Remote Position
Solution Architect I – Cloud
🌍 Remote · United States
💼 Full-time
Job Description:
- Consult with multiple clients simultaneously to understand business and technical needs
- Be a trusted advisor to assigned clients; help align customer expectations with best practices
- Develop strategic roadmaps and project plans based on customer goals
- Work with clients and Project Managers to set expectations, drive alignment, and coordinate timelines
- Identify areas for cost savings through options such as autoscaling, right-sizing, and elimination of waste within the customer’s AWS environments
- Identify security gaps and develop best practice recommendations to help strengthen client security posture
- Document and present recommendations to customers, including senior leadership
- Translate customer requirements into LOE estimates, design documents and keep project tracking boards up to date
- Provide guidance to Cloud Engineers as they implement customer roadmaps
- Quality check engineering work; ensure top quality work and customer satisfaction
- Train customers in management and maintenance of new or upgraded environments
- Support Presales Cloud Solutions Architects in proposal design and positioning
- Document time spent on customer activities; record activities daily in Jira with weekly timecard submissions in Mavenlink
- Mentor Cloud Engineers Requirements:
- Experience working in a customer-facing consulting role
- Experience developing project roadmaps, LOE estimates, and design documents
- Ability to lead customer facing projects, assigning work to teams, and quality checking engineering work
- Ability to translate technical requirements to a non-technical audience
- Ability to present solutions to customers, overcoming objectives, and creating consensus
- Ability to deploy AWS infrastructure using IAC tooling such as Terraform or CloudFormation
- Ability to build CI pipelines and automation (build, test, performance)
- Ability to design and build containerization solutions (infrastructure, pipelines, automation) using docker (dockerfiles, ECS, ECS Fargate) or kubernetes (manifests, helm and deployment tooling, KOPS, EKS, EKS, or Fargate)
- Understanding of AWS security controls, network boundary controls and related toolsets
- Knowledge of AWS’s Well-Architected Framework
- Ability to work with one or more scripting languages
- Occasional off-hours support, depending on client's need
- AWS Professional-level Certification (required within 6 months of employment) Benefits:
- Remote work 100%
- Professional development opportunities Apply tot his job