DevOps Cloud Consultant

Vertical Relevance is looking for an AWS DevOps Consultant to join our team as a full-time employee in our New York or New Jersey office or work remotely. This person is responsible for the end-to-end planning building and deploying of software systems. He/she will be able to drive the programming of well-constructed testable code.

As an AWS DevOps Consultant you will implement technical solutions as part of a team for customer engagements. This role requires strong teamwork communication patience and organization skills needed to drive customer success.

At Vertical Relevance we deliver with excellence through teamwork automating everything constantly learning and taking ownership for the outcomes our customers experience. Are you ready to join the team

Responsibilities

• Help customers shape their journey to adopting the cloud and provide our customers with technical and strategic guidance on their cloud journey.

• Consult plan design and implement cloud solutions with customers

  • Build and deploy infrastructure and automate operations for customers

  • Become a deep technical resource that earns ourcustomerstrust

  • Develop high-quality technical content such as automation tools reference architectures and white papers to help our customers build on the cloud

  • Innovate on behalf of customersand translateyour thoughts into action yielding measurable results.

• Support solution development by conveying customer needs and feedback as input to technology roadmaps. Share real world implementation challenges and recommend expansion of capabilities through enhanced and new offerings.

  • Assist with technical briefs that document solutions

  • Assist with reference architecture implementations

• Support internalandexternal brand development through thought leadership:

  • Work with Marketing/Alliances to write blog posts

  • Work with Marketing/Alliances to develop internal case studies

Qualifications

• Professional experience architecting/operatingDevOpssolutions built on AWS

• Experience in software/technology customer facing experience

• You must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship now or at any time in the future.

Sample ActivitiesYoull Do

Creating aSelf-Service AccountFramework

• Assist Customer with organizational hierarchy design and configuration templates

• Assist Customer in the development of referenceable playbooks supported by relevant code examples

• Assist Customer in the development of sample runbooks to automate the implementation of AWS account setup and configuration

  • Account Framework - Developing an automated Continuous Delivery Pipeline framework that will be used to establish AWS Accounts to configured tested infrastructure on AWS in a repeatable reliable and secure manner eliminating the need for manual intervention.

  • Security Control Policies - Development of the Service Control Policies and accountbaselines associatedwith the Customers security and compliance requirements

• Assist Customer with the development of a report and supporting sample code addressing thecontrols aspart of the playbook

Creating a Self-Service Environment Framework

• Assist in selecting tools for building Infrastructure-as-Code

• Assist Customer in the development of referenceable playbooks supported by relevant code examples for application infrastructure code

• Assist Customer in the development of sample runbooks to automate the implementation of application infrastructure code:

  • Infrastructure-as-Code - Development of Infrastructure-as-Code specific to each application that can be used to automate the delivery of configured AWS resources specific to the requirements of the application being deployed.

  • Configuration Management - The development of configuration management modules specific to each application used toautomatethe configuration of servers including software installation and configuration

  • Service Catalog Pipeline - Development of a framework for orchestrating build test deployment and validation of infrastructure automation code.

• Service Catalog - Management of Service Catalog portfolios to connect products based on selected applications

• Assist Customer with the development of a report and supporting sample code addressing the application infrastructure code as part of the playbook

Creating aSelf-ServicePipeline Framework

• Assist Customers in defining Customers DevOps Framework capabilities based on Customers identified business outcomes

• Assist Customer with reviewing the DevOps Framework architecture against Customers identified business outcomes to include providing general recommendations to help Customer close any observed gaps AWS OutPosts

• Provide Customer with AWS general best practices that may help Customer refine identified deployments

• Assist Customer with defining the first iteration of minimum viable product (MVP) for the DevOps Framework.

• Deploying web apps and building new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances

  • Deploying Python on AWS Lambda

  • Deploying Java on AWS Lambda

  • Blue/green deployments on Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)

  • Deploying to existing Amazon EC2 instances (Windows operating system)

  • Provisioning dashboards to monitor deployments

• Assist Customer in developing and implementing the first iteration of MVP in a non-production environment under Customers direction and using AWS general best practices

• Assist Customer with identifying next steps and proposing activities for a future follow-on engagement

• Provide knowledge transfer to Customers stakeholders on the DevOps Framework

Relevant TechnicalTools

• Primary LanguagesPythonBash

• Tooling Services & LibrariesJenkinsGitlabTerraform VaultPacker AnsibleChef PuppetGit Subversion Docker KubernetesDataDogServerspec AWS Outposts

Relevant AWSServices

• AWS Infrastructure ScriptingCloudFormation AWS CLI AWS CDK

• AWS Storage ServicesS3

• AWS Compute ServicesEC2 EC2 Metal ECS EKS ECR Lambda AWS Outposts experience

• AWS Database ServicesRDS DynamoDB

• AWS Networking ServicesVPC Route53API Gateway

• AWS Developer ServicesCodePipelineCodeBuildCodeCommitCodeDeployAWS Cloud9

• AWS Management and Governance ServicesAWS Organizations CloudWatch Auto Scaling Config CloudTrail Service Catalog Systems Manager

• AWS Security Identity Compliance ServicesIAM Key Management Service Secrets Manager

• AWS Application Integration ServicesSNS SQSStep Functions Simple WorkflowEventBridge

The Company

Vertical Relevance was founded to help business leaders drive value through the design and delivery of effective transformation programs across people processes and systems. Our mission is to help firms at any stage of their journey develop custom solutions for success and growth. We provide a full range of services from strategy and design through to implementation and training. Our collective industry expertise is our greatest asset - our professionals have an average of 20 years experience within Financial Services across Wealth Management Asset Management Insurance and Banking. Within our Customer Experience practice we add complementary industry expertise (technology and media) synergizing the most relevant and successful customer trends. We focus wholly on your success by first rigorously assessing your business and technology challenges and then right-sizing solutions that provide a meaningful ROI. With our industry experts hitting the ground running and focusing on nimble quality delivery we can see rapid tangible improvements with our clients in productivity and effectiveness. When it makes sense for your company we leverage our product partnerships in the areas of CRM Sales Acceleration Predictive Analytics Digital Knowledge Management and Cloud Transformation.

Vertical Relevance is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex gender identity sexual orientation race color religion national origin disability protected Veteran status age or any other characteristic protected by law.