Cloud Engineer - Con/Senior Consultant

Cloud Consultant

 What You’ll Do
 * Advise clients on the overall enterprise architecture landscape on various solution architecture areas including technology, information, data, security, and integration.
* Implement and architect large scale, innovative IT solutions to drive business transformation.
 * Evaluate and identify IT-related risks, including compliance, operations, revenue, and growth risks.
 * Engage as a trusted advisor across technology topics and the software lifecycle, articulating ROI, risk, and value.
 * Develop, as part of a team, technology strategy and planning deliverables to address IT risks and improve effectiveness of the IT organization, specifically focusing on business application integration.
* Produce target state solution architectures, perform architectural assessment and gap analysis and help formulate the overall solution strategy and roadmap.
* Write technical designs and documentation; provide guidance and training to clients.
 * Collaborate with clients and Slalom consultants to translate business requirements into technical requirements.
* Define activities, work products, staffing plans, cost estimations, and schedules required for migration/modernization consultation in proposals and SOWs.
 * Contributes to delivery via billable roles as Delivery Solution Lead and/or in SME roles within market’s portfolio, with specific utilization target defined by level.

  

 What You’ll Bring
 * Strong ability to share ideas and communicate with peers and clients.
 * Ability to lead solutioning during proposal phases or offering development.
* Fluency in the development and use of solution architecture frameworks, patterns, and best practices to drive business transformation. Familiarity and exposure to Enterprise Architecture frameworks and methodologies.
* Experience in analyzing business and technology requirements to design and build scalable enterprise application architectures. Ability to explain principles of application architecture to clients using value-based frameworks.
* Experience with client or stakeholder negotiations and presentations.
 * Bring strong experience in software engineering and DevOps, particularly in production environments using AWS.
 * Design and implement end-to-end CI/CD pipelines for application delivery.

 * Apply expertise in configuration management and infrastructure as code, using tools such as:
 * Chef, Puppet, Ansible
* Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM

* Contribute to security-focused engineering practices, including:
 * Identity and access management
 * Firewall configuration
 * Fundamental cloud security principles

 * Knowledge of application development practices including Agile and SAFe, systems development lifecycle, GitOps, and implementation of software products.
 * Demonstrate a growth mindset and eagerness to learn new technologies quickly
 * Use acquired knowledge to solve practical business problems for customers
 * Demonstrable experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).
* Passion for learning and a proactive approach; able to identify gaps, suggest improvements, and self-manage responsibilities.
* Willingness to be a part of high-performing team in a diverse environment, and ability to thrive in ambiguity.
* 4+ years of experience in application architecture, development, or modernization.

  
 * Nice to Have:
 * Proficiency in at least one programming language.
 * Expertise in two major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).
 * Hands-on experience with migration tooling (e.g., AWS MGN, Cloudamize).
 * Hands-on experience delivering migration or modernization projects.
* Application rationalization or 7R evaluation experience.
* Experience with legacy-to-modern transformations (Java/.NET to containerized or serverless architectures).

 * AWS certifications such as:
* AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate/Professional
 * AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional, or AWS Certified Developer - Associate.

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