Technical Architect – Platform, Migration Specialist, VMWare
Quantiphi
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Canada
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About the role
- Lead the delivery of advanced solutions in Application Development, Platform Engineering, Data Engineering, Analytics, and Machine Learning for our clients.
- Enabling clients to leverage the full potential of cloud capabilities through workload migration from on-premise datacenter environments to AWS.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in platform engineering
- AWS Cloud Migration (EC2, EBS, VPCs, Migration Hub, MGN)
- VMware environment assessment & migration planning.
- Wave planning, dependency analysis, stakeholder engagement.
- Strong AWS architecture, security, and compliance knowledge.
- Cloud Migration Expertise: Understanding of different Migration approaches (Rs) with recent experience.
- Experience with on-prem VMware/other platform based Virtual Machine Lift and Shift (REHOST) migration to AWS EC2 instance based architectures.
- Previous work experience with tools like Cloud Endure, Double-Take, AWS Migration Hub, AWS Application Migration Service (MGN), AWS Server Migration Service (SMS), and AWS Database Migration Service (DMS).
- Good to have understanding of Database servers.
- Expertise in AWS services, including EC2, S3, auto-scaling, Landing Zone, and Control Tower.
- Proficiency in using AWS Migration Evaluator and Portfolio Assessment tools to analyze migration strategies.
- Well-versed in service-oriented architecture and cloud-based web services architecture, design patterns, and frameworks.
- Good understanding of Windows or Linux OS.
- Experience with troubleshooting Linux/Windows OS issues while migrating.
- Strong knowledge of cloud-related services such as compute, storage, network, and messaging (e.g., SNS, SQS).
- Good to have skills: Familiarity on-prem VMware ecosystem such as vSphere, vCenter, ESX, NSX.
- Familiarity with vMotion, VM Export/Import and integrating with AWS.
- Skills in monitoring cloud infrastructure and application performance using tools like Amazon CloudWatch.
- Experience in optimizing database queries and application performance following migration.
- Relevant certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer).
- Experience with relational SQL, NoSQL databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis).
- Ability to build and manage container hosting platforms using Docker, Kubernetes, AWS EKS.
- Familiarity with systems management and automation tools like Puppet, Chef, and Ansible.
- Experience working in an Agile and DevOps environment.
Benefits
- Make an impact at one of the world’s fastest-growing AI-first digital engineering companies.
- Upskill and discover your potential as you solve complex challenges in cutting-edge areas of technology alongside passionate, talented colleagues.
- Work where innovation happens - work with disruptive innovators in a research-focused organization with 60+ patents filed across various disciplines.
- Stay ahead of the curve—immerse yourself in breakthrough AI, ML, data, and cloud technologies and gain exposure working with Fortune 500 companies.
- Ample opportunities to learn, grow and interact with colleagues from varied experience and backgrounds around the globe.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
AWS Cloud MigrationPlatform EngineeringData EngineeringMachine LearningCloud Migration ExpertiseService-oriented architectureRelational SQL databasesNoSQL databasesContainer hosting platformsTroubleshooting Linux/Windows OS
Soft Skills
Stakeholder engagementDependency analysisStrong communication skillsOrganizational skillsLeadership skills
Certifications
AWS Certified Solutions ArchitectAWS Certified DevOps Engineer