Senior Solution Architect-AWS

<p><b>Job Tittle: Senior Solution Architect- AWS</b></p><p><b>Job Location: Chennai </b></p><p><b>Job Descriptions: </b>We are looking for an experienced AWS Solutions Architect – Delivery to join our growing team. In this role, you will be responsible for leading the end-to-end technical delivery of cloud solutions on AWS — from initial on-premises infrastructure assessment and discovery through to architecture design, migration execution, and post-migration optimization. You will work closely with enterprise customers to evaluate their existing data center environments, build business cases, and deliver scalable, secure, and cost-effective cloud architectures.</p><p class="MsoBodyText"></p><p><br /></p><p><b><u>Key Responsibilities: </u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:3pt;"><b><u> Assessment & Discovery</u></b></p><ul><li style="margin-bottom:3pt;"><span style="text-indent:-18pt;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;"> </span><span style="text-indent:-18pt;font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);">Conduct comprehensive assessments of customer on-premises datacenter environments including compute, storage, networking, and application dependencies</span></li><li style="margin-bottom:3pt;"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:10.5pt;text-indent:-18pt;">Perform infrastructure discovery using agentless and agent-based tools to collect configuration data, performance metrics, and network dependency mappings</span></li><li style="margin-bottom:3pt;"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:10.5pt;text-indent:-18pt;">Analyze existing workloads to determine cloud readiness, migration complexity, and optimal migration strategies (re-host, re-platform, re-factor, re-architect)</span></li><li style="margin-bottom:3pt;"><span style="text-indent:-18pt;font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);">Develop directional business cases including TCO analysis, projected cloud costs, right-sizing recommendations, and ROI projections</span></li><li style="margin-bottom:3pt;"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:10.5pt;text-indent:-18pt;">Assess application interdependencies, data flows, and integration patterns to define migration wave planning</span></li><li style="margin-bottom:3pt;"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:10.5pt;text-indent:-18pt;">Evaluate existing licensing models and recommend optimization strategies (BYOL, License Included, etc.)</span></li><li style="margin-bottom:3pt;"><span style="text-indent:-18pt;font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);">Document current-state architecture, identify technical debt, and recommend modernization opportunities</span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:3pt;"> </p><p class="SubHeading"><b><u>Solution Design & Delivery</u></b></p><ul><li><span style="text-indent:-18pt;font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);">Design and architect highly available, scalable, fault-tolerant, and cost-optimized solutions on AWS</span></li><li><span style="text-indent:-18pt;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;"> </span><span style="text-indent:-18pt;font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);">Lead the technical delivery of AWS cloud migration, modernization, and transformation projects for enterprise clients</span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:10.5pt;text-indent:-18pt;">Translate business requirements into well-architected technical solutions leveraging AWS services</span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:10.5pt;text-indent:-18pt;">Own the solution design and delivery throughout the project lifecycle — from discovery and planning to implementation and handover</span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:10.5pt;text-indent:-18pt;">Collaborate with project managers, delivery leads, and cross-functional teams to ensure smooth execution of engagements</span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:10.5pt;text-indent:-18pt;">Provide technical guidance and mentorship to delivery engineers and junior architects</span></li><li><span style="text-indent:-18pt;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;"> </span><span style="text-indent:-18pt;font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);">Conduct architecture reviews, define best practices, and ensure adherence to AWS Well-Architected Framework principles</span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:10.5pt;text-indent:-18pt;">Develop infrastructure-as-code (IaC) templates, reference architectures, and reusable delivery artifacts</span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:10.5pt;text-indent:-18pt;">Engage in pre-sales activities including solution scoping, effort estimation, and technical proposal development</span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:10.5pt;text-indent:-18pt;">Manage technical risks and escalations during project delivery</span></li></ul><p><b><u><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:10.5pt;text-indent:-18pt;"><br /></span>On-Premises Datacenter & Assessment Expertise</u></b></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:36pt;text-indent:-18pt;"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#222222;">Virtualization Platforms: Must to Have</span></b></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:54pt;text-indent:-18pt;">–<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;"> </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#222222;">Strong hands-on experience with VMware vSphere/vCenter, ESXi, Hyper-V, and related hypervisor technologies</span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:36pt;text-indent:-18pt;">•<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;"> </span><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#222222;">Physical Infrastructure: Good to Have</span></b></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:54pt;text-indent:-18pt;">–<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;"> </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#222222;">Knowledge of enterprise server hardware (Dell, HP, Cisco UCS), SAN/NAS storage (NetApp, EMC, Pure Storage), and datacenter networking (Cisco, Juniper, F5)</span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:36pt;text-indent:-18pt;">•<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;"> </span><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#222222;">Operating Systems: Must to Have</span></b></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:54pt;text-indent:-18pt;">–<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;"> </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#222222;">Deep expertise in Windows Server and Linux (RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu) administration in enterprise