Overview
We are seeking a hands-on AWS Technical Lead for a 6-month contract focused on overseeing a major datacentre exit programme. The successful candidate will collaborate closely with engineering teams to facilitate the migration of production environments from traditional VMware infrastructure to AWS, ensuring that all migrations are completed efficiently and with minimal disruption. This role emphasizes technical leadership and decision-making in a fast-paced environment, rather than core strategic planning.
Responsibilities
- Take technical ownership of datacentre-to-AWS migrations across multiple production environments.
- Work directly with engineering teams to plan, build and execute migrations.
- Review existing infrastructure, tooling and automation to determine what is ready for production use.
- Improve, extend or rebuild automation where gaps are identified.
- Provide hands-on technical leadership across several parallel migration workstreams.
- Identify and resolve infrastructure, application, networking, licensing and dependency issues.
- Lead migration rehearsals and production cutovers, ensuring minimal service disruption.
- Escalate technical and delivery blockers clearly to senior stakeholders.
Requirements
- Strong hands-on AWS engineering experience within complex production environments.
- Proven experience delivering datacentre-to-cloud migrations.
- Previous technical ownership of migrations from discovery and planning through to cutover.
- Hands-on experience with Terraform, Ansible or equivalent automation tools.
- Strong understanding of networking, DNS, access, data movement and rollback planning.
- Experience migrating business-critical production applications with strict availability requirements.
- Strong troubleshooting skills across infrastructure and application dependencies.
- Clear communication with engineers, delivery teams and senior stakeholders.