AWS WORKFLOW - App Modernization Cloud Consultant

Be an Early Applicant Remote Hiring Remotely in United States Mid level Remote Hiring Remotely in United States Mid level Implement and architect cloud-native application solutions on AWS: review and refactor full-stack applications, build/deploy infrastructure and automation, deliver code/configuration changes, create DevOps pipelines and monitoring, produce technical content and guide customers through cloud modernization. The summary above was generated by AI, Vertical Relevance is looking for an AWS App Modernization Consultant, to join our team as a full-time employee in our New York or New Jersey office or 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 an AWS App Modernization Consultant, you will implement technical solutions as part of a team for customer engagements. This role requires strong teamwork, communication, patience and organization skills needed to drive customer success.

At Vertical Relevance we deliver with excellence through teamwork, automating everything, constantly learning and taking ownership for the outcomes our customers experience. Are 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 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
• Support internal and external brand development through thought leadership:
• 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

Creating a Self-Service Pipeline Framework

• 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

• Core: Terraform, CloudFormation, Azure Devops/TFS, EC2, Lambda, S3, AWS networking, .NET, 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 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

Relevant Technical Tools

• Primary Languages & Frameworks - Python, Java, JavaScript, NodeJs, ReactJS, Angular, Vue, Ruby, SQL, SOAP, REST, GraphQL, gRPC
• Tooling, Services & Libraries - Jenkins, Gitlab, Terraform, Vault, Git, Subversion, Docker, Kubernetes, DataDog, Apache, NGINX, IIS
• Databases - MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server

Relevant AWS Services

• AWS Infrastructure Scripting - CloudFormation, AWS CLI, AWS CDK
• AWS Storage Services - S3, EBS
• AWS Compute Services - EC2, ECS, EKS, ECR, Lambda, Batch, Elastic Beanstalk
• AWS Database Services - RDS, DynamoDB, Elasticache
• AWS Networking Services - VPC, Route53, API Gateway, CloudFront, App Mesh, Global Accelerator
• AWS Developer Services - CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeCommit, CodeDeploy, X-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, SQS, Step Functions, Simple Workflow, EventBridge, Appflow
• AWS Front-End Web & Mobile - Amplify, AppSync, Device Farm, Amazon Location Service
• AWS Frameworks - Serverless Application Model (SAM), Join a boutique investment banking team to build and own complex financial models, prepare client-ready presentations, drive M&A and capital-raising processes, manage diligence and coordination with advisors, and interact directly with senior clients. Requires strong analytical, quantitative, and client communication skills and elite execution on lean deal teams. Top Skills: Claude PluginExcelGaapIndex/MatchMacrosPivot TablesPower QueryPowerPointVlookupWordXlookup Fortune Brands Innovations

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

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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.