Technical Architect - Platform - Migration Specialist - VMWare

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• 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.

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• 3x AWS AI/ML award wins.
• 3x NVIDIA Partner of the Year titles.
• Recognized Leaders by Gartner, Forrester, IDC, ISG, Everest Group and other leading analyst and independent research firms.
• 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.
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Role: Technical Architect - Platform Engineering
Experience Level:  10+ years
Employment type:  Full Time
Location: Remote (Canada/USA)

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.

Must-Have Skills:

• AWS Cloud Migration (EC2, EBS, VPCs, Migration Hub, MGN).
• VMware environment assessment & migration planning.
• Wave planning, dependency analysis, stakeholder engagement.
• Strong AWS architecture, security, and compliance knowledge.

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).

Good to have skills:

• 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:

• Make an impact at one of the world’s fastest-growing AI-first digital engineering companies.
• Upskill and discover your potential as you solve complex challenges in cutting-edge areas of technology alongside passionate, talented colleagues.
• Work where innovation happens - work with disruptive innovators in a research-focused organization with 60+ patents filed across various disciplines.
• Stay ahead of the curve—immerse yourself in breakthrough AI, ML, data, and cloud technologies and gain exposure working with Fortune 500 companies.