environments</span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:36pt;text-indent:-18pt;">•<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;"> </span><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#222222;">CMDB & ITSM Tools: Must to Have</span></b></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:54pt;text-indent:-18pt;">–<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;"> </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#222222;">Familiarity with ServiceNow, BMC Helix, or similar CMDB tools for asset inventory and dependency mapping</span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:36pt;text-indent:-18pt;">•<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;"> </span><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#222222;">Monitoring & Management: Must to Have</span></b></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:54pt;text-indent:-18pt;">–<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;"> </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#222222;">Experience with enterprise monitoring tools such as SolarWinds, Nagios, Zabbix, Datadog, or PRTG</span> </p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:36pt;text-indent:-18pt;">•<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;"> </span><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#222222;">Networking: Must to Have</span></b></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:54pt;text-indent:-18pt;">–<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;"> </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#222222;">Strong understanding of enterprise networking — VLANs, firewalls, load balancers, DNS, DHCP, MPLS, SD-WAN, and VPN technologies</span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:36pt;text-indent:-18pt;">•<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;"> </span><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#222222;">Databases: Good to Have</span></b></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:54pt;text-indent:-18pt;">–<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;"> </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#222222;">Knowledge of on-premises database platforms — Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and their migration considerations</span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:36pt;text-indent:-18pt;">•<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;"> </span><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#222222;">Middleware & Applications: Must to Have</span></b></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:54pt;text-indent:-18pt;">–<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;"> </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#222222;">Understanding of enterprise middleware (WebLogic, WebSphere, Tomcat, IIS) and application server environments</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:3pt;"> </p><p class="SubHeading"><b><u>Assessment Tools & Services</u></b></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:36pt;text-indent:-18pt;">•<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;"> </span><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#222222;">AWS Migration Evaluator (formerly TSO Logic):</span></b></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:54pt;text-indent:-18pt;">–<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;"> </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#222222;">Experience building directional business cases, right-sizing analysis, and projected cloud cost modelling</span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:36pt;text-indent:-18pt;">•<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;"> </span><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#222222;">AWS Application Discovery Service:</span></b></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:54pt;text-indent:-18pt;">–<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;"> </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#222222;">Proficiency with both agentless (VMware connector) and agent-based discovery for collecting server configuration, performance, and dependency data</span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:36pt;text-indent:-18pt;">•<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;"> </span><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#222222;">AWS Migration Hub:</span></b></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:54pt;text-indent:-18pt;">–<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;"> </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#222222;">Experience using Migration Hub for centralized tracking of migration progress and assessment data aggregation</span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:36pt;text-indent:-18pt;">•<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;"> </span><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#222222;">AWS Transform Assessment:</span></b></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:54pt;text-indent:-18pt;">–<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;"> </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#222222;">Familiarity with automated assessment capabilities for cost optimization and migration planning</span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:36pt;text-indent:-18pt;">•<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;"> </span><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#222222;">Third-Party Discovery Tools:</span></b></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:54pt;text-indent:-18pt;">–<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;"> </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#222222;">Experience with tools like RVTools, CloudAmize, Movere, Flexera, Device42, or Lakeside for on-premises inventory collection</span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:36pt;text-indent:-18pt;">•<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;"> </span><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#222222;">Data Collection Methods:</span></b></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:54pt;text-indent:-18pt;">–<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;"> </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#222222;">Ability to work with vCenter exports, SCCM data, CMDB extracts, and manual inventory data to build comprehensive assessments</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:3pt;"> </p><p class="SubHeading"><b><u>AWS Cloud Expertise</u></b></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:36pt;text-indent:-18pt;">•<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;"> </span><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#222222;">Experience:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#222222;"> 6+ years of hands-on experience in designing and delivering solutions on AWS</span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:36pt;text-indent:-18pt;">•<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;"> </span><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#222222;">AWS