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Solution Architect II - Cloud Infrastructure Services

Who We Are:

Born digital, UST transforms lives through the power of technology. We walk alongside our clients and partners, embedding innovation and agility into everything they do. We help them create transformative experiences and human-centered solutions for a better world.

UST is a mission-driven group of 29,000+ practical problem solvers and creative thinkers in more than 30 countries. Our entrepreneurial teams are empowered to innovate, act nimbly, and create a lasting and sustainable impact for our clients, their customers, and the communities in which we live.

With us, you’ll create a boundless impact that transforms your career—and the lives of people across the world.

You Are:

UST is searching for an AWS Cloud Architect to lead the architecture and execution of our on-premises to AWS migration. This role owns the end-to-end target-state design for a complex application landscape that includes Liferay, SiteCore, PingFederate, ETL jobs, and Angular/Node.js applications — and works hands-on with DevOps practices to get workloads safely into production on AWS.

The opportunity:

• Own the target-state AWS architecture for the on-premises to AWS migration across the application portfolio
• Assess existing on-prem applications — Liferay, SiteCore, PingFederate, ETL jobs, Angular/Node.js services — and define per-application migration strategy (rehost, replatform, refactor)
• Design AWS infrastructure and integration patterns for portal/CMS platforms (Liferay, SiteCore) and identity/SSO (PingFederate)
• Architect migration and re-platforming of ETL jobs onto AWS-native or AWS-compatible data processing services
• Define CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices (build, test, deploy, containerization) for migrated applications
• Establish cloud engineering standards, guardrails, and reference architectures for teams to follow during migration
• Lead technical design reviews, migration runbooks, and cutover planning across application teams
• Partner with security and DevSecOps to ensure migrated applications meet compliance and security requirements
• Provide hands-on architectural guidance and troubleshooting support during build and cutover phases
• Define and implement the observability strategy for migrated applications using Dynatrace
• Design certificate management architecture using AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) for migrated applications and load balancers

This position description identifies the responsibilities and tasks typically associated with the performance of the position. Other relevant essential functions may be required.

What you need:

• (Must Have) AWS Cloud Architecture
• Extensive hands-on experience architecting and delivering solutions on AWS
• Experience leading on-premises to AWS migration projects, including migration strategy and target-state design
• Strong understanding of AWS core services — compute, networking, storage, security, and database Observability (Dynatrace)
• Hands-on experience implementing and configuring Dynatrace for application and infrastructure observability
• Experience defining monitoring, logging, and dashboarding strategy for migrated cloud workloads
• Comfortable using Dynatrace for root-cause analysis and performance troubleshooting during and after migration
• Hands-on expertise provisioning and managing SSL/TLS certificates using AWS Certificate Manager
• Experience integrating ACM with CloudFront, load balancers (ALB/NLB), and API Gateway
• Understands certificate renewal automation, validation methods (DNS/email), and cross-account/cross-region certificate strategies
• Hands-on DevOps experience — CI/CD pipeline design, automation, and containerization (Docker)
• Experience embedding DevOps and DevSecOps practices into migration and deployment workflows
• Comfortable working across infrastructure as code, build pipelines, and deployment automation
• Experience with Liferay portal architecture, deployment, and integration
• Experience with SiteCore architecture and hosting on cloud infrastructure
• Experience with PingFederate for SSO/federated identity and integration with cloud applications
• Experience with ETL job design, migration, and orchestration
• Experience with Angular front-end and Node.js backend application architectures

Preferred Qualifications:

• AWS Certifications
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional
• Additional Experience
• Familiarity with AWS Application Migration Service (MGN), AWS DMS, or AWS DataSync
• Experience with containerized deployments on ECS/EKS
• Exposure to hybrid connectivity (Direct Connect, Site-to-Site VPN) for phased migrations

Core Technology Stack Area Technologies:

• Migration Scope: On-premises to AWS lift-and-shift / re-architecture migration
• Portal / CMS: Liferay (Must), SiteCore (Must)
• Identity & Access: PingFederate (Must) — SSO, SAML, OAuth/OIDC
• Data Processing: ETL Jobs (Must)
• Application Stack: Angular (Must), Node.js (Must)
• DevOps & CI/CD: CodePipeline, CodeBuild, Docker, GitHub, Infrastructure as Code (CDK/CloudFormation)
• Compute & Networking: EC2, ECS/EKS, VPC, ELB/ALB, Route 53
• Storage & Database: S3, RDS, EFS
• Security & IAM: IAM, KMS, WAF, Secrets Manager, AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) (Must)
• Migration Tooling: AWS Application Migration Service (MGN), AWS DMS, AWS DataSync
• Observability: Dynatrace (Must)
• Monitoring & Ops: CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Systems Manager

Compensation Range: $134,000-$201,000

Benefits

Full-time, regular employees accrue a minimum of 10 days of paid vacation per year, receive 6 days of paid sick leave each year (pro-rated for new hires throughout the year), 10 paid holidays, and are eligible for paid bereavement leave and jury duty. They are eligible to participate in the Company’s 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer matching. They and their dependents residing in the US are eligible for medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as the following Company-paid Employee Only benefits: basic life insurance, accidental death and disability insurance, and short- and long-term disability benefits. Regular employees may purchase additional voluntary short-term disability benefits, and participate in a Health Savings Account (HSA) as well as a Flexible Spending Account (FSA) for healthcare, dependent child care, and/or commuting expenses as allowable under IRS guidelines. Benefits offerings vary in Puerto Rico.

Part-time employees receive 6 days of paid sick leave each year (pro-rated for new hires throughout the year) and are eligible to participate in the Company’s 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer matching.

Full-time temporary employees receive 6 days of paid sick leave each year (pro-rated for new hires throughout the year) and are eligible to participate in the Company’s 401(k) program with employer matching. They and their dependents residing in the US are eligible for medical, dental, and vision insurance.

Part-time temporary employees receive 6 days of paid sick leave each year (pro-rated for new hires throughout the year).

All US employees who work in a state or locality with more generous paid sick leave benefits than specified here will receive the benefit of those sick leave laws.

What we believe:

We proudly embrace the values that have shaped UST since day one. We build our culture of Humility, Humanity, and Integrity. These values inspire us to nurture a people-first, human centric culture that fosters diversity, prioritizes sustainable solutions, and keeps our people and clients at the forefront of all decisions.

Humility:

We will listen, learn, be empathetic and help selflessly in our interactions with everyone.

Humanity:

Through business, we will better the lives of those less fortunate than ourselves.

Integrity:

We honor our commitments and act with responsibility in all our relationships.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

UST is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other applicable characteristics protected by law. We will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records in accordance with state and local laws and “fair chance” ordinances.

UST reserves the right to periodically redefine your roles and responsibilities based on the requirements of the organization and/or your performance.

Location: Remote-US

Skills

AWS Application Migration Service, AWS, Infrastructure as Code, Cloud Infrastructure, AWS CDK, AWS CodePipeline, AWS Database Migration Service, AWS IAM, Amazon EC2, Dynatrace, DevOps

Compensation range: $134,000.00 to $201,000.00 per year

About UST

UST is a global digital transformation solutions provider. For more than 20 years, UST has worked side by side with the world’s best companies to make a real impact through transformation. Powered by technology, inspired by people and led by purpose, UST partners with their clients from design to operation. With deep domain expertise and a future-proof philosophy, UST embeds innovation and agility into their clients’ organizations. With over 30,000 employees in 30 countries, UST builds for boundless impact—touching billions of lives in the process.