Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. IT Associates is seeking a Senior AWS Consultant to lead client engagements from technical scoping through hands-on implementation of AWS environments. The role provides technical leadership, mentors team members, governs client engagements, and leads cloud migration and modernization projects while supporting internal AWS capability development.
Responsibilities
- Lead design workshops and articulate AWS product capabilities to clients and stakeholders
- Create solution design documentation and deliver technical presentations
- Scope projects and design solutions in collaboration with clients and internal teams
- Mentor and upskill team members; serve as technical escalation point
- Deploy, configure, and optimize AWS environments and solutions
- Support integration, testing, and troubleshooting of AWS solutions
- Provide technical governance and oversight for client engagements
- Conduct peer reviews of technical documentation
- Define and maintain technical standards and best practices
- Contribute to product development and internal capability building
- Lead and execute migration projects involving servers and applications from private cloud or on-premises environments to AWS public cloud, including assessment, planning, execution, and optimization
- Ensure successful migration of mission-critical workloads, including re-platforming, re-hosting, and modernization as needed
- Collaborate with clients to develop migration strategies, perform readiness assessments, and deliver seamless transitions to AWS
- Work effectively as part of an international team, collaborating across multiple time zones and cultures to deliver successful client outcomes
- Leverage and encourage the use of AI-powered tools and solutions in daily work to drive efficiency, innovation, and continuous improvement
Skills
- Proven leadership experience (senior consultant or team lead)
- Self-motivated, organized, and enthusiastic
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong stakeholder management and presentation abilities
- High integrity and respect for others
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate with international teams and stakeholders, adapting to diverse working styles and cultural expectations
- Expertise in AWS migration tools (Application Migration Service, DMS, Migration Hub, App2Container)
- Proficiency with infrastructure as code and automation tools (CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, AWS Systems Manager)
- Experience with DevOps and CI/CD tools (AWS CodePipeline, Jenkins, GitHub Actions)
- Hands-on experience with cloud-native and modernization technologies (Lambda, EKS/ECS including Fargate, Docker, Helm, AWS SAM)
- Familiarity with monitoring, security, and optimization tools (CloudWatch, X-Ray, Trusted Advisor, Security Hub, GuardDuty, Config, Cost Explorer)
- Scripting and programming in Python, PowerShell, Bash, YAML, JSON
- Experience with AWS governance and management tools (Control Tower, Organizations, IAM, KMS, Service Catalog, EventBridge, Step Functions)
- Demonstrated experience in migrating servers and applications from private cloud or on-premises environments to AWS public cloud, including planning, execution, and post-migration optimization
- Experience with migration tools, methodologies, and best practices for cloud adoption
- Leading technical and executive workshops to architect solutions
- Documenting architecture designs and planning transitions to support
- DevOps background; experience with serverless and container technologies (Lambda, Docker, EKS/ECS including Fargate)
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and tooling (Jenkins, GitHub Actions)
- 7+ years in technology consulting leadership roles
- 4+ years in AWS technology planning and implementation, with a track record of leading large-scale AWS projects
- Bachelor's Degree in a related field required; Master's Degree preferred
- At least one Professional-level AWS certification
- Location - Remote (preference for this person to be located in ET time zone)
- Bachelor's Degree in a related field required; Master's Degree preferred
Benefits
- Medical benefits available after a waiting period
- Dental benefits available after a waiting period
- Retirement benefits available after a waiting period
- Other benefits available after a waiting period
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