Senior Technical Consultant, Platform Engineering

Serving as a technical thought leader and SME for our ecosystem of partners, customers, and service providers in the realm of Modern Apps & Platform Engineering, the Senior Technical Consultant works as part of the consulting team to lead the development, design, implementation and engagement leader of client solutions. Senior Technical Consultants mentor and provide direction to engineers on a project by project basis and within the broader organization as it relates to internal initiatives and indirect project support. 

Roles and Responsibilities

• Designs and Implements complex, mission-critical transformational enterprise grade technical solutions for clients.
• Develops high quality deliverables and presentations for Client engineering teams and senior leaders.
• Creates and presents solution designs, options, ideas, and innovations to clients’ senior leadership teams.
• Develops and Maintains Technical Roadmaps and Innovation Plans.
• Develops and Implements CICD solutions.
• Establishes project estimates and plans, identifies risks and mitigations, oversees development and delivery of technical solutions.
• Mentor and support project teammates
• Actively lead collaboration within our technical communities 

Qualifications

• Experience and Ability to “jump on a whiteboard” in front of a customer to develop a solution to a business / technology goal or challenge.
• 6+ years of IT experience and 3+ years of Cloud, DevOps, Automation, Application Modernization, Digital Transformation experience.
• Strong consulting and business acumen
• Multiple certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect Pro, AWS DevOps Engineer Pro, Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Azure DevOps Engineer Expert, Terraform Associate, Etc.
• Hands-on experience designing and implementing Platform core services around Compute, Storage, Networking, Databases, Containers, Security, Identity, etc.
• Experience with organizational adoption of transformational initiatives – Platform Engineering, DevOps, DevSecOps, Cloud Transformation, Application Modernization
• Hands-on experience with IaC tools such as Terraform, Ansible, ARM, CloudFormation
• Experience with using and managing deployment services such as Harness, GitHub, Ansible, Jenkins, etc. Knowledge and usage of branching strategies is required.
• Hands-on experience in programming with Python or any scripting language.
• Excellent written & verbal communication and interpersonal skills.
• Knowledge of modern cloud-native application design principles, DevSecOps, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CICD Pipelines. 
• Knowledge of enterprise organizations across multiple industries and inner IT functions (e.g. Enterprise Architecture, Operations)