A Cloud Consultant designs plans and deploys AWSbased solutions while collaborating with customers and internal teams to optimize their cloud infrastructure automation and security. Focus is on understanding customers pain points and recommend and implement suitable solutions.
Tasks
A Cloud Consultant works in collaboration on customer projects. She/he acts as a member of a project team with other colleagues customers staff and/or staff of other partners. On small projects the Cloud Consultant often acts on her/his own together with the customer.
Duties and responsibilities are:
Identify requirements of customers use cases
- Understand the pain points of the customers.
- Independently collect and analyze customer requirements for straightforward use cases.
Develop solution architecture
- Propose solutions with respect to cost effort time and best practices
- explain options and help decide to best benefit customers need
Implement and configure a wide range of AWS services
Troubleshoot AWSrelated issues
Manage and Contribute to Projects
- Manage small (up to 1 FTE) projects support in mediumsized projects
- Collaborate with crossfunctional teams to deliver integrated solutions
- Provide target grouporiented information about the project tasks and their desired solution project status (in their area of work)
Enablement
- Provide technical guidance and support to junior (and other) consultants
- Provide technical guidance to customers during the project.
- Stay current with AWS services features best practices and related general trends and technology
Communicate
- Develop and deliver client presentations
- Develop and deliver technical documentation
- Contribute to presales activities by acting as the technical expert.
- Efficiently explain complex facts solutions architectures in a way that is appropriate to the target audience.
Requirements
Position requires 13 years of experience
In Cloud Computing or Consulting (IT Focus)
- AWS Solutions Architect Associate certification (required)
- AWS Solutions Architect Professional or other AWS Professional/Specialty Level Certification (preferred)
- Strong knowledge of AWS services architecture patterns and best practices
- Proficiency in at least one programming language (e.g. Python Java JavaScript)
- Excellent project management and client communication skills
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team on a single or multiple projects
- Problemsolving mindset with a proactive approach to technical challenges.