AWS Architect/Project Manager

AWS Architect/Project Manager

Hybrid 3-4 days each week onsite ( may have some more remote days as this rolls out, depends on the consultant)

Location is Downtown Chicago, IL

Start is mid-November , but can be as soon as two-weeks from offer

Duration is six months, to start

This is a high-visibility role, lots of meetings with: Business suite, shareholders, IT management, and managing an IT team.

Will need to PM/Architect the roadmap, liaison, etc.

They want to migrate to AWS cloud

This is for a single PM AWS advisor, who will have access to our customers bench of AWS folks.

Initially for 30-35-40 hours a week.

Interviews are all via MS Teams

My notes: client is a retail company, with 8K plus employees.

25 TB of data

15 Sharepoint portals

Customer wants to go from legacy (Delphi), along with newer integrations to AWS cloud.

So, its: on-prem plus Azure to AWS

The JD

Ideal Candidate Profile

• Experience with analytics and reporting system in Azure / AWS

• Can manage project in Agile methodology

• The usual Sr PM skills (excellent soft skills, strong team leadership, comfortable and effective reporting upwards, drives for solutions and delivery).

Responsibilities

• • Be the subject matter expert (SME) of multiple agile software development lines and the associated platform.

• • Help application product teams bring their latest ideas to the field faster and provide the fault tolerant and highly scalable core of our customers platform as a service for internal users

• • Review project plans to plan and coordinate project activity.

• • Consult with users, management, vendors, and technicians to assess computing needs and system requirements.

• • Meet with department heads, managers, supervisors, vendors, and others, to solicit cooperation and resolve problems.

• Required Skills/Experience:

• • 12+ years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree or its equivalent.

• • 10+ year of experience in software management, engineering, or design

• • Well versed in building product-quality software on AWS including experience in designing for high availability, building multi-region and multi-set architectures using virtual networks, availability sets and affinity groups.

• • Familiar with various application stacks such as .NET, C#, Powershell etc in a Visual Studio TFS/VSO environment.

• • Configuration and deployment experience in two or more of the following:

• AWS PaaS technologies (Elastic Beanstalk, Lambda, and API Gateway)

• AWS apps technologies

• Azure IaaS Technologies

• Deployed applications with Web UI frontends

• Deployed application with RESTful/SOAP services interfaces

• • Expert level knowledge regarding AWS IaaS services (i.e., Compute, networking, databases, storage, backup and archive, DR, security, monitoring, etc.)

• • Strong expertise in AWS Security & Identity services (i.e. Active Directory, Domain Services, Security Center, Governance,)

• • Firm grasp on cloud security, leveraging Windows operating systems, Active Directory, Federated AD, AD integration

• • Powershell deployments, experience with Powershell, DevOps CI/CD Pipelines

• • Familiarity with Office 365 and Sharepoint service offerings.

• • Experience as a hands-on technical practitioner/specialist in client facing roles in large enterprises and demonstrated client facing consulting skills, including building strong client relationships.

• • Excellent verbal, presentation and written communications skills.

• • Strong team building and management skills including: the ability to lead distributed teams and play the liaison.

• • AWS certification in any of the following:

• Solutions Architect

• Infrastructure Architect

• Systems Ops.