Cloud Architect - AWS Experience

Cloud Architect - AWS Experience

• Location: Brazil — Remote
• Type: Full-time, long-term contractor
• Eligibility: This opportunity is open exclusively to candidates based in Brazil.

About the Company

Our client is a leading cloud-first consulting company delivering Managed Services, Staffing, and Professional Services. With a remote-first global team across North America, Europe, and Southeast Asia, the company helps organizations embrace cloud technologies through innovative, customer-focused solutions.

The organization values collaboration, agility, innovation, integrity, diversity and inclusion, and offers an environment where talented professionals can work on meaningful, cutting-edge initiatives.

About the Role

Our client is looking to hire an accomplished, client-facing AWS Cloud Architect to lead the design, implementation, and delivery of AWS customer projects.

You will be a key technical leader across cloud migration, modernization, and DevOps initiatives—guiding customer conversations, designing high-impact solutions and proofs of concept, and staying hands-on throughout project execution.

What You’ll Do

• Lead technical discussions with customers and present AWS solutions to internal and external stakeholders.
• Design and implement cloud architectures for migration, modernization, and DevOps projects.
• Support project planning by partnering with Project Managers to define backlogs and roadmaps.
• Serve as the technical escalation point for complex issues during delivery.
• Lead AWS migration initiatives from on-premise environments to AWS.
• Build innovative proof-of-concepts and contribute to the company’s technical strategy.
• Mentor team members on AWS services, cloud migration strategies, and technical best practices.
• Remain hands-on through the full project lifecycle, from solution design through implementation.
• Stay current on AWS services, DevOps tools, and emerging technologies.

What We’re Looking For

• Strong hands-on AWS expertise, including EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, CloudFormation, EKS, and ECS.
• Proven experience leading successful AWS migration and modernization projects.
• Strong DevOps experience, including Kubernetes, Docker, and CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, AWS CodeSuite, or CircleCI.
• Hands-on Infrastructure as Code experience using Terraform and/or CloudFormation.
• Solid understanding of the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
• Excellent troubleshooting and technical problem-solving skills.
• Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to explain and demo technical solutions to clients.
• AWS Professional and Specialty certifications are highly valued.
• Experience with Data, Machine Learning, AI, or open-source tools is a plus.
• Advanced English communication skills.