Senior AWS Cloud Architect & AI-Driven Solutions Lead

CO1003 CDW Technologies, LLC; Illinois; Hybrid; USD 156,000 - 241,000; Full time

Job summary

CDW is seeking a Principal AWS Consultant to design and engineer AWS solutions, lead delivery, mentor engineers, and align delivery teams with best practices. This role combines technical leadership with client engagement across global engagements.

You will drive automation, IaC, CI/CD, and AI/ML initiatives, work with Kubernetes, Terraform, CloudFormation, and related tools, and travel to client sites as needed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and 10+ years in IT infrastructure, including 3+ years in large enterprise consulting.
• Or 14+ years in IT infrastructure with 3+ years consulting.
• Strong leadership and advisory capabilities.
• Expertise in cloud, DevOps, and automation engineering.
• Ability to mentor engineers and architects.
• Willingness to travel to other CDW locations or client sites.

Responsibilities

• Deliver professional services for CDW customers globally on major Public Cloud platform.
• Aggregate oversight of technical solutions across multiple projects for delivery team visibility.
• Collaborate with CDW consulting groups on cohesive technical solution approaches bridging sales and delivery.
• Standardize technical solutions and advocate for client-focused approaches.
• Assist management with technical growth plans for engineers and architects.
• Assist with SOW reviews and approval as needed.
• Lead technical deployment engineering with customers on workload design for major public cloud vendors.
• Provide workshops and training events for customers on emerging technologies in Public Cloud.
• Provide Engineering Services for AWS, coordinating engagement strategies and resource augmentation.
• Proficiency in automation tools and technologies relevant to IT operations (Ansible, Puppet, Chef).
• Deep understanding of AI/ML algorithms, including supervised/unsupervised/reinforcement learning, deep learning, NLP.
• Oversee projects to ensure delivery excellence and act as escalation point.
• Analyze complex systems to design effective automation solutions addressing business needs.
• Strong knowledge of DevOps principles and practices, including CI/CD, IaC, automated testing.
• Experience implementing DevOps workflows and pipelines for software development, testing, deployment, operations.
• Meet training and certification requirements for selected Vendors (AWS, Hashicorp, Docker, CKA).
• Help mature our Cloud Solutions practice areas in response to client needs.

Skills

AWS expertise

DevOps practices

Kubernetes expert

Automation & IaC

CI/CD pipelines

Communication skills

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Ansible

Puppet

Chef

Jenkins

GitLab CI/CD

Terraform

CloudFormation

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

CDW is seeking a Principal AWS Consultant to design and engineer AWS solutions, lead delivery, mentor engineers, and align delivery teams with best practices. This role combines technical leadership with client engagement across global engagements.

You will drive automation, IaC, CI/CD, and AI/ML initiatives, work with Kubernetes, Terraform, CloudFormation, and related tools, and travel to client sites as needed.