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
