Responsibilities:
Participate in pre-sales calls, lead technology discussions and whiteboarding sessions
Ensure all solutions exhibit high levels of performance, security, scalability, maintainability, and appropriate reusability and reliability upon deployment
Develop deep relationships with key customer IT decision makers, who drive long-term cloud adoption within their company to enable them to be cloud advocates
Maintain technical skills and knowledge of market trends and competitive insights; collaborate and share with the technical community
Understand customers overall applications portfolio, IT and business priorities and success measures to design implementation architectures and solutions
Apply technical knowledge and customer insights to create a modernization roadmap. Architect solutions to meet business and IT needs, ensuring technical viability of new projects and successful deployments, while orchestrating key resources and infusing key Infrastructure technologies Windows and Linux IaaS, Security, Networking, etc.), and DevOps technologies (containers, serverless, cloud native, etc.) as appropriate
Manage and develop estimates for customer implementations, schedules (timeline), and overall planning
Creation of thorough specifications, plans, and activities to ensure successful customer implementations or migrations
Lead/oversee customer implementations and migrations
Drive to change and constantly improve the service that is delivered to the customer with minimum disruption
Hands-on experience with typical project and system/customer support: planning, coordinating, hardware selection, software selection, and use, customer education and support, vendor liaison, troubleshooting, problem resolution, product evaluation, and documentation
Ability to work natively in a mixed Windows/Linux environment and can fully comprehend and implement hybrid architectures
Strong network configuration knowledge (Firewalls, VPN, Routers/Switches, and Load Balancers)
Work with all types of people and the ability to communicate with a broad spectrum of individuals
Qualifications:
AWS Pro Certification or equivalent work experience
Minimum 3-7 years of System Administration consultative experience working with multiple clients
Experience with the following AWS Services Direct Connect, Firehose, Kinesis, Redshift, Athena, DynamoDB, Glue
Significant experience with Ansible, Chef, Puppet or other automation and/or configuration toolsets
Experience in the implementation, management, and administration of Enterprise systems tools and processes
Significant experience in Bash, Perl, Ruby or Python scripting
Ability to work natively in a mixed Windows/Linux environment and can fully comprehend and implement hybrid architectures
Strong network configuration knowledge (Firewalls, VPN, Routers/Switches, and Load Balancers)
A clear understanding of various network topologies
Technically minded and understands a wide range of system platforms
Clear comprehension of the overall IT infrastructure and application stack
Ability to work in a multilingual/cultural environment
Analytical skills to assist in the resolution of complex issues that may be time sensitive
Ability to provide high-level support for technical clients
Ability to estimate effort to complete tasks and meet pre-defined objectives
Ability to plan, organize, schedule, and manage activities
Experience with multiple technologies and design techniques
Excellent oral/written communication and organization skills
Preferred Skills
Experience working with external vendors and consulting engagements
Experience working with interactive media agencies
Completed either AWS Solutions Architect or DevOps Pro Certifications
Must be able to work independently and show excellent initiative
Solid understanding of project principles and how to manage the delivery of projects