Code, test, and deploy refinements in customer applications.
Build and deploy customer infrastructure and automate operations.
Serve as a deep technical resource and earn customer trust.
Develop technical content, including automation tools, reference architectures, and white papers, to help customers build on the cloud.
Innovate on behalf of customers and translate ideas into action that yields measurable results.
Support solution development by conveying customer needs and feedback as input to technology roadmaps; share real-world implementation challenges and recommend expanded capabilities through enhanced or new offerings.
Assist with technical briefs documenting solutions and reference architecture implementations.
Support internal and external brand development through thought leadership, including working with Marketing and Alliances to write blog posts and develop internal case studies.
Assist customers with architectural reviews of existing application designs and plans for migrating them to AWS.
Help customers identify application components suited to migration to cloud-native services to improve cost efficiency, security, performance, and resiliency.
Review customers’ application monitoring and operational processes and tools, and recommend how they can take advantage of them.
Help customers decompose monolithic applications into smaller, decoupled implementations that can be deployed separately through DevOps practices and improve software development lifecycle efficiency.
Assist customers with migration activities for existing applications moving to AWS.
Deliver code and configuration changes in applications to implement approved designs.
Implement automated testing capabilities to test application changes effectively.
Help customers adopt recommended DevOps practices on AWS to improve software development lifecycle efficiency.
Help customers define DevOps Framework capabilities based on identified business outcomes.
Review DevOps Framework architecture against customer business outcomes and provide recommendations to close observed gaps.
Provide customers with AWS general best practices to refine deployments.
Help customers define the first minimum viable product iteration for the DevOps Framework.
Deploy ASP.NET web applications and build new Amazon EC2 instances.
Deploy Python and Java applications on AWS Lambda.
Implement blue/green deployments on Amazon ECS and deployments to existing Windows-based Amazon EC2 instances.
Provision dashboards to monitor deployments.
Help customers develop and implement the first DevOps Framework MVP iteration in a non-production environment, under customer direction and using AWS general best practices.
Help customers identify next steps and propose activities for a future follow-on engagement.
Provide knowledge transfer to customer stakeholders on the DevOps Framework.
Desired Qualifications
Experience with SageMaker, Glue, Firehose, HashiCorp Vault, Dynatrace, or Snowflake.
Experience in software/technology architecture and customer-facing work, with Java, C++, or C++.
Experience with Python, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, React, Angular, Vue, Ruby, SQL, SOAP, REST, or GraphQL and gRPC.
Experience with Jenkins, GitLab, Terraform, Vault, Git, Subversion, Docker, Kubernetes, Datadog, Apache, or NGINX.
Experience with MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, or SQL Server.
Experience with AWS services and tools including AWS CLI, AWS CDK, EBS, ECS, EKS, ECR, AWS Batch, Elastic Beanstalk, RDS, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, VPC, Route 53, API Gateway, CloudFront, App Mesh, Global Accelerator, CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeCommit, CodeDeploy, X-Ray, IAM, Key Management Service, Cognito, Certificate Manager, WAF, Shield, SQS, Step Functions, Simple Workflow, EventBridge, AppFlow, Amplify, AppSync, Device Farm, Amazon Location Service, or Serverless Application Model (SAM).
Summary
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. 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
Qualifications
Professional experience architecting/operating full stack business/consumer/corporate web and mobile applications built on AWS
Experience in software/technology- Architecture customer facing experience - Java or C++ or C#
U.S. work authorization required. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without current or future employer sponsorship.
Sample Activities You’ll Do
Cloud Native Application Re-Architecture
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
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
AWS Front-End Web & Mobile – Amplify, AppSync, Device Farm, Amazon Location Service
AWS Frameworks – Serverless Application Model (SAM)
The Company
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.
Vertical Relevance is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.