Solution Architect I – Cloud

Job Description: • Consult with multiple clients simultaneously to understand business and technical needs • Be a trusted advisor to assigned clients; help align customer expectations with best practices • Develop strategic roadmaps and project plans based on customer goals • Work with clients and Project Managers to set expectations, drive alignment, and coordinate timelines • Identify areas for cost savings through options such as autoscaling, right-sizing, and elimination of waste within the customer’s AWS environments • Identify security gaps and develop best practice recommendations to help strengthen client security posture • Document and present recommendations to customers, including senior leadership • Translate customer requirements into LOE estimates, design documents and keep project tracking boards up to date • Provide guidance to Cloud Engineers as they implement customer roadmaps • Quality check engineering work; ensure top quality work and customer satisfaction • Train customers in management and maintenance of new or upgraded environments • Support Presales Cloud Solutions Architects in proposal design and positioning • Document time spent on customer activities; record activities daily in Jira with weekly timecard submissions in Mavenlink • Mentor Cloud Engineers Requirements: • Experience working in a customer-facing consulting role • Experience developing project roadmaps, LOE estimates, and design documents • Ability to lead customer facing projects, assigning work to teams, and quality checking engineering work • Ability to translate technical requirements to a non-technical audience • Ability to present solutions to customers, overcoming objectives, and creating consensus • Ability to deploy AWS infrastructure using IAC tooling such as Terraform or CloudFormation • Ability to build CI pipelines and automation (build, test, performance) • Ability to design and build containerization solutions (infrastructure, pipelines, automation) using docker (dockerfiles, ECS, ECS Fargate) or kubernetes (manifests, helm and deployment tooling, KOPS, EKS, EKS, or Fargate) • Understanding of AWS security controls, network boundary controls and related toolsets • Knowledge of AWS’s Well-Architected Framework • Ability to work with one or more scripting languages • Occasional off-hours support, depending on client's need • AWS Professional-level Certification (required within 6 months of employment) Benefits: • Remote work 100% • Professional development opportunities