Job Description

Overview:

Job Title / Role: AWS Solution Architect



Career Band: C1/C2



Total Experience: 10 + Years



Technical Qualification/ Knowledge:

Expertise in assessment , designing and implementing AWS solutions including aspects like compute, network, storage, identity, security , DR/business continuity strategy, migration , CF templates , cost optimization, PowerShell ,Terraforms, Ansible etc.. Must have AWS Solution Architect Certification



Good knowledge on the cloud technology, different patterns, deployment methods, compatibility of the applications



Good knowledge on the AWS technologies and associated components and variations



VPC, VPC Peering, Direct Connect, subnet, Route 53, Availability Zones



EC2, AMI, Snapshot, Auto scaling,



EBS, S3, Multi region replication, Storage Gateway, Snowball



Load balancers , Nat Gateway , Internet Gateway



Security components , Key pair, security groups, ACL; IAM, Directory Service, Certificate manager



RDS, DMS, EMR, REDSHIFT, Dynamo DB



Cloud Watch, Ops works, Cloud Trail



Json scripting, Cloud formation, any other scripting language for automation



Amazon Market place



All other Amazon cloud service offerings



Ability to develop a robust design to meet customer business requirement with scalability , availability , performance and cost effectiveness using Amazon offerings



Ability to identify and gather requirements to define an architectural solution which can be successfully built and operate on AWS,



Ability to conclude high level and low level design for the AWS platform which may also include data center design as necessary



Capabilities to provide AWS operations and deployment guidance and best practices throughout the lifecycle of a project



Understanding the significance of the different metrics under the monitoring, their threshold values and should be able to take necessary corrective measures based on the thresholds



Knowledge on automation to reduce the number of incidents or the repetitive incidents are preferred



Must have good knowledge on the networking, subnet , subnet masking, route tables, routing, access control list, NAT and port address translation



Must have knowledge on the traditional IT infrastructure includes



Server Hardware, Virtualization platforms, Clustering



Storage



Networking basic data base implementation knowledge



Basic knowledge on typical application deployment , load balancing



Good knowledge on the data center operation, monitoring tools, backup solution



Hands on knowledge on the Data center migration and application migration to the AWS cloud or any other cloud environment



Good understanding of the data center deployment design, how the components works together, understanding of the component level dependencies within and outside data center



Experience expected:

3+ year of experience in AWS based design (HLD and LLD) of the different components to meet the customer and business expectation in a cost effective manner



Must have performed cloud architecting job for significant volume of application deployment in cloud



3+ years of hands-on experience operating AWS-based applications, EC2 instances, Storage, backup, network configuration, automation, DR, backup and recovery



One or more years' experience provisioning, operating, and maintaining systems running on AWS



5 or more years equivalent experience in the data center operation in any of the following areas



OS administration ( either Windows or Linux/ Unix)



Storage + backup management ( Enterprise level storages)



Administration of the virtualization platform ( any one VMWare, Hyper-V, KVM)



Network administration with good knowledge on at least one Operating system



Good experience in designing DR and HA solutions and hands on experience for deploying those



Experience on enterprise level IT infrastructure monitoring



Cloud migration experience using industry leading tools



Roles and Responsibilities:

Ability to understand the design from the shared design document, and plan for the implementation / configuration



Implement and Configure end to end all aspects of AWS as per design



Configuration of Disaster Recovery design within and outside AWS cloud



Demonstrating "User Acceptance Tests" for all the Amazon AWS Components at Infrastructure layer including Compute, Storage, Backup, DR, Network, Security and Load Balancing.



Scripting for automating the repeatable tasks (Provisioning, Monitoring, Backup, DR-Sync and image Creation).



Implementation and Monitoring of Security Aspects of AWS (Key Pairs, Virtual LAN, Security Access)



Migration of Data Center to AWS



Helping project team for analysis of the application and infrastructure assessment for cloud migration and cloud suitability



Troubleshooting the AWS related issues within stipulated time frame



Design Low Level Detailed Migration Plans for Workloads from Physical or Virtual Servers to AWS



Migration of Physical and Virtual OS (Hyper-V, VMware and Azure) to AWS using various Tools as P-to-V and V-to-V.



Demonstrating "User Acceptance Tests" for all the Amazon AWS Components at Infrastructure layer including Compute, Storage, Backup, DR, Network, Security and Load Balancing



Performing POC for different tools used in assessment, migration, testing



Researching on new tool sets as needed to meet the customer and organizational requirement to deliver on time and within planned cost



Ability to learn and adopt new technologies



Ability to perform eh tasks stated above independently



Certification: Aws Certified Solution Architect ? Associate



Aws Certified Solution Architect ? Professional Certificate



Other OEM cloud certifications are desired



Process/ Quality Knowledge:

Must have clear knowledge on ITIL based service delivery



ITIL certification is desired



Knowledge on quality



Knowledge on security processes



Soft Skill



Excellent communication skill and capability to work directly with global customers



Excellent documentation skill



Excellent leadership skill to drive project as technology architecture leader



Focused on quality of deliverables, cost of delivery and time of delivery



Customer focused



Timely and accurate communication



Need to demonstrate the ownership for the technical issues and engage the right stakeholders for timely resolution



Flexibility to learn and lead other technology areas like other public cloud technologies, private cloud, automation



Good reporting skill



Willing to work in different time zones as per project requirement



Good attitude to work in team and as individual contributor based on the project and situation



Focused, result oriented and self-motivating