DevOps Cloud Consultant at Vertical Relevance

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Vertical Relevance is looking for an AWS DevOps Consultant, to join our team as a full-time employee in our New York Metro Area. 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 DevOps 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 solutions with customers • 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 DevOps solutions built on AWS • Experience in software/technology customer facing experience • U.S. work authorization required. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without current or future employer sponsorship. We are committed to a fair and transparent hiring process. Any application containing false information, misrepresented experience, fabricated credentials, AI-generated content presented as personal work, or applications submitted on behalf of another individual without disclosure may be disqualified. Verification of employment history, education, certifications, and identity may be conducted during the recruitment process. Sample Activities You’ll Do Creating a Self-Service Account Framework • Assist Customer with organizational hierarchy design and configuration templates • Assist Customer in the development of referenceable playbooks, supported by relevant code examples • Assist Customer in the development of sample runbooks to automate the implementation of AWS account setup and configuration • Account Framework - Developing an automated Continuous Delivery Pipeline framework that will be used to establish AWS Accounts to configured, tested infrastructure on AWS in a repeatable, reliable and secure manner eliminating the need for manual intervention. • Security Control Policies - Development of the Service Control Policies and account baselines associated with the Customer’s security and compliance requirements • Assist Customer with the development of a report and supporting sample code addressing the controls as part of the playbook Creating a Self-Service Environment Framework • Assist in selecting tools for building Infrastructure-as-Code • Assist Customer in the development of referenceable playbooks, supported by relevant code examples for application infrastructure code • Assist Customer in the development of sample runbooks to automate the implementation of application infrastructure code: • Infrastructure-as-Code - Development of Infrastructure-as-Code specific to each application that can be used to automate the delivery of configured AWS resources specific to the requirements of the application being deployed. • Configuration Management - The development of configuration management modules specific to each application used to automate the configuration of servers including software installation and configuration • Service Catalog Pipeline - Development of a framework for orchestrating build, test, deployment, and validation of infrastructure automation code. • Service Catalog - Management of Service Catalog portfolios to connect products based on selected applications • Assist Customer with the development of a report and supporting sample code addressing the application infrastructure code as part of the playbook 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, AWS OutPosts • 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 Relevant Technical Tools • Primary Languages – Python, Bash • Tooling, Services & Libraries – Jenkins, Gitlab, Terraform, Vault, Packer, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Git, Subversion, Docker, Kubernetes, DataDog, Serverspec , AWS Outposts Relevant AWS Services • AWS Infrastructure Scripting – CloudFormation, AWS CLI, AWS CDK • AWS Storage Services – S3 • AWS Compute Services – EC2, EC2 Metal, ECS, EKS, ECR, Lambda, AWS Outposts experience • AWS Database Services – RDS, DynamoDB • AWS Networking Services – VPC, Route53, API Gateway • AWS Developer Services – CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeCommit, CodeDeploy, AWS Cloud9 • AWS Management and Governance Services – AWS Organizations, CloudWatch, Auto Scaling, Config, CloudTrail, Service Catalog, Systems Manager • AWS Security, Identity, Compliance Services – IAM, Key Management Service, Secrets Manager • AWS Application Integration Services – SNS, SQS, Step Functions, Simple Workflow, EventBridge 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.

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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?
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 solutions with customers
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.
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
Professional experience architecting/operating DevOps solutions built on AWS
Experience in software/technology customer facing experience
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
Creating a Self-Service Account Framework
Assist Customer with organizational hierarchy design and configuration templates
Assist Customer in the development of referenceable playbooks, supported by relevant code examples
Assist Customer in the development of sample runbooks to automate the implementation of AWS account setup and configuration
Security Control Policies - Development of the Service Control Policies and account baselines associated with the Customer’s security and compliance requirements
Assist Customer with the development of a report and supporting sample code addressing the controls as part of the playbook
Creating a Self-Service Environment Framework
Assist in selecting tools for building Infrastructure-as-Code

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