--- title: 'AWS Sr. Cloud Architect at Megazone Cloud US' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/aws-sr-cloud-architect-megazone-cloud-us-frisco-a5mccz5ywbtb' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-10-15' --- # AWS Sr. Cloud Architect at Megazone Cloud US - **Company:** Megazone Cloud US - **Location:** Frisco, TX - **Compensation:** $170k–$195k - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-10-07 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-15 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/megazone/b492a5c2-58dd-4609-92cd-cdaf5bc41822 ## Job description ## About the Role The Principal AWS Cloud Architect is a lead-level technical role on our cloud engagements. You'll own the technical direction of a workstream or engagement end to end, working with the customer's technical teams to set strategy and drive it to a documented, agreed target state. This is a leadership role that stays hands-on. You'll lead and mentor a blended onshore/offshore delivery team. When the project calls for it, you'll roll up your sleeves and build: designing landing zones, running migration waves, and writing and reviewing IaC yourself. You're equally comfortable leading a team of engineers or working independently as the sole architect on a project. ## Key Responsibilities Technical Leadership & Strategy - Own the technical strategy for the engagement and drive it to a documented, agreed target state. - Act as the primary technical point of contact for the customer's technical leadership on architecture, sequencing, and risk; drive discussions to decisions rather than leaving them open. - Recommend best-fit approaches prescriptively and with conviction, backed by delivery experience. Say so clearly when the customer's preferred path is the wrong one. - Make and document consequential architecture decisions, including trade-offs considered and those deliberately deferred. - Set the engineering standard by example: review designs, code, and IaC personally. Hands-On Delivery - Work independently as the sole architect on smaller or early-phase engagements, owning design and build without a supporting team. - Step in hands-on when the project needs it to: - build foundational environments - execute migration waves - troubleshoot replication and cutover issues - write Terraform/CDK - Lead remediation personally when a workstream needs stabilization. ## Team Leadership & Offshore Coordination - Lead and coordinate offshore engineering teams across time zones: assign and sequence work, set clear acceptance criteria, and run effective handoffs so progress continues around the clock. - Review offshore deliverables (designs, IaC, runbooks, migration plans) for quality and consistency before they reach the customer. - Mentor consultants and engineers to raise their technical depth, delivery discipline, and customer-facing skill. Unblock them quickly and help them grow into more senior roles. - Partner with the Engagement Manager and customer to build an achievable project plan with realistic milestones and dependencies. - Confirm the team has the right skill mix and capacity; escalate gaps early. - Coordinate technical execution alongside partner consultants and other vendor teams in an Agile delivery model. - Contribute to the development and refinement of new delivery offerings, reusable assets, and best practices. Foundational Architecture - Design and deploy AWS foundational environments using Control Tower and Landing Zone Accelerator (LZA). - Define and implement multi-account strategy, covering: - AWS Organizations and OU structure - account vending - SCPs - centralized logging and security tooling - Implement IAM and Identity Center, guardrails, and security baselines across the account structure. Migration Execution - Lead discovery and assessment of on-premises estates: application dependency mapping, right-sizing analysis, and migration wave planning. - Determine the right migration strategy per workload (rehost or replatform), balancing speed, risk, and long-term operating cost. - Lead lift-and-shift replication of physical and VMware-based servers into EC2 using AWS Application Migration Service (MGN), including image conversion and OS/driver remediation. - Direct replatforming onto managed AWS services: self-managed databases to RDS, load balancers to ALB/NLB, static content to CloudFront. - Own hybrid connectivity design: Direct Connect, Site-to-Site VPN, Transit Gateway, DNS, and Active Directory integration. - Oversee storage and database migrations (DMS, DataSync, Storage Gateway, Snow Family) and validate data integrity. - Set standards for IaC (Terraform, AWS CDK), pipeline automation, and operational readiness before workloads reach production. - Produce and review design documents, migration runbooks, diagrams, decision records, and hand-over guides. ## Qualifications - 15+ years designing and operating infrastructure, including 5+ years in a lead or principal architect role on customer-facing engagements. - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or similar. - Demonstrated hands-on AWS depth. You have personally built production systems, not only managed teams that built them, and can still do so today. - Proven ability to work independently as the sole architect on a project, from design through delivery. - Experience leading and mentoring offshore or distributed engineering teams, including delegating work, reviewing quality, and coordinating across time zones. - Experience setting technical strategy for an engagement and coordinating with customer technical leadership. - Hands-on experience building AWS foundational environments: Control Tower, Landing Zone Accelerator, AWS Organizations, and multi-account architecture. - Demonstrated experience with large-scale, multi-wave cloud migrations. - Practical experience executing rehost and replatform migrations, and the judgment to recommend the right approach per workload. - Hands-on experience with AWS Application Migration Service (MGN), AWS Migration Hub, and VM Import/Export. - Strong AWS networking fundamentals: VPC design, routing, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect/VPN, and DNS. - Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform and AWS CDK) and at least one scripting language (Python, Bash, or PowerShell). - Current ability to review code and IaC, not just architecture diagrams. - Excellent communication skills, with the ability to