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# Enterprise Cloud Architect (AWS)

- **Company:** Norfolk Southern Corp
- **Location:** Atlanta, GA, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** HTML, JavaScript (Programming Language), Agile Methodology, Amazon Web Services, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon S3, Audit Trail, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Cloud Engineering, Cyber Security, Continuous Integration, Disaster Recovery, Identity and Access Management, Process Driven Development, Systems Development Life Cycle, Software Vulnerability Management, Extensible Markup Language (XML), Policy as Code, Data Logging, HybridCloud, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Cloudformation, Amazon Relational Database Service, AngularJS, Git Flow, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Information Technology, Opsworks, Functional Programming, Cloudwatch, Restful APIs, Terraform, Serverless Computing, Servicenow, Programming Languages
- **Published:** October 9, 2026
- **Apply:** https://jobs.nscorp.com/talentcommunity/apply/1438416600/?locale=en_US

## About the Role

* Bachelor's degree, preferably in Information Technology or similar, * 5+ years of cloud architecture or engineering experience
 * Experience defining AWS architecture principles, standards, guardrails, and automation patterns.
 * Experience translating business priorities into scalable AWS architecture and roadmap decisions.

Technical Skills Preferred

 * AWS Services: Control Tower, IAM Identity Center, VPC, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, ECS or EKS, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, AWS Config, Security Hub, and GuardDuty.
 * Agile (SAFE) Development Methodology
 * SDLC Methodology
 * ITIL v4 Foundations
 * Functional experience with programming languages, i.e., Javascript, Terraform, XML, HTML, CSS, Angular, REST
 * Knowledge of ServiceNow platform capabilities and features

Experience and Soft Skills Preferred

 * Strong knowledge of cloud-native design and modernization, including ACK, ArgoCD, Terraform or AWS CloudFormation/CDK, Git-based workflows, CI/CD, containers, serverless, and observability.
 * Experience as an Architect performing E2E implementation, deployments, and upgrades.
 * Excellent communication and collaboration skills across security, infrastructure, application, data, and business teams.
 * Demonstrated technical leadership, sound judgment, problem-solving ability, and influence in complex environments.

Certifications Preferred

 * AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional or Associate

## Description

* Design secure, scalable, resilient, and cost-optimized AWS architectures aligned with business strategy and the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
 * Define cloud governance, reference architectures, guardrails, standards, and reusable patterns for the AWS environment.
 * Assess workloads and AWS services for modernization, performance, resiliency, security, and cost optimization opportunities.
 * Provide technical leadership for AWS landing zones, networking, identity, compute, storage, data, integration, containers, and serverless services.
 * Partner with Cybersecurity to embed identity management, encryption, logging, monitoring, vulnerability management, and compliance controls by design.
 * Evaluate emerging AWS capabilities and recommend practical adoption approaches, including generative AI where appropriate.
 * Guide application and platform teams on cloud-native design, migration patterns, and architecture decisions.
 * Advance infrastructure as code, policy as code, CI/CD, observability, backup, and disaster recovery practices.
 * Maintain clear architecture documentation, decision records, standards, and shared knowledge repositories.
 * Drive adoption through stakeholder engagement, technical mentoring, and effective change management.