Associate Cloud Consultant in our Associate Accelerator program

Vertical Relevance; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hands-on experience in AWS projects

Collaboration with industry experts

Job summary

Vertical Relevance is seeking an Associate Engineer for its NYC office to join an intensive program preparing individuals for AWS projects in the financial sector. This role involves designing and automating cloud solutions, enhancing customer engagement, and contributing to thought leadership initiatives.

The program offers hands-on experience in a collaborative environment, aiming to cultivate skills in AWS best practices and provide exposure to cutting-edge technologies.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of work experience in cloud solution implementation.
• Experience with developing automation tools and security solutions.
• Strong knowledge of AWS Data Lake implementations.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement AWS infrastructure and automation solutions.
• Collaborate on developing customer-specific technical solutions.
• Contribute to brand development through thought leadership.

Skills

AWS best practices comprehension

Cloud solutions design

Technical writing

Automation tools development

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS Services

Jenkins

Docker

CloudFormation

Job description

Associate Program Overview

The Associate Program is a fast paced, ultra‑high intensity program that will take an inexperienced engineer and prepare them for working on AWS projects with the largest, most demanding customers in the financial services industry. The role requires hybrid work in our NYC office.

The program is designed to enable high‑potential individuals with hands‑on experience to amplify their skills in an inspiring and safe environment.

Responsibilities

• Read, comprehend, and present on AWS best practices and strategies
• 3+ years' work experience designing and implementing proof‑of‑concept (POC) cloud solutions as part of the program
  • Build and deploy infrastructure and automate operations
  • Design and automate security and compliance solutions
  • Design AWS Data Lake implementations
  • Design and develop AWS Data Quality and Governance solutions
  • Develop high‑quality technical content such as automation tools, reference architectures, and white papers to help our customers build on the cloud
• 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

Sample Activities You’ll Do

Creating a Self‑Service Account Framework

• Development of POC code for automating the implementation of AWS account setup and configuration
  • Account Framework – developing an automated Continuous Delivery Pipeline framework that establishes AWS accounts with configured, tested infrastructure 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.

Creating a Self‑Service Environment Framework

• Development of POC code 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 delivery of configured AWS resources specific to the requirements of the application being deployed.
  • Configuration Management – development of configuration management modules specific to each application used to automate 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.

Creating a Self‑Service Pipeline Framework

• Development of POC code to automate the implementation of pipelines
  • Pipeline Skeletons – development of infrastructure‑as‑code specific to pipelines used to automate delivery of configured AWS resources for the application.

Creating a Self‑Service Compliance Framework

• Development of POC code to automate the implementation of controls
  • Policy Definition – identification and documentation of customer policy in the form of specific statements that must be true about configuration of AWS resources.
  • Policy‑as‑Code Development – development of the logical tests associated with each of the policies to assert infrastructure state on AWS, block a build, take automated reactive action, or alert on violations.
  • Framework Development – design allowing execution of logical tests against infrastructure code or running AWS infrastructure to assert state and block a build, take automated action, or alert.

AWS Data Architecture and Data Lake Implementation

• Development of POC code for data collection, ingestion, cataloging, storage, and serving, optimized to access, curate, serve and analyze information from up to two on‑premises data sources
  • Build Data Lake in AWS using AWS analytics in a multi‑account environment.
  • Modern big data lambda architecture, providing an environment for consumption and utilization of data from batch or streaming sources.

Relevant Technical Tools

• Primary Languages – Python, Bash
• Tooling, Services & Libraries – Jenkins, Docker

Relevant AWS Services

• AWS Infrastructure Scripting – CloudFormation, AWS CLI, AWS CDK
• AWS Storage Services – S3
• AWS Compute Services – EC2, Lambda
• 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

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, with professionals having an average of 20+ years of 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. When it makes sense, we leverage our product partnerships in the areas of CRM, Sales Acceleration, Predictive Analytics, Digital Knowledge Management, and Cloud Transformation.