Being an experienced technologist with technical depth and breadth, aided by strong interpersonal skills, you will work directly with customers as part of a customer success team, helping to enable innovation through continuous delivery across technology stacks and creating robust solution designs that align with business goals. Your insight and experience will help our delivery teams build architectures and provide prescriptive guidance across network, storage, operating systems, virtualization, RDBMS & NoSQL databases, security, and automation. In addition, you will work with mid-tier technologies that include application integration, in-memory caches, security, and much more!
The qualified AWS Solution Architect will have demonstrated the ability to think strategically about businesses, create technical definitions around customer objectives in complex situations, develop solution strategies, motivate & mobilize resources, and deliver results. The ability to connect technology with measurable business value is a critical component to be successful in this role. We seek team members who are self-motivated, driven, collaborative, passionate about AWS Cloud, and want to have a direct positive impact on our customers' business. Strong communication skills and emotional intelligence are also needed.
Please submit your resume in English to be considered for this role. Interviews will be held in English and Spanish.
Work Location:
- Work from home in the following locations/states: Mexico City, State of Mexico, or Puebla.
- Travel to the client's office in Periferico Sur, CDMX, Mexico, twice per week.
- 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
Fluent, bilingual (Spanish and English)
a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience
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
- Source code management: Git
- Artifacts management (one or more): Artifactory, Nexus, S3, Blob storage, etc
- 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
- 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
Please submit your resume in English to be considered for this role. Interviews will be held in English and Spanish.
Work Location:
- Work from home in the following locations/states: Mexico City, State of Mexico, or Puebla.
- Travel to the client's office in Periferico Sur, CDMX, Mexico, twice per week.
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