AWS Cloud – Solution Architect
Rackspace
Being an experienced technologist with technical depth and breadth, aided with strong interpersonal skills, you will work directly with customers as part of a professional services delivery team helping to enable innovation through continuous delivery across technology stacks and creating robust solution designs that align to business goals. Your insight and experience will help our delivery teams build architectures and provide prescriptive guidance across network, storage, operating systems, virtualization, RDBMS & NoSQL databases, security, and automation. In addition, you will work with mid-tier technologies that include application integration, in-memory caches, security, and much more! The qualified AWS Cloud Architect will have demonstrated the ability to think strategically about businesses, create technical definitions around customer objectives in complex situations, develop solution strategies, motivate & mobilize resources, and deliver results. The ability to connect technology with measurable business value is a critical component to be successful in this role. We seek team members who are self-motivated, driven, collaborative, passionate about AWS Cloud and want to have a direct positive impact on our customer's business. Strong communication skills and emotional intelligence are also needed to help develop a team reporting to you.Job Duties: As the AWS Cloud Architect, you will be technically focused but also will understand and implement business planningBe the technical liaison between customers and engineering resourcesProvide tactical scope and work directly with the business representatives/customers to understand the requirements driving the need for a solution to be developedCommunicate effectively with both business and technical colleagues throughout the course of the projectEnsure that all the appropriate questions are asked and verify that nothing crucial to the success of the project is overlookedBe a AWS Cloud evangelist by educating a variety of customers on the value of AWSHelp customers transition to the cloud in a high-value migration approach that leverages best of breed designs and practices delivered in an agile modelWork with customers to enable a DevOps culture and modernize operations and release strategiesEstablish credibility and build impactful relationships with our customers to enable them to be cloud advocatesParticipate in deep architectural discussions to build confidence and ensure customer success when building new, or migrating existing, applications, software, and services on the AWS Cloud Platform.Conduct deep-dive “hands-on” education/training sessions to transfer knowledge to customers interested in AWS and to ensure our SAs are up to dateTraveling up to 25% of the time (When traveling continues)Requirements:Fluent, Bi-lingual (Spanish and English)2-3 years design & implementation experience with distributed applications2-3 years of experience in networking, infrastructure, or database architecturesStrong, in depth understanding and professional experience with AWS Cloud services and infrastructure"Hands on" experience with tooling and services related to cloud Automation, IaC, and DevOps:o Terraform, Git (one or more: GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket), CICD pipelines (one or more: GitHub actions, GitLab CICD, Bitbucket pipelines, Jenkins, ArgoCD, Azure DevOps), K8S/Kubernetes, Docker, Ansible, AWS CLI, CloudFormation"Hands on" experience with tooling and services related to Large Cloud Migrations:o AWS MGN, AWS DMS/SCT, AWS DRS"Hands on" experience with tooling and services related to Database deployments and admin:o Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQLDemonstrated knowledge of software development tools and methodologieso Source code management: Gito Artifacts management (one or more): Artifactory, Nexus, S3, Blob storage, etco CICD (one or more: GitHub actions, GitLab CICD, Bitbucket pipelines, Jenkins, ArgoCD, Azure DevOps)Strong Presentation skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with executives, IT management, and developers.Excellent communication skills with an ability to right level conversationsDemonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quicklyDesired3-5+ years of experience in customer-facing software/technology or consulting3-3+ years of experience with “on-premises to cloud” migrations or IT transformations3+ years of experience architecting/operating solutions built on AWS (ideally) or AWS/AzureAWS Professional or Associate Cloud Architect certification and/or other AWS Cloud certificationsTechnical degree; Computer Science or related
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