Cloud Transformation Architect

Spencer Stuart is one of the world’s leading executive search consulting firms, placing C-Level and Board of Directors in the most successful companies across the globe.

All of the benefits of an early stage startup without the long hours and risk of evaporating funding. Come join a ground floor opportunity to help drive a firm-wide strategic migration from VWware to the AWS cloud. Leverage your VWware expertise while joining a team led by an AWS Certified Solution Architect that will provide training and real world, hands-on opportunities - day one, and be afforded the time and guidance to expand your AWS knowledge. This is a ground floor opportunity with a rock solid private firm.

* Build and deploy VWware virtual machines & AWS EC2 based solutions * Architect AWS solutions for cloud migration of custom and enterprise applications. * Automate provisioning of cloud infrastructure to support ops & development organizations. * Develop, modify, support and maintain AWS based infrastructure * Identify and adopt best practices, architectural solution patterns, and new technologies to address current and future needs. * Support the on-prem virtualization team * Communicate architectural information to non-technical audiences

* 4-5 + years VWware 5.x hands-on experience with large deployments including planning, building, and deploying workloads * 2+ year hands-on experience with Amazon Web Services. * 1+ years Configuration Management Automation (Chef, Ansible, Puppet, SaltStack) / Infrastructure as Code. * Solution architecture experience migrating both custom built and enterprise apps to AWS. * Experienced with Linux distros and Windows (2008/2012) based workloads * Experience and/or demonstrated interest in at least 3 of the following AWS services: VPC, CloudFormation, CLI, EC2, ELB, RDS, CloudWatch, CloudFront, Route53 * VWware 5.x & AWS experience * Solid understanding of various methods to back-up hosts and virtual machines as well as DR strategies, HA, SAN snapshots, LUN replication, etc. * Hands-on experience with large Virtual Machine deployments * Proven implementation experience with all features of VWware including vMotion, HA, DRS, vSwitch design, SRM, advanced performance troubleshooting, command line utilities, working knowledge of the VMFS file system (including configuration and management), creating clones, images and templates, resource allocation, resource pools, and system monitoring * Ability to implement VWware's Virtual Switch and vNetwork Distributed Switch technology; Server-side configuration to consume port aggregation, NIC teaming/bonding, VLAN trunking, port groups, etc, and Cisco Nexus 1000V * Solid understanding of SAN technology and how vSphere is implemented with shared storage (e.g. iSCSI, NFS) strategies for performance and optimization across logical and physical network topologies **Preferred Qualifications** * VWware certified professional * AWS Certified * Experience and/or interest in developing Cloud Native Architectures. * Experience designing configuration management solutions to enable rapid deployment of new stacks. * Build and maintain a CI environment for building, testing, and deploying releases * Modern CI technology (Git, Jenkins, etc…) * Familiarity with either Python, and/or Powershell, PowerCLI scripting languages * Familiarity with technical infrastructure services such as web, app, and db servers. * Awareness of API based architectures, SOA, and messaging. * Awareness of mobile based architectures * Working within a DevOps practice / CALMS principles * Active in technical communities, such as AWS, VMUG (VWware user group) and VWware forums or DevOps Meetups