present to both customer executives and engineering teams. - Active AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional certification required. An additional AWS Specialty certification (e.g., Security, Advanced Networking, or Machine Learning) is a plus. - Experience with AWS Transform (including AWS Transform for VMware) is a significant plus. ## Why You'll Love It Here - Our Product is Our People: We live by this. We invest in people who invest in themselves. Your growth is our growth. - True Servant Leadership: Our CTO leads with a "force multiplier" philosophy. Management is here to empower you and clear roadblocks, not to micromanage. We won't ask you to do anything we're not willing to do ourselves. - Flat Organization, Real Impact: Your voice and designs will directly shape our technical roadmap and our clients' success. You'll work on the latest tech to solve real problems. - A "Learn-from-it" Culture: We're moving fast and building new things. We believe mistakes are learning opportunities, not failures. We seek diverse talent who are ready to make an immediate impact. We believe that innovation thrives when teams are built with a variety of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. If you are excited by this mission, we encourage you to apply, even if your experience doesn't perfectly match every qualification listed. Megazone Cloud is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify to confirm the employment eligibility of all new hires. ## About Megazone Cloud US ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Megazone Cloud US is the American arm of a leading AI-native digital transformation partner, providing cloud, AI, and cybersecurity solutions to enterprises. - **Entity Type**: Public (part of the publicly listed Megazone Cloud group) - **Headquarters**: Fairport, New York, United States - **Founded**: 1998 (parent company) - **Founders**: Not publicly available ## Core Business - Primary industries: Cloud Services, IT Consulting, AI Solutions, Cybersecurity - Target customers: Enterprise B2B, spanning finance, manufacturing, healthcare, retail, software, and public sector - Mission/Purpose: "Transform. Tomorrow. Together." – combining technology and data with the power of people to create a better future alongside customers and partners. ## Products & Services For each major offering: - **[AI-Native Transformation & GenAI Adoption]**: Consulting and implementation services for generative AI, including the HALO security framework and AWS Agentic AI specialization. - **[Application Modernization & DevOps]**: Agile development methodology (AI SDLC) that automates and accelerates the entire process from design to operation. - **[Cloud Migration & Modernization]**: AI-based migration services that minimize manual errors and provide data-driven insights for future growth. - **[AI Contact Center (AICC)]**: An AI-native Amazon Connect-based solution that integrates all customer touchpoints with GenAI automation for a seamless consultation experience. - **[Data & AI]**: Data analytics and insights services. - **[Cybersecurity (HALO Framework)]**: An integrated security approach based on cloud expertise, broad capabilities, and intelligent defense in the AI era. - **[Cloud Infrastructure Management]**: Managed services for AWS, Azure, and GCP environments. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available for the US entity; parent company is publicly listed on the Korea Exchange (ticker: 224110.KS) - **Key Metric**: Parent company reported eyes 10x revenue growth with U.S. expansion; serves over 8,000 clients worldwide with 2,000+ cloud and AI experts - **Notable Investors/Partners**: AWS (named Partner of the Year multiple times, 2025 AWS APJ Consulting Partner of the Year, AWS Agentic AI Specialization), Snowflake, Databricks, Google Cloud Platform - **Growth Signals**: US headcount of 39 with monthly growth of +2.3%; aggressively hiring across multiple U.S. locations; publicizing "10x Revenue Growth" targets for U.S. expansion; 37 active job postings ## Competitive Advantages - **Global Scale with Local Presence**: Part of a group of 2,700+ employees and 2,000+ cloud/AI experts with operations across the US, Canada, Korea, Japan, Southeast Asia, and Oceania, while maintaining a focused US office. - **Deep Cloud Partnerships**: Multiple "Partner of the Year" awards from AWS (including back-to-back APJ Consulting Partner of the Year) and active partnerships with Snowflake, Databricks, and GCP. - **End-to-End AI-Native Capabilities**: Covers the full spectrum from cloud migration to application modernization to AI-native contact centers and cybersecurity, all under one roof. - **Proprietary Frameworks**: The HALO security framework and AI SDLC methodology provide differentiated, repeatable solutions. ## Strategic Focus - **Aggressive US Market Expansion**: Publicly targeting "10x revenue growth" through strategic expansion in the U.S., focusing on generative AI and quantum computing. - **AI and Agentic AI Leadership**: Recently achieved AWS Agentic AI Specialization, positioning itself at the cutting edge of autonomous AI solutions. - **Industry-Specific Solutions**: Tailored approaches for finance (e.g., Woori Bank cloud platform), manufacturing, automotive, healthcare, retail, and public sector. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Emphasis on "Trinity Values" – customer-first innovation, continuous asset creation, and excellence in execution. The company promotes active learning, forward thinking, and global perspective. - **Work Policy**: Hybrid workspace (mix of remote and on-site work); offices in Fairport (NY), Rochester (NY), Irvine (CA), and multiple global locations. - **Growth Trajectory**: Rapid US expansion with a small, growing team (39 employees, 2.3% monthly growth) offers significant impact and career acceleration opportunities. - **Tech Stack**: Modern, cloud-native environment with AWS, Azure, GCP, Snowflake, Python, Java, Kubernetes, and AI/ML tools. - **Global Exposure**: Opportunity to work with a global team spanning 6+ countries and serve 8,000+ clients worldwide. ## Sources 1. [megazone.com](https://www.megazone.com/) 2. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/megazonecloud-us) 3. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/megazone-cloud) 4. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/megazone) 5. 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