Technical Consultant - AWS

Responsibilities:

• Implementing Cloud Resources in AWS including.
• Responsible for day-to-day operations and administration of cloud services.
• Respond to escalated customer service issues using email, phone, and web conference technology.
• Work within a regional support team covering 24x7x365 cloud operations
• Able to write effective handoff from shift-to-shift for cloud support issues.
• Provide expertise in one or many of the following cloud and virtualization products: AWS, Azure, VMware
• Responsible for general health and maintenance of cloud service offerings.
• Provide database design, development, and maintenance services
• Know-How on Database Migrations to public cloud IaaS and PaaS, including Assessments, Planning and Migration Hands-On.
• Work on a variety of challenging and complex problems in a fast-paced production environment, both managing the production databases and directly supporting the development teams
• Responsible for database capacity planning and management, performance tuning and system optimization.
• Design for high availability, and establish disaster recovery capabilities.
• Monitor, measure, report, analyze and systematically improve database system performance and uptime.
• Experience performance tuning MSSQL and MySQL databases for a variety of environments and user requirements.
• Significant experience with MySQL and MSSQL replication, configuration, and management.
• Executing backup and recovery of the database as and when required.
• Assist developers with complex query tuning and schema refinement.
• Conducting Cloud Migrations.
• Facilitate cloud migration preparations.
• Conduct Assessments and Report Creation.
• Coordinating cloud migration (application owners, vendor support, customer infrastructure support, etc).
• Knowledge on AWS Migrate and AWS Site Recovery, Cloud Endure, Database Migration.
• Conduct cutovers.
• Facilitate testing.
• Facilitate handover
• Facilitate rollbacks/rescheduling if required.
• Migration Status reporting.
• Document deliverables.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, electrical or computer engineering or related degree preferred.
• Experience :6 + yrs, 3 yrs into Cloud working on Devops tools. 
• Working knowledge in the following areas of AWS.
• Strong knowledge of UNIX (Linux, Solaris) and Windows systems.
• Identity (Authentication & Authorization).
• Compute (VMs, ScaleSets, Cloud Services - Worker/Web).
• Storage (Blob, Files, Disk).
• Networking (Load Balancer, Application Gateway, DNS, VPN)
• Security (Firewalls, Security Center, WAF, IDS, IPS, NSG).
• SQL Server IaaS, SQL MI & DBaaS.
• SQL Migration, Tools, and Management.
• DB Administrator.
• Authoring AWS Resource Manager (ARM) and Cloud Formation Templates
• Strong knowledge and exposure working across various services and components in AWS
• Knowledge on Cloud Architectures - IaaS, PaaS and SaaS, Containers.
• Database Administration and Migration.
• Strong oral and written communication skills in English
• Communicates clearly and tactfully.
• Ensures information is accurate and complete.
• Motivated and quick learner.
• Willingness mentor, teach, share knowledge with team members and other operational teams.
• Microsoft Certified: AWS Administrator Associate (AZ-103).
• AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate.
• EX200: Red Hat Certified System Administrator.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate.
• Microsoft Certified: AWS Solutions Architect Expert.