App Modernization Cloud Consultant

Vertical Relevance; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Vertical Relevance is seeking an AWS App Modernization Consultant to join our New York or New Jersey office as a full-time employee. This role leads end-to-end planning, building, and deploying cloud-based software systems, delivering well-constructed, testable code.

As part of a team, you will implement technical solutions for customer engagements, requiring teamwork, strong communication, patience, and organization to drive customer success.

Qualifications

• Experience architecting/operating full stack web and mobile apps on AWS.
• Strong familiarity with Terraform, CloudFormation and AWS services.
• Authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship.

Responsibilities

• Assist customers in cloud journey planning and design.
• Plan, design, and implement cloud-native solutions with clients.
• Support feedback into roadmaps and contribute to thought leadership.
• Deliver code and configurations to adopt approved designs.

Skills

AWS

Full stack

DevOps

Communication

Teamwork

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

EC2

Lambda

S3

CI/CD

Jenkins

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

Job description

Summary

Vertical Relevance is looking for anAWS 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 anAWS App ModernizationConsultant,you will implement technical solutions as part of a team for customer engagements. This role requires strong teamwork, communication,patienceand organization skills needed to drive customer success.

At Vertical Relevance wedeliver with excellence through teamwork, automating everything, constantly learningand 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 cloudnative applicationsolutions with customers
• 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.
• Support internalandexternal brand development through thought leadership:

Qualifications

• Professional experience architecting/operatingfull stack business/consumer/corporateweb and mobile applicationsbuilt on AWS
• Core: Terraform, CloudFormation, Azure Devops/TFS, EC2, Lambda, S3, AWS networking, .NET, IIS, MS SQL Server, Java, Apache Tomcat, SNS, Secrets Manager, CloudWatch
• You must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future

Sample ActivitiesYou’ll Do

Cloud NativeApplication Re-Architecture

• Assist Customer witharchitectural reviews of existing application design and how to migrate it to AWS
• Assist Customer inidentifying 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 separatelythrough DevOps practicesand enable efficiencies in the Software Development Lifecycle
• Assist Customer with migration activities associated with existing application movesto 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 AWSto improve efficiency in the Software Development Lifecycle

Creating aSelf-ServicePipeline 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.
• 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 TechnicalTools

• Primary Languages& Frameworks–Python, Java,JavaScript,NodeJs,ReactJS, Angular, Vue,Ruby,SQL,SOAP, REST,GraphQL,gRPC
• Tooling, Services & Libraries–Jenkins,Gitlab,Terraform, Vault,Git, Subversion, Docker, Kubernetes,DataDog,Apache, NGINX,IIS
• Databases–MySQL, PostgreSQL,Oracle, SQL Server

Relevant AWSServices

• AWS Infrastructure Scripting- CloudFormation, AWS CLI, AWS CDK
• AWS Storage Services–S3, EBS
• AWS Compute Services- EC2, ECS, EKS, ECR, Lambda, Batch, Elastic Beanstalk
• AWS Database Services- RDS, DynamoDB,Elasticache
• AWS Networking Services- VPC, Route53, API Gateway, CloudFront, App Mesh, Global Accelerator
• AWS Developer Services-CodePipeline,CodeBuild,CodeCommit,CodeDeploy,X-Ray
• AWS Management and Governance Services- CloudWatch
• AWS Security, Identity, Compliance Services - IAM, Key Management Service, Secrets Manager, Cognito, Certificate Manager, WAF & Shield
• AWS Application Integration Services- SNS, SQS,Step Functions, Simple Workflow,EventBridge, Appflow
• 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.