experience with AWS (EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, EKS, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect)
- Proven experience with Nutanix on AWS (NC2) and Nutanix Solution components
- Hands‑on experience migrating workloads from on‑premises environments to AWS
- Experience with Harness for configuration management and CI/CD
- Strong understanding of IAM, security tooling, and enterprise controls
- Experience integrating Splunk, CyberArk, and CrowdStrike
- Solid background in hybrid networking and enterprise infrastructure
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Associate or Professional)
- Nutanix certifications (NCP, NCM, or equivalent)
- Experience with Windows and Linux Solutions
- Background in large‑scale enterprise or regulated environments
- Consulting or managed services experience