Vertical Relevance
Summary
Vertical Relevance is looking for an AWS App Modernization Consultant, to join our team as a full?time employee in our New York or New Jersey office or 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?structured, testable code. As an AWS App Modernization 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? 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 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 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
Qualifications
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 Experience in software/technology customer facing experience
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
Sample Activities Youll Do Cloud Native Application Re?Architecture
Assist Customer with architectural reviews of existing application design and how to migrate it to AWS
Assist Customer in identifying aspects of existing applications that are prospects for migration to cloud native services to enable cost efficiency, security, performance, resiliency
Review Customer's existing application monitoring and operational processes and tools and recommend how they can take advantage
Assist Customer in identifying how to decompose large applications with monolith designs into smaller decoupled implementations that can be deployed separately through DevOps practices and enable efficiencies in the Software Development Lifecycle
Assist Customer with migration activities associated with existing application moves to AWS
Deliver code and configuration changes in applications to adopt approved designs
Implement automated testing capabilities to effectively test the application changes
Assist Customer in adopting recommended practices in DevOps on AWS to improve efficiency in the Software Development Lifecycle
Creating a Self?Service Pipeline Framework
Assist Customers in defining Customers DevOps Framework capabilities based on Customers identified business outcomes
Assist Customer with reviewing the DevOps Framework architecture against Customers identified business outcomes, to include providing general recommendations to help Customer close any observed gaps
Provide Customer with AWS general best practices that may help Customer refine identified deployments
Assist Customer with defining the first iteration of minimum viable product (MVP) for the DevOps Framework. Deploying ASP.NET web apps and building new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances
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 Deploying Python on AWS Lambda
Deploying Java on AWS Lambda
Blue/green deployments on Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
Deploying to existing Amazon EC2 instances (Windows operating system)
Provisioning dashboards to monitor deployments
Assist Customer in developing and implementing the first iteration of MVP in a non?production environment, under Customers direction and using AWS general best practices
Assist Customer with identifying next steps and proposing activities for a future follow?on engagement
Provide knowledge transfer to Customers stakeholders on the DevOps Framework
Relevant Technical Tools
Primary Languages & Frameworks Python, Java, JavaScript, NodeJs, ReactJS, Angular, Vue, Ruby, SQL, SOAP, REST, GraphQL, gRPC
Tooling, Services & Libraries Jenkins, Gitlab, Terraform, Vault, Git, Subversion, Docker, Kubernetes, DataDog, Apache, NGINX, IIS
Databases MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server
Relevant AWS Services
AWS Infrastructure Scripting CloudFormation, AWS CLI, AWS CDK
AWS Storage Services S3, EBS
AWS Compute Services EC2, ECS, EKS, ECR, Lambda, Batch, Elastic Beanstalk
AWS Database Services RDS, DynamoDB, ElastiCache
AWS Networking Services VPC, Route53, API Gateway, CloudFront, App Mesh, Global Accelerator
AWS Developer Services CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeCommit, CodeDeploy, X?Ray
AWS Management and Governance Services CloudWatch
AWS Security, Identity, Compliance Services IAM, Key Management Service, Secrets Manager, Cognito, Certificate Manager, WAF & Shield
AWS Application Integration Services SNS, SQS, Step Functions, Simple Workflow, EventBridge, Appflow
AWS Front?End Web & Mobile Amplify, AppSync, Device Farm, Amazon Location Service
AWS Frameworks Serverless Application Model (SAM)
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. #J-18808-Ljbffr
Vertical Relevance is looking for an AWS App Modernization Consultant, to join our team as a full?time employee in our New York or New Jersey office or 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?structured, testable code. As an AWS App Modernization 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? 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 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 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
Qualifications
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 Experience in software/technology customer facing experience
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
Sample Activities Youll Do Cloud Native Application Re?Architecture
Assist Customer with architectural reviews of existing application design and how to migrate it to AWS
Assist Customer in identifying aspects of existing applications that are prospects for migration to cloud native services to enable cost efficiency, security, performance, resiliency
Review Customer's existing application monitoring and operational processes and tools and recommend how they can take advantage
Assist Customer in identifying how to decompose large applications with monolith designs into smaller decoupled implementations that can be deployed separately through DevOps practices and enable efficiencies in the Software Development Lifecycle
Assist Customer with migration activities associated with existing application moves to AWS
Deliver code and configuration changes in applications to adopt approved designs
Implement automated testing capabilities to effectively test the application changes
Assist Customer in adopting recommended practices in DevOps on AWS to improve efficiency in the Software Development Lifecycle
Creating a Self?Service Pipeline Framework
Assist Customers in defining Customers DevOps Framework capabilities based on Customers identified business outcomes
Assist Customer with reviewing the DevOps Framework architecture against Customers identified business outcomes, to include providing general recommendations to help Customer close any observed gaps
Provide Customer with AWS general best practices that may help Customer refine identified deployments
Assist Customer with defining the first iteration of minimum viable product (MVP) for the DevOps Framework. Deploying ASP.NET web apps and building new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances
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 Deploying Python on AWS Lambda
Deploying Java on AWS Lambda
Blue/green deployments on Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
Deploying to existing Amazon EC2 instances (Windows operating system)
Provisioning dashboards to monitor deployments
Assist Customer in developing and implementing the first iteration of MVP in a non?production environment, under Customers direction and using AWS general best practices
Assist Customer with identifying next steps and proposing activities for a future follow?on engagement
Provide knowledge transfer to Customers stakeholders on the DevOps Framework
Relevant Technical Tools
Primary Languages & Frameworks Python, Java, JavaScript, NodeJs, ReactJS, Angular, Vue, Ruby, SQL, SOAP, REST, GraphQL, gRPC
Tooling, Services & Libraries Jenkins, Gitlab, Terraform, Vault, Git, Subversion, Docker, Kubernetes, DataDog, Apache, NGINX, IIS
Databases MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server
Relevant AWS Services
AWS Infrastructure Scripting CloudFormation, AWS CLI, AWS CDK
AWS Storage Services S3, EBS
AWS Compute Services EC2, ECS, EKS, ECR, Lambda, Batch, Elastic Beanstalk
AWS Database Services RDS, DynamoDB, ElastiCache
AWS Networking Services VPC, Route53, API Gateway, CloudFront, App Mesh, Global Accelerator
AWS Developer Services CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeCommit, CodeDeploy, X?Ray
AWS Management and Governance Services CloudWatch
AWS Security, Identity, Compliance Services IAM, Key Management Service, Secrets Manager, Cognito, Certificate Manager, WAF & Shield
AWS Application Integration Services SNS, SQS, Step Functions, Simple Workflow, EventBridge, Appflow
AWS Front?End Web & Mobile Amplify, AppSync, Device Farm, Amazon Location Service
AWS Frameworks Serverless Application Model (SAM)
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. #J-18808-Ljbffr