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Vertical Relevance · 4 months ago

App Modernization Cloud Consultant

United States

Full-time

Remote

Mid Level

Vertical Relevance is looking for an AWS App Modernization Consultant to join their team, either in New York, New Jersey, or remotely. This role is responsible for the end-to-end planning, building, and deploying of cloud-native application solutions, while providing technical and strategic guidance to customers on their cloud journey.

Financial ServicesInsurance

No H1B

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

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

Qualification

AWSTerraformCloudFormationDevOpsPythonJavaSQLMicroservicesPatienceCommunication skillsTeamworkOrganization skills

Required

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