India onlyAHEAD builds platforms for digital business, creating a culture of belonging and empowerment. We are an equal opportunity employer, prioritizing diversity and inclusivity. We are seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer with extensive knowledge and experience to design, develop, and deploy solutions for various technologies.
Requirements
- Customer-facing role for a minimum of 5+ years
- 3+ years designing, securing, and deploying large-scale applications and solutions
- Experience with one of the major cloud vendor environments (development, access, migration)
- Subject matter expert in at least one major cloud provider (AWS)
- Architect level development skills in at least one development language (Java, Python, PowerShell, etc.)
- Strong CI/CD/DevOps skills and understanding of pipelines, workflows, BitBucket is strongly preferred, GitHub actions, etc.
- Strong CloudFormation and Terraform development experience
- Strong networking skills are a must, being able to work with and explain the various technologies involved
- Strong skills integrating third party tools and solutions
- Strong project and situational awareness
- Strong attention to detail
- Self-starter and shows initiative to get work completed
- Well organized
- Recognized Technical Expertise
- Proven skills in multiple billable technologies (as measured by certification/approved training completion/proven abilities)
- Recognized subject matter expert in professional discipline
- Depth of knowledge and experience enables contribution in a more complex/critical environment
- Contributions often exceed the full requirements of the expected competencies relative to one’s current job title
- Lead vs Contribute
- Can participate with and lead a team of technical delivery resources across skillsets within a practice to help achieve customer’s business goals and technology needs
- Can participate in and lead written deliverable creation across areas of expertise
- Provides measurable input into AHEAD new products, processes, standards, and / or plans
- Able to provide time estimates for work that needs to be accomplished based on the available information
- Coordinates cross-practice and can contribute to cross-practice deliverables using current templates
- Prioritizes and completes tasks independently on-time or ahead of schedule
- Able to lead development and testing activities
- Achieve high team standards. Contribute to the refinement of methodology and best practices to establish quality and effectiveness
- Initiate and participate in authoring PCR requests when additional work is being requested
- Architect Skills
- Depth and demonstrated expertise across at least one technology
- Able to architect and lead deployment of moderately complex solutions related to cloud solutions
- Understands performance, scaling and functional characteristics of software technologies
- Ability to understand open-source and cloud use-cases, and recommend standard design patterns commonly used in such solutions (best practices)
- Communications
- Communicates with external customers, which may include senior management, on matters that require explanation, interpretation, and/or advising
- Often exceeds expectations with respect to customer expectations (communications, meets commitments, etc.)
- Able to work with outside vendors on internal or customer related issues
- Participate in pre-sales activities including scoping, positioning, technology adoption and maturation
- Able to identify new client opportunities inside of the POD and communicate those to upper management including the Team Lead
- Can communicate beyond tactics and technology and can help customers management set strategic direction
- Can write and lead complex deliverables within the practice
- Ability to understand and translate customer requirements into technical requirements
- Leadership and Influence
- Works to influence direct team members, broader internal team, and external customers, to agree and accept new concepts, best practices, and approaches
- Advises and trains more junior staff via mentorship while helping to drive the entire AHEAD platform
- A reliable resource for marketing on thought leadership pieces for their practice for AHEAD and our customers
- Has started speaking at industry conferences and/or webinars
- Contributes to more complex workshops and understands how their area of expertise fits into our stitching message
- Accepts responsibility for own actions and sometimes those of others as part of a team
- Works well with immediate, extend and external teams, a true team player
- Consistently meets expectations in terms of customer facing, writing, presentation and problem-solving skills and requires little to no supervision in this area
- Consistently exhibits a positive attitude towards AHEAD and its customers
- Willing to go the extra mile when asked to do so (i.e., time outside of normal working hours to support a customer initiative, production roll-out, could also be > 40 hours for short intervals)
- Consistently pursues self-development and drives the AHEAD business model for self and sometimes others on the team
- Highly respected by peers and sales team
- Culture : Support initiatives beyond area of responsibility
- Encourage cross team interaction
- Motivate people to think creatively
- Achieve success through others
Benefits
- Comprehensive health insurance coverage for employees, with options to extend coverage to dependents
- Paid time off and company holidays, along with additional leave benefits as per policy
- Flexible work arrangements, supporting work-life balance
- Learning and development opportunities to support continuous growth and upskilling
- Employee wellness initiatives and programs focused on physical and mental well-being
- Retirement and statutory benefits in line with India regulations
