Job Duties
- As the AWS Cloud Architect, you will be technically focused, but also understand and implement business planning
- Be the technical liaison between customers and engineering resources
- Provide tactical scope and work directly with the business representatives/customers to understand the requirements driving the need for a solution to be developed
- Communicate effectively with both business and technical colleagues throughout the course of the project
- Ensure that all the appropriate questions are asked and verify that nothing crucial to the success of the project is overlooked
- Be an AWS Cloud evangelist by educating a variety of customers on the value of AWS
- Help customers transition to the cloud in a high-value migration approach that leverages best-of-breed designs and practices delivered in an agile model
- Work with customers to enable a DevOps culture and modernize operations and release strategies
- Establish credibility and build impactful relationships with our customers to enable them to be cloud advocates
- Participate in deep architectural discussions to build confidence and ensure customer success when building new or migrating existing applications, software, and services on the AWS Cloud Platform.
- Conduct deep-dive “hands-on” education/training sessions to transfer knowledge to customers interested in AWS and to ensure our SAs are up to date
- Traveling up to 20% of the time for candidates outside of Mexico City
Requirements
- Fluent, bilingual (Spanish and English)
- 2-3 years of design & implementation experience with distributed applications
- 2-3 years of experience in networking, infrastructure, or database architectures
- Strong, in-depth understanding and professional experience with AWS Cloud services and infrastructure
- "Hands-on" experience with tooling and services related to cloud Automation, IaC, and DevOps:
- Terraform, Git (one or more: GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket), CICD pipelines (one or more: GitHub actions, GitLab CICD, Bitbucket pipelines, Jenkins, ArgoCD, Azure DevOps), K8S/Kubernetes, Docker, Ansible, AWS CLI, CloudFormation
- "Hands-on" experience with tooling and services related to Large Cloud Migrations: AWS MGN, AWS DMS/SCT, AWS DRS
- "Hands-on" experience with tooling and services related to Database deployments and admin: Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL
- Demonstrated knowledge of software development tools and methodologies
- o Source code management: Git
- o Artifacts management (one or more): Artifactory, Nexus, S3, Blob storage, etc
- o CICD (one or more: GitHub actions, GitLab CICD, Bitbucket pipelines, Jenkins, ArgoCD, Azure DevOps)
- Strong Presentation skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with executives, IT management, and developers.
- Excellent communication skills with an ability to right level conversations
- Demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly
Preferred Qualifications
- 3-5+ years of experience in customer-facing software/technology or consulting
- 3-3+ years of experience with “on-premises to cloud” migrations or IT transformations
- 3+ years of experience architecting/operating solutions built on AWS (ideally) or AWS/Azure
- AWS Professional or Associate Cloud Architect certification and/or other AWS Cloud certifications
- Technical degree; Computer Science or related
