Consultant - DevOps

DESCRIPTION

Are you an experienced hands-on Cloud and DevOps Architect who can assist our customers in designing, developing and re-architecting application and IT infrastructure to fully leverage the AWS Cloud? Do you like to work on a variety of cutting edge, business critical projects, at the forefront of cloud infrastructure, DevOps, and application development?
AWS Professional Services is looking for highly talented hands-on Cloud and DevOps Architects to assist our customers develop technical expertise and deliver meaningful business outcomes. Professional Services engage with customers across EMEA. This is an excellent opportunity to join Amazon's world class technical teams, working with some of the best and brightest engineers while also developing your skills and furthering your career within one of the most innovative and progressive technology companies.

Job Description
As a Cloud and DevOps Architect in AWS Professional Services, you will help customers innovate and overcome technical challenges by developing and delivering reliable and scalable cloud-based solutions. From greenfield best-practice architectural guidance, to resolving deep technical issues and complex problems, to real-world production-ready implementations, you will work across a range of technical areas including scalable and resilient cloud infrastructure, automation and provisioning, testing and deployment, monitoring and logging, and security.
AWS Professional Services engage in a wide variety of projects for customers and partners. Our team collaborates across the entire AWS organization to get the right solution delivered for our customers, to advance the possibilities of the AWS platform, and to innovate based upon our customer's needs. As a Professional Services Consultant, you will engage with the technical, IT and software leadership of our customers. You will help architects and developers to innovate even faster and be more cost effective using the latest cloud technologies.
We invest heavily in our team by continuously offering learning opportunities, sharing knowledge internally across all technical teams in AWS, and working on (customer & internal) projects that will broaden and deepen your technical knowledge.
If you have an entrepreneurial spirit, are eager to deliver results, are deeply technical, highly innovative, and a voracious learner, it is you who we are looking for!

Major Responsibilities
· (Re)architect solutions to use cloud native technologies and modern architectural patterns.
· Design, develop, and evaluate highly innovative solutions that are scalable and reliable.
· Teach fellow developers how to develop high-quality code, innovate using the latest (cloud) technologies and development best practices.
· Review architecture designs and implementations, suggesting and delivering improvements when needed.
· Solve deep technical issues and develop solutions that extend service capabilities to meet customer needs.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· 5+ years of experience as a software engineer or DevOps architect.
· Strong track record of delivering projects of significant complexity & scale.
· Ability to gather customer requirements and deliver innovative solutions.
· Ability to mentor other software developers on modern DevOps and architectural concepts.
· Experience with software engineering best practices (code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, deployment, release and change management).
· Proficient designing and building highly available, resilient large-scale distributed systems.
· Prior success in automating real-world production environments.
· Automation experience in large-scale production environments (e.g. Chef, Puppet, Salt, or Ansible).
· Experience with source code and software collaboration technologies (e.g. GitHub, GitLab, Atlassian suite, Mercurial, Perforce).
· Experience configuring and managing continuous integration servers (e.g. Jenkins, Bamboo, TeamCity, VSTS).
· Strong scripting skills (e.g. Powershell, Python, Bash, Ruby, Perl).
· Knowledge of IP networking, VPN's, DNS, load balancing and firewalling.
· Strong practical Linux and Windows-based systems administration skills in a Cloud or Virtualized environment.
· Very strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
· Excellent communication and presentation skills, oral and written.
· Strong team-player, willingness and interest to collaborate and work well in a team.
· Strong sense of customer focus, ownership, urgency, and drive.
· Ability to travel to client locations across EMEA when needed. Up to 50%.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

· AWS Experience
· Experience with back-end technologies for web applications/APIs.
· Experience developing robust, highly scalable distributed systems.
· Experience with IT Strategy & Consulting services.
· Familiarity with logging and monitoring infrastructure (e.g. ELK, Datadog, New Relic).
· Experience with automated testing tools (e.g. Selenium, JMeter).
BA/BS degree or equivalent experience; Computer Science or Math background preferred