Job Description
Job Duties
- As the AWS Cloud Architect, you will be technically focused, but also understand and implement business planning
- Be the technical liaison between customers and engineering resources
- Provide tactical scope and work directly with the business representatives/customers to understand the requirements driving the need for a solution to be developed
- Communicate effectively with both business and technical colleagues throughout the course of the project
- Ensure that all the appropriate questions are asked and verify that nothing crucial to the success of the project is overlooked
- Be an AWS Cloud evangelist by educating a variety of customers on the value of AWS
- Help customers transition to the cloud in a high-value migration approach that leverages best-of-breed designs and practices delivered in an agile model
- Work with customers to enable a DevOps culture and modernize operations and release strategies
- Establish credibility and build impactful relationships with our customers to enable them to be cloud advocates
- Participate in deep architectural discussions to build confidence and ensure customer success when building new or migrating existing applications, software, and services on the AWS Cloud Platform.
- Conduct deep-dive “hands-on” education/training sessions to transfer knowledge to customers interested in AWS and to ensure our SAs are up to date
- Traveling up to 20% of the time for candidates outside of Mexico City
Requirements
- Fluent, bilingual (Spanish and English)
- a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience
- 2-3 years of design & implementation experience with distributed applications
- 2-3 years of experience in networking, infrastructure, or database architectures
- Strong, in-depth understanding and professional experience with AWS Cloud services and infrastructure
- "Hands-on" experience with tooling and services related to cloud Automation, IaC, and DevOps:
- Terraform, Git (one or more: GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket), CICD pipelines (one or more: GitHub actions, GitLab CICD, Bitbucket pipelines, Jenkins, ArgoCD, Azure DevOps), K8S/Kubernetes, Docker, Ansible, AWS CLI, CloudFormation
- "Hands-on" experience with tooling and services related to Large Cloud Migrations: AWS MGN, AWS DMS/SCT, AWS DRS
- "Hands-on" experience with tooling and services related to Database deployments and admin: Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL
- Demonstrated knowledge of software development tools and methodologies
- Source code management: Git
- Artifacts management (one or more): Artifactory, Nexus, S3, Blob storage, etc
- CICD (one or more: GitHub actions, GitLab CICD, Bitbucket pipelines, Jenkins, ArgoCD, Azure DevOps)
- Strong Presentation skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with executives, IT management, and developers.
- Excellent communication skills with an ability to right level conversations
- Demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly
Preferred Qualifications
- 3-5+ years of experience in customer-facing software/technology or consulting
- 3-3+ years of experience with “on-premises to cloud” migrations or IT transformations
- 3+ years of experience architecting/operating solutions built on AWS (ideally) or AWS/Azure
- AWS Professional or Associate Cloud Architect certification and/or other AWS Cloud certifications
- Technical degree; Computer Science or related
About Rackspace Technology
We are the multicloud solutions experts. We combine our expertise with the world’s leading technologies — across applications, data and security — to deliver end-to-end solutions. We have a proven record of advising customers based on their business challenges, designing solutions that scale, building and managing those solutions, and optimizing returns into the future. Named a best place to work, year after year according to Fortune, Forbes and Glassdoor, we attract and develop world-class talent. Join us on our mission to embrace technology, empower customers and deliver the future.
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Though we’re all different, Rackers thrive through our connection to a central goal: to be a valued member of a winning team on an inspiring mission. We bring our whole selves to work every day. And we embrace the notion that unique perspectives fuel innovation and enable us to best serve our customers and communities around the globe. We welcome you to apply today and want you to know that we are committed to offering equal employment opportunity without regard to age, color, disability, gender reassignment or identity or expression, genetic information, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity status, military or veteran status, nationality, ethnic or national origin, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or any legally protected characteristic. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.