Certifications:</span></b></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:54pt;text-indent:-18pt;">–<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;"> </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#222222;">AWS Solutions Architect – Professional (required); additional certifications such as DevOps Engineer, Security Specialty, or Migration Specialty are preferred</span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:36pt;text-indent:-18pt;">•<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;"> </span><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#222222;">Core AWS Services:</span></b></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:54pt;text-indent:-18pt;">–<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;"> </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#222222;">Compute: EC2, Lambda, ECS/EKS, Auto Scaling</span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:54pt;text-indent:-18pt;">–<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;"> </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#222222;">Storage: S3, EBS, EFS, FSx, Storage Gateway, Glacier</span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:54pt;text-indent:-18pt;">–<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;"> </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#222222;">Networking: VPC, Direct Connect, Transit Gateway, Route 53, CloudFront, PrivateLink</span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:54pt;text-indent:-18pt;">–<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;"> </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#222222;">Database: RDS, DynamoDB, Aurora, Redshift, ElastiCache</span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:54pt;text-indent:-18pt;">–<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;"> </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#222222;">Security: IAM, KMS, WAF, GuardDuty, Security Hub, AWS Config</span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:54pt;text-indent:-18pt;">–<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;"> </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#222222;">Management: CloudFormation, CloudWatch, Systems Manager, Organizations, Control Tower (Landing Zone)</span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:54pt;text-indent:-18pt;">–<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;"> </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#222222;">Migration: AWS DMS, Application Migration Service (MGN), DataSync, Transfer Family, Snow Family</span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:54pt;text-indent:-18pt;">–<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;"> </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#222222;">Application Integration: SQS, SNS, Step Functions, EventBridge</span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:36pt;text-indent:-18pt;">•<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;"> </span><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#222222;">Infrastructure as Code:</span></b></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:54pt;text-indent:-18pt;">–<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;"> </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#222222;">Proficiency in Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or AWS CDK</span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:36pt;text-indent:-18pt;">•<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;"> </span><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#222222;">DevOps & CI/CD:</span></b></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:54pt;text-indent:-18pt;">–<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;"> </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#222222;">Experience with CI/CD pipelines, containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), and automation tools</span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:36pt;text-indent:-18pt;">•<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;"> </span><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#222222;">Scripting/Programming:</span></b></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:54pt;text-indent:-18pt;">–<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;"> </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#222222;">Proficiency in Python, Bash, PowerShell, or similar scripting languages</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:3pt;"> <b><u>Delivery Experience</u></b></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:36pt;text-indent:-18pt;">•<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;"> </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#222222;">Demonstrated ability to lead end-to-end technical delivery engagements with enterprise customers</span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:36pt;text-indent:-18pt;">•<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;"> </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#222222;">Experience managing migration projects of 100+ servers across multiple waves</span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:36pt;text-indent:-18pt;">•<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;"> </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#222222;">Proven track record of building and presenting business cases to C-level stakeholders</span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:36pt;text-indent:-18pt;"> </p><div style="border:none;border-bottom:solid #2E75B6 1pt;padding:0cm 0cm 4pt 0cm;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8pt;border:none;padding:0cm;"> This role is for a <strong>Senior AWS Migration & Delivery Architect</strong> who can <strong>assess an enterprise's existing infrastructure, design the target AWS solution, lead the migration from on-premises to AWS, and ensure successful end-to-end Delivery.</strong></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><u>Preferred Qualifications</u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal">• AWS Migration Specialty certification</p><p class="MsoNormal">• Experience with multi-cloud environments (Azure, GCP) in addition to AWS</p><p class="MsoNormal">• Familiarity with compliance frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, MAS-TRM)</p><p class="MsoNormal">• Prior experience in a consulting/professional services or systems integrator environment</p><p class="MsoNormal">• Exposure to FinOps practices and AWS cost optimization strategies</p><p class="MsoNormal">• Strong understanding of hybrid cloud architectures and connectivity patterns (AWS Outposts, Direct Connect)</p><p class="MsoNormal">• Experience with mainframe or legacy system migration assessments</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8pt;border:none;padding:0cm;"><strong> </strong></p><p class="MsoNormal">• Familiarity with containerization assessment tools (AWS App2Container)</p></div>