Cloud Solutions Architect - AWS

Why WWT?
At World Wide Technology, we work together to make a new world happen. Our important work benefits our clients and partners as much as it does our people and communities across the globe. WWT is dedicated to achieving its mission of creating a profitable growth company that is also a Great Place to Work for All. We achieve this through our world-class culture, generous benefits and by delivering cutting-edge technology solutions for our clients.
Founded in 1990, World Wide Technology (WWT), a global technology solutions provider leading the AI and Digital Revolution, with $20 billion in annual revenue, combines the power of strategy, execution and partnership to accelerate digital transformational outcomes for large public and private organizations around the world. Through its Advanced Technology Center, a collaborative ecosystem of the world's most advanced hardware and software solutions, WWT helps customers and partners conceptualize, test and validate innovative technology solutions for the best business outcomes and then deploys them at scale through its global warehousing, distribution and integration capabilities.
With nearly 10,000 employees and more than 55 locations around the world, WWT's culture, built on a set of core values and established leadership philosophies, has been recognized 13 years in a row by Fortune and Great Place to Work® for its unique blend of determination, innovation and leadership focus on diversity and inclusion. With this culture at its foundation, WWT bridges the gap between business and technology to make a new world happen for its customers, partners, and communities.
Want to work with highly motivated individuals on high-performance teams? Join WWT today!
What is the Solutions Consulting & Engineering (SC&E) Team and why join?
Solutions Consulting & Engineering is an organization that is Customer Focused and Solutions Led. We deliver end-to-end and emerging solutions to drive customer satisfaction, increase profitability and growth. Our success is enabled by our world-class management consulting, delivery excellence and engineering brilliance. Our goal is to bring together business acumen with full-stack technical know-how to develop innovative solutions for our clients' most complex challenges.
Position Overview:
As a Cloud Solution Architect, you function as both a consultant and technical leader. As a consultant, you will meet with the business and IT leaders of our clients, understand their ambitions, and pain points, and develop a vision of how to best solve their problems. As a technical leader, you will actualize the vision by designing and delivering engagements involving WWT's service offerings and technical teams.
You will be responsible for executing our customer-facing engagements, and planning and organizing are two of your strong characteristics. You are willing to take on the responsibility of learning tools of the trade when required, and you enjoy working closely with customers and team members. You will be expected to communicate daily with various internal and external customers and deliver and support customer solutions. The position will have great demands for imaginative thinking, with the need to be flexible and committed. 
You will have the technical acumen with a cloud focus to provide guidance and support to other members of the team to ensure project success. Teamwork is critical to the role, working together to deliver a high quality, reliable service to our customers. We are seeking highly qualified technical experts for this role. You will have a strong broad-based generalist foundation with specialized, proven experience within the Cloud space.
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Key Responsibilities:
 
Technical Leadership

• Design and implement Cloud solutions and service offerings at customer sites - locally, regionally, and nationally - and provide feedback to drive continuous improvement
• Serves as a trusted advisor to clients, adeptly understanding their unique needs and crafting tailored recommendations that drive value and foster long-term partnerships
• Produce architecture designs and solutions for building and maintaining cost-efficient, scalable, and secure cloud environments 
• Lead the creation of High-Level and Low-Level Designs for areas of expertise
• Deliver with strong analytical, quantitative, and conceptual thinking skills and effective interpersonal and communication skills to ensure successful client projects & team performance
• Represent WWT’s technical expertise to team members and customers through an in-depth knowledge of cloud technologies
• Maintain expert level knowledge on WWT solution offerings and industry cloud technologies including the completion of assigned courses and relevant certification exams when applicable.
• Stay current with emerging technologies and advancements within existing technologies
  

Solutions Development:

• Work with WWT account teams to educate them on cloud capabilities and drive business development and sales
• Work with Sales engineers/Cloud consultants to review and validate understanding of customer requirements and translate initial scope into actionable items
• Build relationships across the organization to scope and deliver cross-functional and cross-domain solutions such as Digital, Security, AI, Analytics, Automation, and Enterprise Architecture
• Spearheads the strategic design of innovative solutions by leveraging deep knowledge of the evolving technology landscape and maximizing internal WWT capabilities
• Actively pursue business opportunities at large, complex customers; work with clients and internal WWT Teams to develop and negotiate statements of work, including project scope, deliverables, timelines, and costs.
• Builds productive solution development teams, leveraging junior team members to support their growth and development
  

Qualifications:

• A minimum of 7 years progressive experience in a related field required
• A minimum of 5 years of experience designing, deploying, and implementing Private, Public, and Hybrid Cloud technologies in accordance with industry best practices
• Bachelor’s Degree in a related field (i.e. Computer Science, Information Systems, or Engineering)
• Willing to travel 30-40%
• Understanding of Public, Private, & Hybrid Cloud Strategies
• Expert level experience with AWS Cloud Platform technologies
• Deep understanding of Cloud ecosystem products and solutions
• Strong organizational and analytical skills
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal with great attention to detail 
• Independent and self-motivated and thorough
• Troubleshooting skills (patience and determination to find and solve problems) 
• Ability to understand technology interdependencies and how various components integrate with one another 
  

Strongly Desired Skills: 

• Expert-level industry certifications related to AWS Cloud Platform (i.e. AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional, DevOps Engineer Professional)
• Specialized expertise in one or more of the following:
• Cloud container management and Kubernetes platforms (i.e. EKS, Fargate)
• Cloud AI and data platform technologies (i.e. Bedrock, Redshift, Kinesis, Glue)
• Cloud strategy and adoption patterns
• Cloud modernization and migration
• Application architecture and development in the cloud (i.e. .NET Core, Java, etc. in Elastic Beanstalk, Lightsail, or containers)
• Core Cloud infrastructure - Networking (i.e. Direct Connect, Cloud WAN), Security (i.e. AWS Network Firewall, 3rd party ISVs), Compute, and Storage
• Experience with CI/CD pipeline development for automated cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (i.e. CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible), application code deployments (i.e. GitOps) and associated agile tools (i.e. JIRA)
• Experience with scripting languages such as Python, PowerShell, JavaScript, etc. 
• Fluent understanding of Agile and/or ITIL
• Understanding of the Cloud Cost models and Optimization strategies 
• Experience working with and integrating other vendors such as VMware, PaloAlto, NetApp, Red Hat and other cloud technologies and ISVs
• Experience and working knowledge of infrastructure concepts and technologies such as Virtualization, Networking, Data Center, and Security
  

The well-being of WWT employees is essential. So, when it comes to our benefits package, WWT has one of the best. We offer the following benefits to all full-time employees:

• Health and Wellbeing: Health, Dental, and Vision Care, Onsite Health Centers, Employee Assistance Program, Wellness program
• Financial Benefits: Competitive pay, Profit Sharing, 401k Plan with Company Matching, Life and Disability Insurance, Tuition Reimbursement
• Paid Time Off: PTO & Holidays, Parental Leave, Sick Leave, Military Leave, Bereavement
• Additional Perks: Nursing Mothers Benefits, Voluntary Legal, Pet Insurance, Employee Discount Program
  

Equal Opportunity Employer Minorities/Women/Veterans/Individuals With Disabilities
Preferred locations include AL, AK, AZ, AR, DE, FL, GA, ID, IL, IN, IA, KS, KY, LA, ME, MA, MI, MN, MS, MO, MT, NE, NH, NJ, NY, NC, ND, OK, OR, PA, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, WV, WI, WY. Other locations will be considered based on fit.