DevOps Consultant- Telco, Professional Services

DESCRIPTION

Are you interested in helping the Telecommunications Operators implement innovative computing solutions and solve technical problems? Do you like to work on a variety of projects, leading customer and partner teams to achieve best practices? Do you want to design and develop integrated solutions using the latest services and technologies? Do you like to work on-site in a variety of business environments, leading teams through high impact projects, at the forefront of technology adoption?

The operating model is the combination of cultural philosophies, practices, and tools that helps organizations deliver end-to-end applications and solutions safely and at high velocity. The Senior is a leader with significant automation and programming experience throughout the SDLC. The will lead our customers through large organizational and SDLC transformations. A successful practitioner has technical depth across the Full Spectrum along with leading and evangelizing transformations, and driving innovations.

Responsibilities Include

• Expertise – Collaborate with field sales, pre-sales, training and support teams to help partners and customers learn how to leverage their existing investment in operational capability and tooling.
• Solutions – Define and deliver on-site technical engagements with partners and customers. This includes participating in pre-sales on-site visits, understanding customer requirements, proposing and delivering packaged offerings, and delivering custom solution engagements, specifically focused on ITSM tooling and .
• Delivery – Engagements include short on-site projects proving the use of services to support new distributed computing solutions that often span private and public services. Engagements will include and adaption of existing operations monitoring, and orchestration systems to extend an ’s capabilities into services.
• Insights – Work with engineering and support teams to convey partner and customer needs and feedback as input to technology roadmaps. Share real world implementation challenges and recommend new capabilities that would simplify adoption and drive greater value from use of services. Contribute to best practice in the form of whitepapers and playbooks.
• Partnering – Work with new vendors to help them become MSPs and enable and upskill existing partners.

Our Consultants work with Telco customers locally, regionally and internationally. As such, Consultants must have the ability to travel to client locations to sell and deliver professional services as needed.

About The Team

Inclusive Team Culture

Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Work/Life Balance

We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.

Mentorship & Career Growth

We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor Degree or equivalent experience.
• Experience as a technical specialist.
• Experience working with customers face to face, leading and driving discussions with senior personnel regarding trade-offs, best practices, project management and risk mitigation
• Strong verbal and written communications skills and ability to lead effectively across organizations
• Demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges
• Hands-on experience with architecting and automating native technologies, deploying real-world production environments and applications, and provisioning IaC, IaaS, and SaaS
• Hands-on experience with envisioning, designing, building and managing release systems, code merging and promotion, and CI/CD workflows and tools.
• Strong hands-on experience with mainline programming and scripting languages such as Shell, Python, Ruby, Perl, Java, .Net, or C++.
• Strong practical Linux and Windows-based systems administration skills in a or Virtualized environment.
• Proven experience with software development life cycle (SDLC) and agile/iterative methodologies required, commensurate modern certifications , Agile, Scrum, SAFe, etc.
• Experience with microservices and distributed .
• Ability to travel to client locations to deliver professional services as needed

Preferred Qualifications

• Masters degree in Computer Science
• Experience with CloudFormation, Chef, Puppet, Salt, or Ansible in production environments.
• Knowledge of IP networking, VPN’s, DNS, load balancing and firewall.
• Experience with monitoring and log aggregating frameworks like CloudWatch, Datadog, Splunk, Opentracing, X-Ray, and APM tools.
• Experience with revision control source code repositories (Git, SVN, Mercurial, Perforce).
• Experience in management of continuous servers like Jenkins, Bamboo and TeamCity.
• Experience with automated testing tools (ie. Selenium, JMeter).
• Understanding and experience with code deployment (tagging).
• Understanding of Service-Oriented (SOA and REST).
• Experience with development and automated testing.
• Understanding of microservices and distributed .
• Understanding of native security requirements.
• Strong verbal and written communications skills and ability to lead effectively across organizations and engagements

Company – Amazon Web Services EMEA Dubai

Job ID: A2157597