AWS WORKFLOW - App Modernization Cloud Consultant

Summary

Vertical Relevance is seeking a full-time AWS App Modernization Consultant to join its team in New York, New Jersey, or remotely. The role involves planning, designing, building, and deploying cloud-native software systems, guiding customers through cloud adoption, modernizing applications on AWS, and implementing DevOps and automation solutions.

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 native application solutions 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 our customer's trust
• 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 customers and translate your 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
• Work with Marketing/Alliances to write blog posts
• Work with Marketing/Alliances to develop internal case studies
• Assist Customer with architectural reviews of existing application design and how to migrate it to AWS
• Assist Customer in identifying 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 separately through DevOps practices and enable efficiencies in the Software Development Lifecycle
• Assist Customer with migration activities associated with existing application moves to 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 AWS to improve efficiency in the Software Development Lifecycle
• Assist Customers in defining Customer’s DevOps Framework capabilities based on Customer’s identified business outcomes
• Assist Customer with reviewing the DevOps Framework architecture against Customer’s 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 ASP.NET 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 Customer’s 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 Customer’s stakeholders on the DevOps Framework

Skills

• Professional experience architecting/operating full stack business/consumer/corporate web and mobile applications built on AWS
• Core: Terraform, CloudFormation, Azure Devops/TFS, EC2, Lambda, S3, AWS networking, .NET, IIS, MS SQL Server, Java, Apache Tomcat, SNS, Secrets Manager, CloudWatch
• 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
• Optional: SageMaker, Glue, Firehose, Hashicorp Vault, Dynatrace, Snowflake
• Optional: SageMaker, Glue, Firehose, Hashicorp Vault, Dynatrace, Snowflake

Qualifications

Must Haves

• Professional experience architecting/operating full stack business/consumer/corporate web and mobile applications built on AWS
• Core: Terraform, CloudFormation, Azure Devops/TFS, EC2, Lambda, S3, AWS networking, .NET, IIS, MS SQL Server, Java, Apache Tomcat, SNS, Secrets Manager, CloudWatch
• 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

Nice to Haves

• Optional: SageMaker, Glue, Firehose, Hashicorp Vault, Dynatrace, Snowflake
• Optional: SageMaker, Glue, Firehose, Hashicorp Vault, Dynatrace, Snowflake

Benefits

• Full-time employee position in the New York or New Jersey office or work remotely