Highlights
Networking - VPC design, Direct Connect/VPN setup, security groups, NACLs, Route 53 DNS cutover, and hybrid connectivity between on-prem/Azure and AWS (Optional). AWS Application Migration Service (MGN) - Primary tool for lift-and-shift rehosting of VMware VMs and physical servers to EC2; experience with replication agents, launch templates, and cutover workflows.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Seattle, Minneapolis, WA |
| Industry | Computer/IT Services |
| Salary | $46–$50 |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Year Founded | 2009 |
| Website | http://www.tekwissen.com/ |
Description
Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide.
Title:Sr AWS Migration Engineer
Location:Seattle, WA /Minneapolis, MN
Duration: 12 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type:Onsite
Job Summary:
Core AWS Migration Skills
- AWS Migration Framework - Deep understanding of the Assess Mobilize Migrate & Modernize phases and the 7 R's migration strategies (Rehost, Replatform, Refactor, Repurchase, Retire, Retain, Relocate)
- AWS Application Migration Service (MGN) - Primary tool for lift-and-shift rehosting of VMware VMs and physical servers to EC2; experience with replication agents, launch templates, and cutover workflows
- AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) - Hands-on experience with DMS for SQL Server migrations, including Schema Conversion Tool (SCT) for heterogeneous migrations
- AWS Migration Hub - Familiarity with tracking migration progress across multiple tools and integrating partner tools
- VMware-to-AWS migration - Experience with AWS MGN, VM Import/Export, and optionally AWS Transform for VMware workloads
Infrastructure & IaC Skills
- Terraform - Strong proficiency for provisioning landing zones, VPCs, subnets, security groups, IAM roles, and target-state infrastructure on AWS
- AMI management - Creating, customizing, and managing Amazon Machine Images for standardized deployments (Optional)
- Networking - VPC design, Direct Connect/VPN setup, security groups, NACLs, Route 53 DNS cutover, and hybrid connectivity between on-prem/Azure and AWS (Optional)
Microsoft & Windows Workload Expertise
- NET application migration - Experience migrating .NET Framework apps to AWS (EC2 rehost or refactoring to .NET Core/Linux)
- SQL Server on AWS - Knowledge of SQL Server on EC2, Amazon RDS for SQL Server, and Aurora PostgreSQL as refactoring targets
- Windows Server administration - Managing Windows workloads on EC2, licensing (BYOL vs. License Included), Active Directory integration
- Azure-to-AWS migration - Experience with VM Import/Export from Azure VHDs, understanding Azure resource mapping to AWS equivalents, and handling Azure-specific dependencies (optional)
Database Migration Skills
- DMS configuration - Setting up replication instances, source/target endpoints, and migration tasks for SQL Server
- Schema conversion - Using AWS SCT for schema analysis and conversion when refactoring databases
- Database performance tuning - Post-migration optimization and validation
- Data validation - Ensuring data integrity during and after migration
Project & Methodology Skills
- Large-scale migration experience - Proven track record with 100+ server migrations
- Wave planning - Ability to group and sequence 115 applications into migration waves based on dependencies, complexity, and business criticality
- Application discovery & dependency mapping - Using AWS Application Discovery Service or similar tools to map application interdependencies
- Cutover planning - Designing rollback plans, minimizing downtime, and coordinating maintenance windows
- RACI and stakeholder management - Defining roles across customer, partner, and AWS teams
Certifications (Recommended)
- AWS Solutions Architect Associate (minimum) or Professional
- AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate
- AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional (preferred for refactoring work)
- Additional: Microsoft certifications for .NET/SQL Server are a plus
Experience Requirements
- Minimum 5 years infrastructure administration (Windows, networking, storage, virtualization)
- Minimum 2 3 years hands-on AWS migration delivery experience
- Experience with at least one datacenter exit or large-scale migration (100+ servers)
- Familiarity with MAP (Migration Acceleration Program) milestones and deliverables
Nice-to-Have Skills
- AWS Transform - For automated .NET modernization and VMware migration acceleration
- Containerization (ECS/EKS) - If any refactoring targets containers
- CI/CD pipelines - For modernized application deployment
- Cost optimization - Right-sizing EC2 instances, Reserved Instances/Savings Plans planning
- Security best practices - AWS Well-Architected Framework, IAM, encryption, compliance.
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.
About Company
WE THE TEKWISSEN PEOPLE
TekWissen offers you a broader portfolio of services, industry-leading solutions, and the meaningful innovations that give you greater flexibility and speed to respond to market dynamics, reduced costs and risk to improve enterprise performance, and increased productivity to enable growth.
To keep pace with global market demands, TekWissen keeps its finger on the pulse of change. Our organized approach to guiding a project from its inception to closure. Managing projects is becoming more and more important as we enter the digital era. To cope with the pace that this transition demands, a method is required to manage projects so they can yield quality work, while incorporating efficient use of time and resources.
Project involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.
It is important to perform quality planning during the Planning Process and should be done alongside the other project planning processes because changes in the quality will likely require changes in the other planning processes, or the desired product quality may require a detailed risk analysis of an identified problem. It is important to remember that quality should be planned, designed, then built in, not added on after the fact.
Capabilities and accomplishments in one TekWissen business enhance the opportunity for success in the others. Put simply, TekWissen's unique combination of attributes promotes success.