AWS Cloud Architect – Digital Velocityat CDW Careers

As part of CDW’s Digital Velocity (DV) organization, Cloud Architects engage with CDW presales, clients, and internal teams to design, develop and implement automated, cloud native pattern solutions primarily to the public cloud service provider Amazon Web Services (AWS). Cloud Architects design and architect cloud solutions based on Statement of Work (SoW) criteria and as needed, also provide cloud engineering of designed solutions. This role is expected to have thought leadership as well as deep technical knowledge in core areas pertaining AWS and cloud native automation and DevOps solutions. 

Key areas of responsibility

• Provide Professional Services Delivery within CDW’s DV organization with expertise in AWS
• Billable consultant providing AWS architecture, cloud native pattern design and cloud engineering solutions to DV clients
• Partnering with the DV Pre-Sales Team, translate client needs and vision outlined within SoWs into workable best practice solutions
• Cloud architectural design, presentation and implementation lead to support cloud native automation solutions at scale
• Hybrid of technical leadership and engineering delivery of cloud automation solutions including, but not limited to; Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Kubernetes / EKS, Containers, CI/CD methodologies and tooling, Event Driven Architectures, etc.
• Component specific design and implementation consulting services around AWS’s core resources, cloud networking, IAM, etc.
• Creation and delivery of as needed workshops, knowledge transfer sessions etc. to clients in order to ensure solution adoption and permanence 
• Training, mentoring and code / work review of cloud engineer team members as necessary
• Operate as part of a team leveraging agile and scrum methodologies
• Meet training and certification requirements for applicable technologies (AWS, HashiCorp, CKA, etc.)
• Travel estimate up to 15%
• Internal projects when applicable

Education and/or Experience qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of experience in design and implementation of architecture and automated private/public cloud solutions
• Knowledge and skill level in identified competencies meet minimum requirements for role
• Previous direct customer consulting experience or equivalent understanding of role responsibilities

Required qualifications

• Highly proficient in Amazon Web Service (AWS)
• Demonstrated knowledge of the AWS cloud platform and awareness of multi-cloud solutions and capabilities
• Experience with end-to-end scalable AWS architecture design and solution implementation for organizations of varying size
• Experience designing and implementing solutions with Terraform, Ansible or equivalent IaC automation tools and technologies
• Experience implementing system Configuration Management automation with tools such as Ansible, Puppet, Chef, or CodeDeploy
• Working knowledge of AWS CloudFormation and how organizations leverage it
• Working knowledge of various on-premise and cloud connectivity (e.g. Direct Connect, Direct Connect Gateway, Site to Site VPN, and Transit Gateway) options through to cloud network security groups and routing
• Experience deploying and managing AWS Organizations, Accounts, OUs, SCPs, and VPCs across multiple regions
• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines, containers, and container orchestrators
• Design and implementation experience of container solutions including orchestration with Kubernetes and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes cluster design and implementation
• Experience working with AWS Developer Tools including AWS CodeCommit, AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodeDeploy, and AWS CodePipeline.
• Working knowledge of GitHub and/or GitLab
• Experience developing workshop and presentation content with slides, artifacts, etc. and presenting technical solutions to audiences of varying technical knowledge
• Experience working as a team member within an agile environment
• Demonstrated ability to speak to business value of public cloud solutions
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, as role must be able to conduct client facing conversations to drive success in consulting engagements
• Demonstrate solid interpersonal skills and ability to collaborate with delivery engineering teams
• Ability to create diagrams or visuals that represent proposed architectures using standard diagraming tools (MS Visio, PowerPoint, Lucidchart, Draw.io, etc.) 
• Ability to organize thoughts and ideas into understandable terminology
• Ability to take on multiple assigned tasks, organize, and prioritize

Preferred qualifications

• Desired Certifications: AWS DevOps Engineer, AWS Solution Architect, Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
• Additional technology areas and experience: Linux, PowerShell, BASH Scripting, Cloud platform specific automation tooling, additional scripting languages, additional software development languages, data experience, networking experience
• Experience working as a consultant within professional services

COVID-19 Update:
CDW is committed to maintaining a workplace that is free of known hazards and to ensuring the safety, health, and well-being of coworkers and candidates for employment and their families, as well as the community.

CDW requires all coworkers be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, with the only exceptions being a documented, legally required medical or religious accommodation. Prior to starting CDW, successful candidates will be required to: (i) be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and provide CDW with proof of full vaccination; or (ii) apply for and receive a medical or religious-based accommodation to be exempt from the mandatory vaccination policy.