Delivery Tech Lead – AWS Cloud Infrastructure, Migrations

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of the technical strategy for a specific engagement workstream and drive it towards an agreed target state.

• Collaborate with customer technical leadership regarding architecture, sequencing, and risk management.

• Evaluate designs, code, and infrastructure as code, establishing engineering standards.

• Make and document architectural decisions, trade-offs, and decisions that can be deferred.

• Create project plans with realistic milestones and dependencies alongside the Engagement Manager and customer.

• Ensure proper staffing levels are maintained and escalate any skill gaps as necessary.

• Guide consultants in areas of technical expertise, delivery discipline, and customer interaction skills.

• Ensure engagement quality and completion by tracking milestones, removing obstacles for teams, and leading remediation efforts.

• Coordinate technical execution with partner consultants and vendor teams within an Agile delivery framework.

• Contribute to AWS and partner resource utilization and the development of new delivery offerings.

• Design and implement AWS foundational environments utilizing Control Tower and Landing Zone Accelerator.

• Define and enact AWS multi-account architecture, including Organizations, OUs, account vending, SCPs, centralized logging, and security tools.

• Implement IAM, Identity Center, guardrails, and security baselines.

• Lead discovery processes for on-premises environments, dependency mapping, right-sizing, and migration wave planning.

• Choose and drive the migration strategies of rehosting or replatforming based on workload requirements.

• Supervise the replication of VMware and on-premises VMs into EC2, including image conversion and OS/driver remediation.

• Direct the replatforming efforts to RDS, ALB/NLB, and CloudFront.

• Manage hybrid connectivity design using Direct Connect, Site-to-Site VPN, Transit Gateway, DNS, and Active Directory integration.

• Oversee storage and database migrations while ensuring data integrity.

• Establish standards for Terraform, AWS CDK, pipeline automation, and operational readiness.

• Generate design documents, migration runbooks, diagrams, decision records, and hand-over guides.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 10 years of experience in designing and operating infrastructure.

• More than 3 years of experience leading a technical workstream in customer-facing engagements.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.

• Practical experience with AWS in a production environment.

• Experience in setting engagement technical strategies and coordinating with customer technical leadership.

• Proven experience in building AWS foundational environments utilizing Control Tower, Landing Zone Accelerator, AWS Organizations, and multi-account architecture.

• Demonstrated experience in cloud migration, particularly large-scale, multi-wave migrations is a strong advantage.

• Practical knowledge of rehost and replatform migration strategies.

• Experience with AWS Transform for VMware or substantial knowledge in this area is highly desirable.

• Hands-on experience with AWS Migration Hub, AWS Application Migration Service (MGN), and VM Import/Export.

• Strong understanding of AWS networking fundamentals, including VPC design, routing, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect/VPN, and DNS.

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and AWS CDK.

• Proficiency in at least one scripting language: Python, Bash, or PowerShell.

• Current capability to review code and Infrastructure as Code.

• AWS certification is required.

• AWS Solutions Architect – Professional or DevOps Engineer – Professional certification is preferred.

• Must be eligible to work in the US for any employer.

• Must disclose whether current or potential employment visa sponsorship is required.

🏝️ Benefits

• Annual base salary ranging from $175,000 to $215,000 USD, exclusive of discretionary bonuses.

• Commitment to employee growth and development.

• Supportive servant leadership and management to empower employees and eliminate obstacles.

• A flat organizational structure offering opportunities to influence the technical roadmap and client success.

• Access to the latest technology and engagement in real-world problem-solving.

• A culture that encourages learning from mistakes as opportunities for growth.

• An equal employment opportunity workplace.