[Remote] Cloud Architecture Consultant

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Oxenham Group is seeking a Cloud Architecture Consultant who will lead technical engagements and deliver high-quality solutions for clients. The role involves architecting AWS solutions, collaborating with delivery teams, and ensuring technical excellence throughout client projects.

Responsibilities

• Map out and document an AWS system that fits a customer's specific needs and constraints
• Sit down with a customer or colleague to diagnose an issue, share knowledge, and clear a path forward
• Team up with an Engagement Manager to shape how something gets communicated to the client
• Pull together requirements, capture the current state, and walk the customer through your proposed approach
• Hop on a pre-sales conversation to show a prospect the kind of expertise they'd be buying
• Push leading-practice architecture into every assigned client engagement
• Architect and stand up AWS solutions — landing zones, container platforms, hosting environments, data storage — drawing on services like Control Tower, EKS/ECS, S3, Transit Gateway, and EC2
• Run cost-benefit and risk-reward analysis to inform decisions
• Clout solution designs, build-and-deploy plans, and the high-level validation steps the delivery team will execute
• Carry accountability for the technical success of client projects overall
• Work with technology leadership to sharpen delivery processes and lift technical efficacy over time
• Help sequence and prioritize infrastructure work, break down the scope, clear roadblocks, and settle solution-design disagreements collaboratively
• Coach team members on leading practices
• Walk clients through the why behind a solution and the practices that support it
• Bring technical stakeholders to consensus
• Touch base with the team daily to track progress
• Press the team on their technical approaches and hold them to delivering on them
• Log time against assigned projects each day
• Keep your work visible and operate openly
• Respond promptly when teammates need information
• Share how you work best and learn the same about others to build a team that runs with respect and efficiency

Skills

• 5+ years of continuous experience as a Solution Architect, including in parallel
• 3+ years architecting AWS infrastructure
• 3+ years building AWS infrastructure, to include
• 1+ year of infrastructure-as-code work (Terraform preferred)
• 1+ year on a DevOps toolchain (GitHub, GitLab, AWS Code Suite, etc.)
• At least one AWS Professional-level certification
• Solid command of current AWS cloud security practices
• Skilled in IaC development (Terraform, AWS CloudFormation)
• Comfortable scripting configuration management with tools like Ansible, Chef, or Puppet
• Working proficiency in one or more programming/scripting languages (Python, Java, Node, etc.)
• Familiar with both Agile and Waterfall delivery models
• Able to run multiple client engagements in parallel
• Detail-oriented
• Strong communicator with disciplined time management
• Container development
• Container orchestration on platforms such as Kubernetes, Docker, and AWS EKS
• Additional AWS certifications (Developer Associate, SysOps Administrator Associate, Solutions Architect Associate, etc.)
• Wiring static and dynamic code-analysis tools into CI/CD pipelines
• Use of code-analysis and observability tools such as AWS X-Ray, AppDynamics, or Dynatrace
• Prior management experience is a plus, though this is an individual-contributor role
• Comfortable working an Eastern Time schedule while supporting customers in other regions

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