AWS MIGRATION ENGINEER
We have an excellent opportunity for an AWS Migration Engineer to join our AWS services team and play a key role in supporting our continued growth plans. These plans aim to solidify our position as a leading global Services partner with AWS. Migration Engineers are expected to routinely act as a member of a team, managing and delivering large scale, and complex workload migration projects
Working in close collaboration with the Regional Service Centre and wider in-country AWS teams, the core responsibilities of the role include, but not limited to, the following:
Activities
- Undertake individual project assignments or work on a project as part of a larger team
- Assist Technical Consultants with migration designs and approach
- Ensure migration assignments are undertaken consistently and with quality
- Produce and update assignment documentation as required
- Ensure that hand over to relevant support organisation is successfully completed
- Provide technical support as requested, for internal and external customers
Personal Skills Development
- Keep up-to-date with current and future technologies, products and strategies
- Build a solid skills foundation in chosen subject matter
- Build and enhance relationships with peers
Qualifications and Experience
An AWS Migration Engineer should also have the following qualifications and experience:
Required Qualifications
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect or AWS Certified SysOps Administrator certification.
Desirable Qualifications
- AWS Professional Certification
Expected Experience (Migration and Transformation)
- 2+ years on AWS cloud environments
- AWS Optimisation Licensing and Assessment (OLA)
- AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP)
- Compute services (e.g. EC2, containers, serverless)
- Monitoring/Observability tools (e.g. CloudWatch, Prometheus, DataDog)
- VPCs/Networking
- Migrations from VMware and/or Azure
- Strong experience with migration tools and services like AWS Migration Hub, AWS Database Migration Service (DMS), and AWS Server Migration Service (SMS).
- Experience with networking, security, and compliance in cloud environments.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Experience with hybrid cloud environments and multi-cloud strategies.
- Familiarity with DevOps practices and tools such as Jenkins, Terraform, and Ansible.
Knowledge and Skills:
- Two or more years of experience in a technical engineering type role
- Excellent communicator both verbally and written (both local and English)
- Experienced, mature, influential, assertive and diplomatic
- Able to operate independently or as part of a larger team
- Industry leading knowledge of chosen subject matter
- A flexible approach to work and prepared ‘go the extra mile’ to exceed customer expectations
- Applies knowledge and skills through handling complex problems beyond own area of expertise
- English language proficiency is essential
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