AWS Architect - Elastic Kubernetes Service (5-10 yrs)

Role and Responsibilities :

- Design the overall architecture of the AWS environment (Control Tower) considering AWS best practices.

- Ensure scalability, reliability, and security of the solution using AWS services (e.g EKS, Lambda, RDS,S3, VPC).

- Engage with Stakeholders to understand business requirements, technical constraints and desired outcomes.

- Provide technical leadership and guidance.

- Provides assessment of existing solutions and infrastructure to migrate to the cloud.

- Plan and execute the migration of applications to AWS.

- Ensure infrastructure readiness considering specific application requirement.

- Identify and mitigate migration risks.

- Perform Application Go-LIVE cutover and ensure minimal downtime and data integrity during migration.

- This role includes ownership of technical, commercial and service elements related to cloud migration project engagements along with building IaaS/PaaS infrastructure landing zones.

- Strong Experience on hybrid cloud solutions and experience of integrating public cloud into tradition hosting/delivery models.

- Implement cloud migration techniques and workflows (on premise to Cloud Platforms).

- Assist with creating cloud migration strategies; defining delivery architecture, creating the migration plans, designing the orchestration plans, and more.

- Assist in creating and executing migration run books.

- Determine source clouds (Physical, Virtual and Cloud) and target Workloads.

- Use troubleshooting skills and work closely with operations, support, engineering and/or other functions to ensure successful migrations.

- As part of a team, research, analyze, recommend and implement new technologies, standard processes, tools and techniques to further Cloud offerings in support of our business.

- As part of a team, recommend tools/approaches for manageability, zero downtime, scalability, repeatability, automation.

- Should contribute to develop tools to identify and mitigate security vulnerabilities.

- Should contribute to define and document standard operating procedures and protocols from a security perspective.

- Should be able to develop, support, and document automated build and configuration management processes.

- Should have knowledge on IaaC (Terraform).

- Should have prior experience on DevOps including Kubernetes (EKS), CICD pipeline, Jenkins, Helm.

- Have Knowledge around VPC, Routing & Transient gateway network Connectivity setup on AWS Cloud.