AWS Software Engineer Cloud Consultant

About the position Summary Vertical Relevance is looking for an AWS Cloud Consultant, to join our team as a full-time employee work remotely. This person is responsible for the end-to-end planning, building, and deploying of software systems. He/she will be able to drive the programming of well-constructed, testable code. As an AWS Cloud Consultant, you will implement technical solutions as part of a team for customer engagements. This role requires strong teamwork, communication, patience and organization skills needed to drive customer success. At Vertical Relevance we deliver with excellence through teamwork, automating everything, constantly learning and taking ownership for the outcomes our customers experience. Are you ready to join the team? The Company Vertical Relevance was founded to help business leaders drive value through the design and delivery of effective transformation programs across people, processes, and systems. Our mission is to help firms at any stage of their journey develop custom solutions for success and growth. We provide a full range of services from strategy and design through to implementation and training. Our collective industry expertise is our greatest asset - our professionals have an average of 20+ years’ experience within Financial Services, across Wealth Management, Asset Management, Insurance, and Banking. Within our Customer Experience practice, we add complementary industry expertise (technology and media) synergizing the most relevant and successful customer trends. We focus wholly on your success by first rigorously assessing your business and technology challenges, and then right-sizing solutions that provide a meaningful ROI. With our industry experts hitting the ground running and focusing on nimble, quality delivery, we can see rapid, tangible improvements with our clients in productivity and effectiveness. When it makes sense for your company, we leverage our product partnerships in the areas of CRM, Sales Acceleration, Predictive Analytics, Digital Knowledge Management, and Cloud Transformation. Vertical Relevance is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. Responsibilities • Help customers shape their journey to adopting the cloud and provide our customers with technical and strategic guidance on their “cloud journey”. • Consult, plan, design, and implement cloud native application solutions with customers • Review existing customer application full stack architectures and propose iteratives to move towards cloud native architecture • Code, test and deploy refinements in customer applications • Build and deploy infrastructure and automate operations for customers • Become a deep technical resource that earns our customer's trust • Develop high-quality technical content such as automation tools, reference architectures, and white papers to help our customers build on the cloud • Innovate on behalf of customers and translate your thoughts into action yielding measurable results. • Support solution development by conveying customer needs and feedback as input to technology roadmaps. • Share real world implementation challenges and recommend expansion of capabilities through enhanced and new offerings. • Assist with technical briefs that document solutions • Assist with reference architecture implementations • Support internal and external brand development through thought leadership: • Work with Marketing/Alliances to write blog posts • Work with Marketing/Alliances to develop internal case studies Requirements • Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts. • 5+ years applied experience and hands on experience with Java, J2EE, Sprint/Spring boot, AWS services, including ECS, EKS, S3, SQS, Lambda, EventBridge, SNS and related technologies a must. • Strong familiarities with micro-service designs and proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle. • Deep technical knowledge of utilizing frameworks to deliver applications and being able to dive deep into code implementations. • You must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future Nice-to-haves • AWS Developer or Architect Certifications • Java development experience • In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems • Proficiency in databases like Oracle and Cassandra (any other no sql database). • Expertise in using monitoring tools like Splunk, Grafana and creating dashboards and alerts using these • Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability • Advanced understanding of agile methodologies • Proficient in implementing Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment practices to streamline software development processes, enhance collaboration, and ensure rapid delivery of high-quality software products. • Skilled in designing and developing applications with robust resiliency features, ensuring they can withstand and recover from failures, maintain availability, and provide consistent performance under varying conditions. • Proficient in integrating security measures within the software development lifecycle, including threat modeling, vulnerability assessment, and implementing best practices to safeguard applications against potential security threats and breaches. • Experience with distributed streaming platform (Kafka) • Professional experience architecting/operating full stack business/consumer/corporate web and mobile applications built on AWS • Core: Terraform, CloudFormation, Azure Devops/TFS, EC2, Lambda, S3, AWS networking, .NET, IIS, MS SQL Server, Java, Apache Tomcat, SNS, Secrets Manager, CloudWatch • Optional: SageMaker, Glue, Firehose, Hashicorp Vault, Dynatrace, Snowflake Apply tot his job

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