AWS Software Engineer Cloud Consultant

Summary

Vertical Relevance is looking for anAWS Cloud Consultant to join our team as a full-time employee 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 anAWS Cloud Consultantyou will implement technical solutions as part of a team for customer engagements. This role requires strong teamwork communicationpatienceand organization skills needed to drive customer success.

At Vertical Relevance wedeliver with excellence through teamwork automating everything constantly learningand taking ownership for the outcomes our customers 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 cloudnative applicationsolutions with customers

  • Review existing customer application full stack architectures and propose iteratives to move towards cloud native architecture

  • Code test and deploy refinements in customer applications

  • 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

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts.
• 5 years applied experience and hands on experience with Java J2EE Sprint/Spring boot AWS services including ECS EKS S3 SQS Lambda EventBridge SNS and related technologies a must.
• Strong familiarities with micro-service designs and proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle.
• Deep technical knowledge of utilizing frameworks to deliver applications and being able to dive deep into code implementations.

• Preferred qualifications capabilities and skills

• AWS Developer or Architect Certifications
• Java development experience
• In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems
• Proficiency in databases like Oracle and Cassandra (any other no sql database).
• Expertise in using monitoring tools like Splunk Grafana and creating dashboards and alerts using these

• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design application development testing and operational stability

• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies
• Proficient in implementing Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment practices to streamline software development processes enhance collaboration and ensure rapid delivery of high-quality software products.
• Skilled in designing and developing applications with robust resiliency features ensuring they can withstand and recover from failures maintain availability and provide consistent performance under varying conditions.
• Proficient in integrating security measures within the software development lifecycle including threat modeling vulnerability assessment and implementing best practices to safeguard applications against potential security threats and breaches.
• Experience with distributed streaming platform (Kafka)

• Professional experience architecting/operatingfull stack business/consumer/corporateweb and mobile applicationsbuilt on AWS

• Core: Terraform CloudFormation Azure Devops/TFS EC2 Lambda S3 AWS IIS MS SQL Server Java Apache Tomcat SNS Secrets Manager CloudWatch

  Optional: SageMaker Glue Firehose Hashicorp Vault Dynatrace Snowflake

• 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

Cloud NativeApplication Re-Architecture

• Assist Customer witharchitectural reviews of existing application design and how to migrate it to AWS

• Assist Customer inidentifying aspects of existing applications that are prospects for migration to cloud native services to enable cost efficiency security performance resiliency

• Review Customers existing application monitoring and operational processes and tools and recommend how they can take advantage

• Assist Customer in identifying how to decompose large applications with monolith designs into smaller decoupled implementations that can be deployed separatelythrough DevOps practicesand enable efficiencies in the Software Development Lifecycle

• Assist Customer with migration activities associated with existing application movesto AWS

• Deliver code and configuration changes in applications to adopt approved designs

• Implement automated testing capabilities to effectively test the application changes

• Assist Customer in adopting recommended practices in DevOps on AWSto improve efficiency in the Software Development Lifecycle

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

• 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

  • Core: Terraform CloudFormation Azure Devops/TFS EC2 Lambda S3 AWS IIS MS SQL Server Java Apache Tomcat SNS Secrets Manager CloudWatch

    Optional: SageMaker Glue Firehose Hashicorp Vault Dynatrace Snowflake

    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 Languages& FrameworksPython JavaJavaScriptNodeJsReactJS Angular VueRubySQLSOAP RESTGraphQLgRPC

• Tooling Services & LibrariesJenkinsGitlabTerraform VaultGit Subversion Docker KubernetesDataDogApache NGINXIIS

• DatabasesMySQL PostgreSQLOracle SQL Server

Relevant AWSServices

• AWS Infrastructure Scripting- CloudFormation AWS CLI AWS CDK

• AWS Storage ServicesS3 EBS

• AWS Compute Services- EC2 ECS EKS ECR Lambda Batch Elastic Beanstalk

• AWS Database Services- RDS DynamoDBElasticache

• AWS Networking Services- VPC Route53 API Gateway CloudFront App Mesh Global Accelerator

• AWS Developer Services-CodePipelineCodeBuildCodeCommitCodeDeployX-Ray

• AWS Management and Governance Services- CloudWatch

• AWS Security Identity Compliance Services - IAM Key Management Service Secrets Manager Cognito Certificate Manager WAF & Shield

• AWS Application Integration Services- SNS SQSStep Functions Simple WorkflowEventBridge Appflow

• AWS Front-End Web & Mobile Amplify AppSync Device Farm Amazon Location Service

• AWS Frameworks Serverless Application Model (SAM)

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.