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GAMA-1 Technologies · 2 weeks ago

Cloud Architect IV- AWS Migration Specialist

Silver Spring, MD

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

8+ years exp

GAMA-1 Technologies is seeking a Cloud Architect IV specializing in AWS migration. The role involves ensuring security and compliance in cloud migrations, serving as a technical authority on AWS best practices, and architecting solutions that meet business needs while optimizing costs.

Cloud SecurityEnterprise SoftwareInformation TechnologySoftware

Growth Opportunities

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Ensure security and compliance standards are maintained throughout the migration lifecycle and in the target AWS environment

Serve as the technical authority on AWS best practices for cloud migration, optimization, and modernization

Apply technical knowledge and customer insights to create a modernization roadmap and architect solutions to meet business and IT needs, ensuring technical viability of new projects and successful deployments, orchestrating key resources and infusing key infrastructure technologies

Develop and implement automation scripts and tools to streamline the migration process

Drive cost optimization by recommending rightsizing of resources and leveraging Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, and other AWS cost management features

Develops architecture solutions and evaluates alternatives for private, public and hybrid cloud models, including IaaS, PaaS, and other cloud services

Use architectural design principles to develop robust, efficient, and secure cloud solutions based on customer requirements

Architect, engineer, and deploy/provision secure and robust cloud services that include IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS and support service quality, outage management, subscription management, correlation of usage, and charges, and cost-efficient solution architecture

Develops architectural strategies/solutions to ensure application high availability in both hybrid (on-premise / cloud) and fully cloud hosted applications to provide an ‘always on’ experience

Acts as a subject matter expert for cloud end-to-end architecture, including current and future providers, networking, provisioning, and management

Document technical designs, migration runbooks, and operational procedures

Collaborate with development and operations teams to refactor and modernize applications to take full advantage of cloud-native services (e.g., containers, serverless)

Provides technical expertise in the diagnosis and resolution of an issue, including the determination and provision of workaround solution or escalation to owners

Ensures delivered solutions meets technical and functional/non-functional performance requirements within

Evaluate, design, and implement solutions for migrating on-premise applications to cloud hosting solutions

Use standardized process for mapping business needs to available cloud technology options, including assessment of risks and possible mitigations

Mentor junior team members and provide technical guidance throughout the project lifecycle

Develop tools and documentation to enable the support organizations to resolve customer issues, including complex technical scenarios dealing with the cloud architecture

Qualification

AWSCloud migrationCloud architectureCost optimizationIaaSPaaSCloud securityAutomation scriptingNetworkingAnalytical skillsClient-facing experienceCoding languagesCommunicationMentoring

Required

Bachelor of Science in Systems Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent technical degree or equivalent relevant experience

8+ years of experience with one or more CSP's and relevant certifications

Proven experience designing and deploying large-scale cloud systems and applications

Strong experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Strong, demonstrable experience with AWS Migration Hub and associated services (e.g., AWS Application Migration Service/MGN, AWS Database Migration Service/DMS)

Proven ability to implement and manage migration wave planning, including discovery and dependency mapping

Expertise in cost optimization, performance tuning, and security hardening in the AWS cloud environment

Hands-on experience with cloud security, networking, and governance

Experience with cloud cost management and optimization strategies

Experience using coding languages

Experience architecting and building scalable, automated infrastructure

Experience in large-scale enterprise IT environments

Experience in a consultative, client-facing consulting role

Understanding of load balancing, geo-redundancy, CDN, and VPN technologies

Knowledge of Cloud Architecture patterns and strategies (including IaaS, PaaS, Security, Compute, Storage and networking)

Functional knowledge of Infrastructure as Code

Excellent written, verbal, and analytical skills

Preferred

Experience with 'Serverless' systems

Relevant AWS certifications or other cloud platform certifications are strongly preferred and considered a significant differentiator

Experience migrating large-scale data platforms, analytics systems, or high-performance computing workloads

Experience migrating large-scale data platforms or high-performance computing workloads

Company

GAMA-1 Technologies

Gama-1 Technologies deliver cloud, cybersecurity, enterprise solutions, software engineering, IT operations and management services.

Founded in 2006

Greenbelt, Maryland, USA

201-500 employees

https://www.gama1tech.com

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