Sr.Lead Consultant-Migrations

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DESCRIPTION:
AWS Professional Services Cloud Migration Consultant with IaC automation, Cloud Formation & Terraform experience. Deep expertise in Data Center Applications, Servers & Storage migrations from on-premise to cloud or cloud to cloud. Experience in assessing customer business needs and technology landscape to identify opportunities and recommend the optimal migration strategy.
Amazon has built a reputation for excellence with recent examples of being named #1 in customer service, #1 most trusted, and #2 most innovative. Amazon has a fast-paced environment where we "Work Hard, Have Fun, Make History."
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is carrying on that tradition while leading the world in Cloud technologies. As a member of the AWS Professional Services team you will be at the forefront of this transformational technology assisting a global list of companies that are taking advantage of a growing set of services and features to run their mission-critical applications.
Professional Services engage in a wide variety of projects for customers and partners, providing collective experience from across the AWS customer base and are obsessed about strong success for the Customer. Our team collaborates across the entire AWS organization to bring access to product and service teams, to get the right solution delivered and drive feature innovation based upon customer needs. You will collaborate with our customers and/or partners on key engagements and will develop and deliver proof-of-concept projects, technical workshops, feature comparisons, and execute migration projects.
You will be based in Hyderabad/Bangalore and might have to travel globally to ensure customer success.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Lead the design, planning and implementation of complex IT infrastructure migration solutions
- Ability to drive and consult in architectural discussions and design exercises to build and automate large scale migrations to cloud
- Perform application portfolio analysis to identify candidate applications and workloads for migration and develop an optimal migration plan
- Verify technical feasibility and validate solution options for the requirements
- Identify workarounds for specific issues and corner scenarios observed during migration
- Develop test plan and test-cases to demonstrate application/database readiness post migration
- Work closely with application teams to develop a migration plan and ensure business functionality and SLAs are met
- Consult for optimal design of server /database environments and propose recommendations to optimize performance
- Develop innovative solutions to complex business and technology problems
- Partner with the sales team to design solutions for customers that drive cloud adoption
- Conduct technical sessions for internal teams, partners and customers
About the team
Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn't followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don't let it stop you from applying.
Why AWS?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating - that's why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.
Inclusive Team Culture
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Mentorship & Career Growth
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Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there's nothing we can't achieve in the cloud.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:
- 10+ years of technical specialist, design and architecture experience and 7+ years of cloud and on-premise integration experience
- Bachelor's degree in Information Science / Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or a related field.
- 4+ years of technical experience in migrating IT infrastructure from On-Prem to any Cloud environment, including landing zones creation and application migration (On-premise to VMC on AWS experience preferred).
- 4+ years of experience in Design, build, upgrade and maintenance of VMware environments (Knowledge on vCenter, HCX, NSX, VLAN, VSAN, VMFS, NFS and VMware tools)
- Experience in automation and Infrastructure as a Code with expertise in tools such as Python, Terraform or Ansible
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Experience in assessment of source architecture and map it to relevant target architecture in the cloud environment
- Experience in defining the right migration methodology/tools for the migrations based on technical complexity
- Practical Linux or Windows-based systems administration skills, with good knowledge on Storage, Security and network tracks
- Good understanding and experience in dealing with firewall rules, VPC setup, network routing, Identity & Access Management and security implementation
- Experience in Cloud Formation, Terraform and other automation/scripting
- Implementation experience with primary AWS/similar services like - (EC2, ELB, EBS, EFS, S3,VPC, RDS, Route53, etc).
- Working knowledge on configuration management tools such as Puppet, Chef or Ansible is a plus

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