Cloud Architect IV- AWS Migration Specialist

GAMA-1 Technologies • Silver Spring, MD

15h • Hybrid

About The Position

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions Ensure security and compliance standards are maintained throughout the migration lifecycle and in the target AWS environment. Serve as the technical authority on AWS best practices for cloud migration, optimization, and modernization. Apply technical knowledge and customer insights to create a modernization roadmap and architect solutions to meet business and IT needs, ensuring technical viability of new projects and successful deployments, orchestrating key resources and infusing key infrastructure technologies. Develop and implement automation scripts and tools to streamline the migration process. Drive cost optimization by recommending rightsizing of resources and leveraging Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, and other AWS cost management features. Develops architecture solutions and evaluates alternatives for private, public and hybrid cloud models, including IaaS, PaaS, and other cloud services. Use architectural design principles to develop robust, efficient, and secure cloud solutions based on customer requirements. Architect, engineer, and deploy/provision secure and robust cloud services that include IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS and support service quality, outage management, subscription management, correlation of usage, and charges, and cost-efficient solution architecture. Develops architectural strategies/solutions to ensure application high availability in both hybrid (on-premise / cloud) and fully cloud hosted applications to provide an ‘always on’ experience. Acts as a subject matter expert for cloud end-to-end architecture, including current and future providers, networking, provisioning, and management. Document technical designs, migration runbooks, and operational procedures. Collaborate with development and operations teams to refactor and modernize applications to take full advantage of cloud-native services (e.g., containers, serverless). Provides technical expertise in the diagnosis and resolution of an issue, including the determination and provision of workaround solution or escalation to owners. Ensures delivered solutions meets technical and functional/non-functional performance requirements within. Evaluate, design, and implement solutions for migrating on-premise applications to cloud hosting solutions. Use standardized process for mapping business needs to available cloud technology options, including assessment of risks and possible mitigations. Mentor junior team members and provide technical guidance throughout the project lifecycle. Develop tools and documentation to enable the support organizations to resolve customer issues, including complex technical scenarios dealing with the cloud architecture. Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science in Systems Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent technical degree or equivalent relevant experience.
• 8+ years of experience with one or more CSP’s and relevant certifications.
• Proven experience designing and deploying large-scale cloud systems and applications.
• Strong experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Strong, demonstrable experience with AWS Migration Hub and associated services (e.g., AWS Application Migration Service/MGN, AWS Database Migration Service/DMS).
• Proven ability to implement and manage migration wave planning, including discovery and dependency mapping.
• Expertise in cost optimization, performance tuning, and security hardening in the AWS cloud environment.
• Hands-on experience with cloud security, networking, and governance.
• Experience with cloud cost management and optimization strategies.
• Experience using coding languages.
• Experience architecting and building scalable, automated infrastructure.
• Experience in large-scale enterprise IT environments.
• Experience in a consultative, client-facing consulting role.
• Understanding of load balancing, geo-redundancy, CDN, and VPN technologies.
• Knowledge of Cloud Architecture patterns and strategies (including IaaS, PaaS, Security, Compute, Storage and networking).
• Functional knowledge of Infrastructure as Code.
• Excellent written, verbal, and analytical skills.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with “Serverless” systems.
• Relevant AWS certifications or other cloud platform certifications are strongly preferred and considered a significant differentiator.
• Experience migrating large-scale data platforms, analytics systems, or high-performance computing workloads.
• Experience migrating large-scale data platforms or high-performance computing workloads.

Responsibilities

• Ensure security and compliance standards are maintained throughout the migration lifecycle and in the target AWS environment.
• Serve as the technical authority on AWS best practices for cloud migration, optimization, and modernization.
• Apply technical knowledge and customer insights to create a modernization roadmap and architect solutions to meet business and IT needs, ensuring technical viability of new projects and successful deployments, orchestrating key resources and infusing key infrastructure technologies.
• Develop and implement automation scripts and tools to streamline the migration process.
• Drive cost optimization by recommending rightsizing of resources and leveraging Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, and other AWS cost management features.
• Develops architecture solutions and evaluates alternatives for private, public and hybrid cloud models, including IaaS, PaaS, and other cloud services.
• Use architectural design principles to develop robust, efficient, and secure cloud solutions based on customer requirements.
• Architect, engineer, and deploy/provision secure and robust cloud services that include IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS and support service quality, outage management, subscription management, correlation of usage, and charges, and cost-efficient solution architecture.
• Develops architectural strategies/solutions to ensure application high availability in both hybrid (on-premise / cloud) and fully cloud hosted applications to provide an ‘always on’ experience.
• Acts as a subject matter expert for cloud end-to-end architecture, including current and future providers, networking, provisioning, and management.
• Document technical designs, migration runbooks, and operational procedures.
• Collaborate with development and operations teams to refactor and modernize applications to take full advantage of cloud-native services (e.g., containers, serverless).
• Provides technical expertise in the diagnosis and resolution of an issue, including the determination and provision of workaround solution or escalation to owners.
• Ensures delivered solutions meets technical and functional/non-functional performance requirements within.
• Evaluate, design, and implement solutions for migrating on-premise applications to cloud hosting solutions.
• Use standardized process for mapping business needs to available cloud technology options, including assessment of risks and possible mitigations.
• Mentor junior team members and provide technical guidance throughout the project lifecycle.
• Develop tools and documentation to enable the support organizations to resolve customer issues, including complex technical scenarios dealing with the cloud architecture.

Benefits

• health insurance coverage
• life and disability insurance
• 401(k) savings plan
• training and career development opportunities
• paid holidays
• paid time off (PTO - to cover vacation, illness or disability, appointments, emergencies or other situations that require time off from work)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level