Job Title: AWS Migration Architect
Location: Hybrid Dallas TX
Job Type: Contractor
Experience: 10 Years in IT Infrastructure Cloud Architecture and Migration Programs
Job Summary
We are seeking an experienced AWS Migration Architect to lead the cloud migration strategy workload assessment and modernization of a large-scale on-premises IT landscape to AWS and Azure. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in cloud architecture AWS/Azure migration frameworks and assessment methodologies along with strong collaboration and leadership skills to engage with business and technical stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities
Discovery & Assessment: Lead a comprehensive discovery and assessment exercise to capture detailed data about all existing on-prem workloads.
Underlying hardware and software dependencies
Collaborate with internal teams and stakeholders to validate workload documentation and fill knowledge gaps.
Workload Classification: Retire Remediate Modernize Transform Candidates for re-platforming or complete re-architecture
Work closely with stakeholders to finalize classification
Cloud Destination Planning: Recommend suitable AWS and Azure service architectures and deployment models for each workload.
Define detailed cloud consumption forecasts to support and Budget estimation and optimization
Phased migration roadmaps and sequencing strategies
Migration Strategy and Execution Planning: Create high-level and detailed migration plans with timelines and resource allocations.
Define landing zones and design migration waves based on business impact and criticality.
Align migration strategy with AWSs best practices (e.g. AWS Migration Acceleration Program - MAP).
Innovation and Tooling: Leverage Generative AI (GenAI) tools to accelerate discovery especially for undocumented applications and codebases.
Recommend automation tools and practices for efficient workload discovery and migration.
Required Skills & Qualifications
10 years of experience in IT infrastructure and cloud solutions with 5 years focused on cloud migration (AWS preferred).
Proven track record of delivering large-scale workload assessments and cloud migrations.
Expertise in AWS architecture and migration frameworks (MAP AWS CAF).
Deep understanding of re-hosting re-platforming refactoring and retiring workloads.
Familiarity with GenAI tools and code analysis platforms for application discovery.
Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
AWS Certifications preferred: AWS Solutions Architect Professional or equivalent.
Azure Architect
Desirable Skills
Experience with tools like AWS Migration Hub Application Discovery Service and third-party CMDBs.
Familiarity with multi-cloud environments (GCP) for comparative planning.
ITIL TOGAF or SAFe certifications are a plus.
Brillio is an equal opportunity employer to all regardless of age ancestry colour disability (mental and physical) exercising the right to family care and medical leave gender gender expression gender identity genetic information marital status medical condition military or veteran status national origin political affiliation race religious creed sex (includes pregnancy childbirth breastfeeding and related medical conditions) and sexual orientation.
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