Job Description -

Role: AWS Architect

Duration: 12 Months

Location: Remote - California

MOI: Skype

Primarily Remote with the expectation that the contractor be on-site (Davis CA) to attend any in-person meetings and support activities for assigned projects as needed. The contractor responsible for any travel expenses to be on-site, which will be minimal at this time. Travel time would not be considered work time

Job Description:
Information & Educational Technology (IET) has a need for (1) AWS VMC/EC2 Migration and AWS Architect.
AWS VMC/EC2 Migration and AWS Architect

Job Summary:
Under general supervision of the Data Center Services Manager, this position will be the lead architecture design and oversee the migration of 100 servers from on-prem vmware environment to AWS VMC/EC2 with an eye towards moving all guests to EC2 in the future. Will develop and implement networking to AWS extending our RFC 1918 space using AWS networking. This includes network configuration of VMC, AWS VPC, and transit gateway. Will make recommendations on and implement AWS firewalls and load balancers. This position will be our AWS expert with the highest level of practical, hands-on AWS networking, migration, and VPC experience able to troubleshoot complex network and AWS issues.

Will be on-call for AWS and networking issues.
Essential Responsibilities:

• 60% Coordinate and perform migration of 100 existing vmware guests to AWS VMC/EC2.
• 20% Architect and manage support topologies for load balancing and Firewalls.
• 10% Architect and implement AWS networking.
• 10% Build and manage AWS VPCs

AWS architect will have primary responsibly for:

• AWS VMC instance (must have strong vmware foundation)
• AWS VPCs
• AWS transit gateway along with all networking to gateway
• Migration of services from on-prem vmware to AWS VMC
• AWS storage management
• AWS DR and backups
• AWS firewalls and load balancers
• Build out of new EC2 instances.
• Design and build of all AWS VPCs
• Management of networking on Transit gateway
• Design of redundant networking to AWS Transit gateway
• Migration of 100 virtual servers to VMC
• Must work in an environment with strong change control.
• ServiceNow experience a plus.

Operational experience performing those tasks on those platforms highly desirable.
Qualifications: Minimum Qualifications

• Experience building VPCs including inter-VPC networking.
• Experience building VMs in VMC and EC2
• Experience managing Transit Gateway and routing private IP space to AWS

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Fortinet firewalls.
• Experience with F5 load balancers.
• Experience with Route53