Cloud Architect

About Bespin Global

Bespin Global is a recognized and certified PS and Managed Service Provider (MSP) for AWS, Azure, and GCP. We were positioned as a Leader in the 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant report for Public Cloud Infrastructure Professional and Managed Services, which we believe validates our role as world class cloud experts and advisors. We have more than 1000 customers worldwide and we help them gain a competitive edge through the cloud.

Hundreds of cloud experts working at Bespin Global are our most proud and valued assets. Our experts with experience and knowledge in the cloud work tirelessly to advise, migrate, operate, and manage our customer's cloud journey.

Who we're looking for -

We are looking for experienced cloud experts with a proven track record of delivering results in professional services for AWS cloud who will help customers build new AWS solutions or migrate existing workloads to AWS.

Being an experienced technologist with technical depth and breadth, aided with strong interpersonal skills, you will work directly with customers as part of a professional services delivery team helping to enable innovation through continuous delivery across technology stacks and creating robust solution designs that align with customer's business goals.

Using your insight and experience, you will design architectures and provide the delivery AWS engineers with prescriptive guidance across network, storage, operating systems, virtualization, RDBMS & NoSQL databases, security, and automation. In addition, you will work with mid-tier technologies that include application integration, in-memory caches, security, and much more!

The qualified AWS Cloud Architect will have demonstrated the ability to think strategically about businesses, create technical definitions around customer objectives in complex situations, develop solution strategies, motivate & mobilize resources, and deliver results.

The ability to connect technology with measurable business value is a critical component to being successful in this role.

We seek team members who are self-motivated, driven, collaborative, passionate about AWS Cloud and want to have a direct positive impact on our customer's business.

Strong communication skills and emotional intelligence are also needed to help develop a team reporting to you.

What you'll be doing -

o As an AWS Cloud Architect, you will be technically focused but also will understand and implement business planning

o Be the technical liaison between customers and engineering resources

o Provide tactical scope and work directly with the business representatives/customers to understand the requirements driving the need for a solution to be developed

o Communicate effectively with both business and technical colleagues throughout the course of the project

o Ensure that all the appropriate questions are asked and verify that nothing crucial to the success of the project is overlooked

o Be an AWS Cloud evangelist by educating a variety of customers on the value of AWS

o 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

o Establish credibility and build impactful relationships with our customers to enable them to be cloud advocates

o Participate in deep architectural discussions to build confidence and ensure customer success when building new solutions, or migrating existing workloads on the AWS Cloud

o Conduct deep-dive "hands-on" education/training sessions to transfer knowledge to customers interested in ASW and to ensure our AWS Engineers are up to date

Requirements -

o 3+ years design & implementation experience with distributed applications

o 3+ years of experience in networking, infrastructure, or database architectures

o In-depth understanding and professional experience with AWS services and infrastructure

o "Hands-on" experience with practices and services related to Automation & IaC

o Presentation skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with executives, IT management, and developers

o Excellent communication skills with an ability to right level conversations

o Demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly

Nice to have

o 2+ years of experience in customer-facing software/technology or consulting role

o 2+ years of experience with "on-premises to cloud" migrations or IT transformations

o 2+ years of experience architecting/operating solutions built on AWS

o Technical degree - Computer Science or related

o AWS Solution Architect Professional certification and/or other AWS Cloud certifications