AWS Cloud Architect

AWS Cloud Architect

Location: Atlanta, GA / Hoboken, NJ, United States

Number of Openings: 1

Permanent

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Study existing technology landscape and understand current application workloads
• Understand and document technical requirements from clients
• Define migration strategy to move application to cloud
• Develop architecture blueprints and detailed documentation. Create bill of materials, including required Cloud Services (such as EC2, S3 etc.) and tools
• Design the overall Virtual Private Cloud VPC environment including server instance, storage instances, subnets, availability zones, etc
• Design the AWS network architecture including VPN connectivity between regions and subnets
• Design the HA / DR strategies
• Set up process, services and tools around cloud
• Oversee build of the environment
• Execute migration plan
• Leverage appropriate AWS/Azure services
• Validate the environment to meets all security and compliance controls

Experience Required:

• Perform design, migration, deployment and operation of cloud Infrastructure spanning across Public and Private Clouds (Knowledge of Public Cloud Services – AWS, Azure essential)
• In depth knowledge of key AWS services like EC2, S3 etc.
• Proven experience assessing clients workloads and technology landscape for Cloud suitability, develop business case and Cloud adoption roadmap
• Proven knowledge of AWS/Azure platform and tools
• Experience in defining new architectures and ability to drive project from architecture standpoint
• Knowledge of best practices and market trends pertaining to Cloud and overall industry to provide thought leadership (seminars, whitepapers etc.,) and mentor team to build necessary competency
• Ability to quickly establish credibility and trustworthiness with key stakeholders in client organization.
• Experience provisioning and spinning up AWS Clusters
• Experience to build scalable production systems (load balancers, mem cached, master/slave architectures)
• Should be able to shape architecture / solutions for Azure /AWS- design Private and Public Cloud Infrastructure for enterprise customers
• Migration approach to lift and shift the workloads or architecting a greenfield development and/or production platform for new applications
• Acts as an SME for Azure / AWS cloud services
• Deployment Configuration mgmt Puppet, Chef, Salt or Ansible
• Good knowledge on Scripting language Shell, PHP, Python, Go or Perl.
• Lead compliance assessments with the customer on designed Azure architecture
• Excellent verbal, written and presentation skills
• Certification on AWS or Azure architecture desirable