Associate Cloud Consultant in our Associate Accelerator program

The AssociateProgramis a fast pacedultra-highintensityprogram that will take an inexperienced engineer andprepare them forworking on AWSprojectswith the largest most demandingcustomers in thefinancial services industry must be hybrid in our NYC office.

Theprogramis designed toenablehigh-potentialindividualswithhands-on experience to amplify their skills in an inspiring and safe environment. They will gain exposure to practical tools strategies and best practices for becoming a high-performing leader. Working interactively with other participants and organizations they will develop key skills in the areas of innovation communication and adaptabilitysome of the most sought-after skills in business today. Hybrid work environment

Responsibilities

• Read comprehend and present on AWS best practices and strategies

• 3 years work experience design andimplement proof-of-concept (POC) cloud solutions as part of the program.

  • Build and deploy infrastructure and automate operations

  • Design and automate security and compliance solutions

  • DesignAWS Data Lake implementations

  • Design and Develop AWS Data Quality and Governance solutions

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

• 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

Sample ActivitiesYoull Do

Creating a Self-Service AccountFramework

• Development of POC code for automatingthe 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

Creating a Self-Service Environment Framework

• Development of POC code 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.

Creating aSelf-ServicePipeline Framework

• Development of POC code to automate the implementation of pipelines:

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

Creating a Self-Service Compliance Framework

• Development of POC code to automate the implementation of controls:

  • Policy Definition Identification and documentation of Customer Policy in the form of specific statements that must be true about configuration of AWS resources

  • Policy-as-Code Development Development of the logical tests associated with each of the policies established to be used to assert the configuration state of infrastructure on AWS in order to block a build in the pipeline take automated reactive action or alert on violations to the policy

  • Framework Development A design allowing for the execution of logical tests against infrastructure code or running AWS infrastructure in order to assert the configuration state of infrastructure resources on AWS and block a build in the pipeline take automated reactive action or alert on violations to the policy

AWS Data Architecture and Data Lake Implementation

• Development of POC code for data collection data ingestion and catalog data storage and data serving designed to optimize the efficiency in which information is accessed curated served and analyzed from up to twoon-premisesdata sources.:

  • Build Data Lake in AWS using AWSanalyticsin a multi-account environment.

  • Modern big data lambda architecture providing an environment for consumption and utilization of data coming from either batch or streaming sources.

Relevant TechnicalTools

• Primary LanguagesPythonBash

• Tooling Services & LibrariesJenkins Docker

Relevant AWSServices

• AWS Infrastructure ScriptingCloudFormation AWS CLI AWS CDK

• AWS Storage ServicesS3

• AWS Compute ServicesEC2Lambda

• AWS Database ServicesRDS DynamoDB

• AWS Networking ServicesVPC Route53 API 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

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.