AWS Software Engineer Cloud Consultant

Summary

Vertical Relevance is looking for an AWS Cloud Consultant to join our team as a full‑time employee working remotely. This person is responsible for the end‑to‑end planning, building and deploying of software systems. They 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 expect.

• Help customers shape their journey to adopting the cloud and provide 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 iterations 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 customers’ 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 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.

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts.
• 5 years applied experience and hands‑on experience with Java, J2EE, Spring, Spring Boot, AWS services including ECS, EKS, S3, SQS, Lambda, Event Bridge, SNS and related technologies a must.
• Strong familiarity with micro‑service designs and proficiency 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.

• 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

• Terraform, Cloud Formation, Azure Dev Ops / TFS, EC2, Lambda, S3, AWS IIS, MS SQL Server, Java, Apache Tomcat, SNS, Secrets Manager, Cloud Watch

• Sage Maker, Glue, Firehose, Hashi Corp Vault, Dynatrace, Snowflake