Primary Skills Required for AWS Cloud Lead Architect:

In depth knowledge of key AWS services (EC2, ECS, EKS, ELB, RDS, Route53 & S3, VPC, IAM, Autoscaling, SNS/SQS etc..).
Proven experience assessing client workloads and technology landscape for Cloud suitability, develop business case and Cloud adoption roadmap
Work with appropriate client stakeholders in understanding the current financials pertaining to application hosting and build business cases for a cloud-hosted future state
Collaborate with architects and SMEs in the proposal of migration timelines, tools to be used, migration waves and application grouping
Experience in defining new architectures and ability to drive project from architecture standpoint
Ability to quickly establish credibility and trustworthiness with key stakeholders in client organization.
Experience to build scalable production systems (load balancers, Memcached, master/slave architectures)
Proven ability to troubleshoot infrastructure and/or application connectivity issues across a complex global network
Proven experience of AWS WAF (Well Architected Framework and Best Practices)
Strong track record of implementing AWS services in a variety of distributed computing environments
Leading highly available and fault-tolerant enterprise and web-scale software deployments.
Infrastructure automation through scripting (E.g. shell /Bash/PowerShell, Python).
Solid Knowledge & understanding on Serverless Technologies, Event Driven Architecture, Micro services
Solid hand on experience in Cloud Formation or Terraform
Study existing technology landscape and understand current application workloads
Define Migration strategy to move application to cloud. Knowledge and understanding on 6Rs(Rehost, RePlatform, Rearchitect, Refactor, Retire etc..
Solid prior experience in assessments / cloud assessments / AWS Migration Accelerator Program
Must have ability to perform gap analysis, cash flow analysis, TCO analysis, business case analysis
should have prior experience of migration on-premises workloads onto AWS.
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, Manage discussions with Client stakeholders and Escalations
Validate the environment to meets all security and compliance controls

Experience Required

Experience: 14+ years, relevant: 6-8 years

Mandatory skills

5-8+ years of current AWS solutions architecture (implementation/consulting) experience
Experience architecting infrastructure solutions using both Linux/Unix and Windows with specific recommendations on server, load balancing, HA/DR, & storage architectures.
Strong verbal and written communications skills, as well as the ability to work effectively across external organizations, multiple stakeholders and client partners

AWS Cloud Lead Migration Architect