FuntoNetwork IT Consulting
Empowering Businesses with Innovative IT Solutions

Position: AWS Solutions Architect
Department: Cloud Architecture & Engineering
Location: The Woodlands, TX 77380 OR New Orleans, LA (Hybrid – 3 days onsite per week) – Local candidates only
Type: Contract, Full‑Time (40+ hours/week)
Reports To: Engagement Manager (FuntoNetwork) / Client Technical Lead
Tech Stack: AWS (EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, Lambda, ECS/EKS), Terraform, CloudFormation, CI/CD, Kubernetes

Regional Strategy: Gulf Coast Energy & Enterprise Solutions
This role supports a direct client with a strong presence across the Gulf Coast region, specifically in The Woodlands, TX, and New Orleans, LA. The client is undergoing a significant cloud transformation initiative, modernizing legacy on-premise workloads into scalable, secure AWS environments. We are seeking an experienced AWS Solutions Architect who can bridge the gap between business stakeholders and engineering teams, driving architecture decisions and ensuring best-in-class cloud implementations. Local candidates only – hybrid onsite presence is mandatory for effective collaboration with DevOps, application, and security teams located in both hubs.

Location Requirement:
Must reside within reasonable daily commute to either The Woodlands, TX 77380 OR New Orleans, LA. Candidates must specify which location they are applying for. No exceptions.

About FuntoNetwork
Our Cloud & Infrastructure practice enables enterprises to harness the full power of AWS through strategic architecture, migration, and optimization. We partner with clients to design resilient, cost-efficient cloud solutions that scale with their business. In this direct client engagement, you will serve as the trusted technical authority, guiding cloud strategy and hands-on implementation from the ground up.

Position Overview
We are seeking a highly skilled AWS Solutions Architect for a contract opportunity. This role is responsible for designing, implementing, and optimizing scalable, secure, and cost-effective cloud solutions on AWS. The ideal candidate has strong hands-on architecture experience, can engage with both technical and business stakeholders, and is comfortable driving long-term architectural strategy. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to define cloud roadmaps, enforce architecture standards, and ensure seamless integration across applications and data platforms.

Key Responsibilities

Core Responsibilities

• Define the technical design: Specify components, interfaces, data flows, security, deployment boundaries, and technology decisions.
• Design interfaces and contracts: Document schemas, validation, authentication, authorization, errors, versioning, and integration behavior.
• Implement assigned components: Build maintainable application, service, integration, infrastructure, or automation work.
• Create automated verification: Add unit, integration, contract, security, and regression tests with repeatable test data.
• Prepare deployment and rollback: Document configuration, migrations, pipelines, release steps, health checks, and recovery actions.
• Complete technical handover: Deliver design records, review evidence, technical documentation, runbooks, and known limitations.
• Review project scope and source materials: Review the opportunity scope, source posting, supporting documents, deadlines, addenda, and client requirements that affect the assigned role.
• Confirm role requirements and dependencies: Identify required inputs, assumptions, constraints, interfaces, decisions, acceptance criteria, and dependencies before beginning assigned work.
• Coordinate project delivery: Work with FuntoNetwork and related consultants to align responsibilities, handoffs, schedules, escalations, and client-facing outputs.
• Prepare assigned deliverables: Produce complete role-specific analysis, documentation, recommendations, configurations, estimates, or technical materials required for the engagement.
• Communicate with stakeholders: Provide clear updates, raise risks and questions promptly, document decisions, and communicate effectively with technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
• Support quality and readiness: Participate in reviews, resolve comments, maintain status information, and confirm assigned work is accurate, traceable, and ready for delivery.

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