Senior Delivery Consultant - Security, AWS Professional Services, South Africa

ENGINEERINGUK; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 600 000 - 1 000 000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Senior Delivery Consultant, where your expertise in AWS and cloud solutions will drive innovation and success for clients. In this dynamic role, you will design and implement complex, secure AWS solutions, provide technical guidance, and collaborate with stakeholders to shape effective migration strategies. Your contributions will not only enhance customer satisfaction but also foster a culture of knowledge sharing and mentorship within the organization. If you are passionate about technology and eager to make a significant impact, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in technical design and architecture.
• 5+ years of experience with SQL, NoSQL, and big data technologies.
• Experience in consulting and managing large scale projects.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable AWS solutions tailored to customer needs.
• Provide technical guidance and support throughout project delivery.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to propose effective migration strategies.

Skills

Cloud Computing

Project Management

Database Management

Scripting (PowerShell, Python, etc.)

Security Solutions Implementation

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS

Chef

Puppet

Ansible

Hadoop

Spark

Kafka

Kinesis

Job description

Senior Delivery Consultant - Security, AWS Professional Services, South Africa

DESCRIPTION

At Amazon Web Services (AWS), we're hiring highly technical cloud computing architects to help our partners develop technical expertise and capacity, while also collaborating with our customers and partners on key engagements. Our consultants will deliver proof-of-concept projects, topical workshops, and lead implementation projects. These professional services engagements will focus on key customer solutions such as web applications, enterprise applications, HPC, batch processing and big data, archiving and disaster recovery, education and government.

Professional Services engage in a wide variety of projects for customers and partners, providing collective experience from across the AWS customer base and are obsessed about strong success for the Customer. Our team collaborates across the entire AWS organization to bring access to product and service teams, to get the right solution delivered and drive feature innovation based upon customer needs.

Key job responsibilities
As an experienced technology professional, you will be responsible for:

1. Designing and implementing complex, scalable, and secure AWS solutions tailored to customer needs
2. Providing technical guidance and troubleshooting support throughout project delivery
3. Collaborating with stakeholders to gather requirements and propose effective migration strategies
4. Acting as a trusted advisor to customers on industry trends and emerging technologies
5. Sharing knowledge within the organization through mentoring, training, and creating reusable artifacts

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 7+ years of technical specialist, design and architecture experience
- 5+ years of database (eg. SQL, NoSQL, Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, Kinesis) experience
- Experience in consulting, design and implementation of serverless distributed solutions experience
- External or internal customer facing, complex and large scale project management experience

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Strong scripting skills, i.e., PowerShell, Python, Node.js, Javascript, Bash, Ruby, Perl, etc. as well with Chef, Puppet, Salt, or Ansible in production environments at scale
- Technical expertise (design and/or implementation) in Cloud Computing technologies
- Implementation experience with enterprise security solutions such as WAF, IPS, Anti-DDOS, and SIEM
- Experience building enterprise security strategy for cloud adoption or driving the program's evolution to meet new requirements
- Understanding implications of meeting industry standards such as PCI DSS, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and NIST/DoD frameworks.

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer, and we value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. We welcome applications from all members of society irrespective of age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief. Amazon is strongly committed to diversity within its community and especially welcomes applications from South African citizens who are members of designated groups who may contribute to Employment Equity within the workplace and the further diversification of ideas. In this regard, the relevant laws and principles associated with Employment Equity will be considered when appointing potential candidates. We are required by law to verify your ability to work lawfully in South Africa. Amazon requires that you submit a copy of either your identity document or your passport and any applicable work permit if you are a foreign national, along with an updated curriculum vitae.