Delivery Consultant: Modernization Engineer

Job ID: | Amazon Web Services Australia Pty Ltd

The Amazon Web Services Professional Services (ProServe) team is seeking a skilled Delivery Consultant to join our team at Amazon Web Services (AWS). In this role, you'll work closely with customers to design, implement, and manage AWS solutions that meet their technical requirements and business objectives. You'll be a key player in driving customer success through their cloud journey, providing technical expertise and best practices throughout the project lifecycle.

Possessing a deep understanding of AWS products and services, as a Delivery Consultant you will be proficient in architecting complex, scalable, and secure solutions tailored to meet the specific needs of each customer. You'll work closely with stakeholders to gather requirements, assess current infrastructure, and propose effective migration strategies to AWS. As trusted advisors to our customers, providing guidance on industry trends, emerging technologies, and innovative solutions, you will be responsible for leading the implementation process, ensuring adherence to best practices, optimizing performance, and managing risks throughout the project.

You'll play a crucial role in helping customers modernize their applications and database systems, leveraging modern architectures including containerization, serverless computing, and cloud-native databases. While database modernization is a key focus, you'll have the opportunity to work across the full spectrum of application modernization initiatives.

The AWS Professional Services organization is a global team of experts that help customers realize their desired business outcomes when using the AWS Cloud. We work together with customer teams and the AWS Partner Network (APN) to execute enterprise cloud computing initiatives. Our team provides assistance through a collection of offerings which help customers achieve specific outcomes related to enterprise cloud adoption. We also deliver focused guidance through our global specialty practices, which cover a variety of solutions, technologies, and industries.

Must hold or be able to attain an Australian Government Security Vetting Agency clearance (see ).

Key job responsibilities

• Designing and implementing complex, scalable, and secure AWS solutions tailored to customer needs

• Providing technical guidance and troubleshooting support throughout project delivery

• Collaborating with stakeholders to gather requirements and propose effective modernization strategies

• Acting as a trusted advisor to customers on industry trends and emerging technologies

• Sharing knowledge within the organization through mentoring, training, and creating reusable artifacts

• Leading database modernization initiatives, from assessment through implementation

• Architecting modern, cloud-native solutions using containers, microservices, and serverless technologies

• Designing and implementing database migration strategies and optimization solutions

• Enabling customers' DevOps transformation through modern CI/CD practices

A day in the life
AWS Global Services includes experts from across AWS who help our customers design, build, operate, and secure their cloud environments. Customers innovate with AWS Professional Services, upskill with AWS Training and Certification, optimize with AWS Support and Managed Services, and meet objectives with AWS Security Assurance Services. Our expertise and emerging technologies include AWS Partners, AWS Sovereign Cloud, AWS International Product, and the Generative AI Innovation Center. You'll join a diverse team of technical experts in dozens of countries who help customers achieve more with the AWS cloud

About the team
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- Knowledge of the primary aws services (ec2, elb, rds, route53 & s3)
- Experience implementing AWS services in a variety of distributed computing environments
- 4+ years of programming in Python, Ruby, Go, Swift, Java, .Net, C++ or similar object oriented language experience
- Experience with cloud native technologies
- Experience in linux and windows-based systems administration in a cloud or virtualized environment

- 5+ years of IT implementation experience
- Experience and technical expertise (design and implementation) in cloud computing technologies
- Experience leading the design, development and deployment of business software at scale or recent hands-on technology infrastructure, network, compute, storage, and virtualization experience
- Experience in automation through devops scripting (e.g. shell, python, ruby, powershell)
- Experience facilitating discussions with senior leadership regarding technical / architectural trade-offs, best practices, and risk mitigation

Acknowledgement of country:
In the spirit of reconciliation Amazon acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.

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