Technical Architect - VM ware

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About Quantiphi:

Quantiphi is an award-winning, AI-First digital engineering and consulting company focused on delivering high-impact Services and Solutions that help organizations solve what truly matters. We partner with enterprises to reimagine their businesses through intelligent, scalable, and transformative AI driving measurable outcomes at the very core of their operations.

Since our founding in 2013, Quantiphi has tackled some of the world’s most complex business challenges by combining deep industry expertise, disciplined cloud and data engineering practices, and cutting-edge applied AI research. Our work is rooted in delivering accelerated, quantifiable business value, not just technology for technology’s sake.

Headquartered in Boston, Quantiphi is a global organization with 4,000+ professionals serving clients across key industry verticals, including BFSI, Healthcare & Life Sciences, CPG, MFG, TME etc. As an Elite and Premier partner to leading cloud and AI platforms such as NVIDIA, Google Cloud, AWS, and Snowflake, we build and deliver enterprise-grade AI services and solutions that create real-world impact. 

We’ve been recognized with:

• 21x Google Cloud Partner of the Year awards in the last 8 years.
• 3x AWS AI/ML award wins.
• 3x NVIDIA Partner of the Year titles.
• 2x Snowflake Partner of the Year awards.
• We have also garnered top analyst recognitions from Gartner, ISG, and Everest Group.
• We offer first-in-class industry solutions across Healthcare, Financial Services, Consumer Goods, Manufacturing, and more, powered by cutting-edge Generative AI and Agentic AI accelerators.
• We have been certified as a Great Place to Work for the third year in a row- 2021, 2022, 2023.

Be part of a trailblazing team that’s shaping the future of AI, ML, and cloud innovation. 

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Role: Solution Architect - Vmware

Employment type: Full Time

Location: Remote (UK)

Description:

As a Solution Architect - Platform Engineering at Quantiphi, you will be instrumental in our Platform Engineering team, leading the delivery of advanced solutions in Application Development, Platform Engineering, Data Engineering, Analytics, and Machine Learning for our clients. This role requires experience in workload migration from on-premise datacenter environments to AWS, enabling clients to leverage the full potential of cloud capabilities.

Basic Qualifications:

• Proficiency in Architecting, deploying and maintaining AWS Cloud based infrastructure services [VPC, IAM, S3, Lambda, EC2, SQS, SSM, ASG, Cloudwatch, Cloudtrail, Boto3, Python, EKS, Shell Scripting, Automation, SNS, SQS, KMS, EKS, ECR, RDS. etc]. Good Understanding of medium to large Enterprise architectures, Multi-Account AWS setup.

Cloud Migration Expertise:

• Understanding of different Migration approaches (Rs) with recent experience. 
• Experience with on-prem VMware/other platform based Virtual Machine Lift and Shift (REHOST) migration to AWS EC2 instance based architectures
• Previous work experience with tools like Cloud Endure, Double-Take, AWS Migration Hub, AWS Application Migration Service (MGN), AWS Server Migration Service (SMS), and AWS Database Migration Service (DMS). Good to have understanding of Database servers.
• Expertise in AWS services, including EC2, S3, auto-scaling, Landing Zone, and Control Tower
• Proficiency in using AWS Migration Evaluator and Portfolio Assessment tools to analyze migration strategies
• Well-versed in service-oriented architecture and cloud-based web services architecture, design patterns, and frameworks
• Good understanding of Windows or Linux OS. Experience with troubleshooting  Linux/Windows OS issues while migrating. Good to have handled Database server migrations also. 
• Strong knowledge of cloud-related services such as compute, storage, network, and messaging (e.g., SNS, SQS).

Networking Skills:

• Proficiency in setting up and managing hybrid cloud networks, including VPN and AWS Direct Connect.
• Experience with configuring Application Load Balancers (ALB) for effective traffic management.

Automation and Deployment:

• Proficient in scripting languages such as Python and Bash for automating migration tasks and processes.
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools, including AWS CloudFormation and Terraform.
• Strong understanding of IaC practices using tools like Terraform, CDK, and CloudFormation Templates.
• Experience in automating development and testing processes through CI/CD pipelines using tools like Git, Jenkins, SonarQube, Artifactory, and Docker containers.

Security and Compliance:

• Strong understanding of AWS security best practices, including setting up IAM roles and policies for secure access.
• Knowledge of compliance requirements relevant to data handling and migration processes.

Configuration Management / Scripting and Programming:

• Hands-on experience with scripting and programming languages such as Bash, Python, Core Java, and Scala. 
• Previous work experience on Configuration management and using tools like Ansible, Chef, Puppet, AWS SSM, etc. 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiarity on-prem VMware ecosystem such as vSphere, vCenter, ESX, NSX.
• Familiarity with vMotion, VM Export/Import and integrating with AWS.
• Skills in monitoring cloud infrastructure and application performance using tools like Amazon CloudWatch.
• Experience in optimizing database queries and application performance following migration.
• Relevant certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer).
• Experience with relational SQL, NoSQL databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis).
• Ability to build and manage container hosting platforms using Docker, Kubernetes, AWS EKS.
• Familiarity with systems management and automation tools like Puppet, Chef, and Ansible.
• Experience working in an Agile and DevOps environment.

What is in it for you:

• Be part of the fastest-growing AI-first digital transformation and engineering company in the world.
• Be a leader of an energetic team of highly dynamic and talented individuals.
• Exposure to working with fortune 500 companies and innovative market disruptors.
• Exposure to the latest technologies related to artificial intelligence and machine learning, data and cloud.