Title: Sr. Associate / Associate - Cloud Consultant Location: REMOTE Duration: 6 months - Contract to FTE Conversion Compensation: $50-$70.00 Work Requirements: US Citizen or GC Holders Basic qualifications for this associate-level position include: Successful candidates typically have 2-4+ years of experience in the following areas:

• Experience delivering engineering solutions as code on client cloud platforms to include, to Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and other common Cloud IaaS and SaaS solutions (e.g. Oracle OCI, Alibaba, DigitalOcean).
• Hands-on cloud engineering and architecture expertise across cloud technologies and Transformation initiatives including: Cloud Transformation Strategy and Operating Models, Core Platform Engineering, Cloud Security, Cloud Centers of Excellence, DevSecOps, Cloud Operations, Application Disposition, Modernization, and Migration, and Applied Cloud Engineering in AI and Data Analytics.
• Experience in cloud architecture design and software development to include the development of Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Policy as Code (PaC), and cloud automation and integration software packages.
• Design, architect, implement and support simple to complex enterprise Cloud solutions for a variety of business use cases and requirements. Guide and mentor clients through the end to end cloud journey.
• Work as part of integrated squads of consultants and cloud engineers.
• Development of internal solution summaries and accelerator tool kits.
• Building demonstration scenarios and prototypes.
• Collaborating and working effectively with consultants in other regions and practices.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or graduate degree and 2-4 years of related work experience
• Proficiency with popular Cloud technologies (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Experience developing and implementing at-scale cloud and hybrid architectures
• Ability to deliver end-to-end automation in a cloud environment
• Experience with software build automation, CI / CD pipelines, and a DevSecOps approach to technology delivery
• Experience with private, public and hybrid Cloud deployments
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Policy as Code (PaC) experience
• Proficiency in Terraform and CSP native IaC languages (CloudFormation, ARM, Bicep)Proficiency in Python, Java, Powershell, C# .Net Bash, PowerShell, or Go. or alternative equivalent languages
• Knowledge of networking, security principles, and DevSecOps best practices.
• Ability to communicate effectively, both in writing, using presentations, and verbally
• Ability to interact effectively with internal and external resources at all organizational levels
• Experience guiding clients in the adoption of cloud-native, serverless, and containerized architectures (AWS, Azure, GCP).

The following qualifications are preferred:

• Landing Zone Development and Deployment
• Cloud Managed Service Development and Delivery
• Experience with SIEM and SOC operations and technology stack to include Microsoft Sentinel and Microsoft Purview
• Experience performing technology assessments, gap analysis, audits and providing recommendations for improvement
• Cloud Security and Cloud FinOps approaches and tooling
• Cloud security frameworks, maturity models, and benchmarks (CSA CCM, NIST 800-53, CMMC, CIS etc)
• Certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, or Google Professional Cloud Architect. AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Azure DevOps Expert, Google Professional DevOps Engineer.
• Proficiency with AWS Security Center and popular security services (IAM, Key Vault, etc.)
• Cloud FinOps experience. Familiarity with AWS Cost Explorer, CUR, Budgets, CUDOS and Azure Cost Management, Analysis, Budgets Cost Alerts, Anomaly Detection
• Knowledge and proficiency with popular cloud security services (VPC, RDS, IAM, WAF, IDS/IPS, AS3, SQS, SNS, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Inspector, Config, etc.)
• Experience with logging & monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK, Splunk).
• GenAI infrastructure platform design and development
• DevOps tooling experience such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Azure DevOps or alternative CI / CD automation and orchestration tools
• Experience with CSP container registries and orchestration services (Kubernetes, Docker, ECR, ECS, EKS, Fargate, AKS, ACA, ACI, ACR ) and container security leading practices
• A minimum 3.0 GPA in technical coursework

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