Key Responsibilities

As a consultant you are a professional in both technical skill and attitude, therefore you have a responsibility to:

• Keep up to date with tech developments.
• Provide thought leadership both to customers and Ensono.
• Organize your time and priorities to ensure you complete your designated tasks by the allotted time.
• Communicate thoroughly with project managers and stakeholders as appropriate.

Knowledge

The following design, deploy, and troubleshooting knowledge is a minimum requirement to be successful and you should already have or be prepared to learn the following:

• AWS Account governance including management groups, IAM roles, and policies
• AWS Security and auditing, including perimeter security
• Designing and building mission-critical solutions on AWS
• Implementing AWS foundation services (networking, VPCs, VPC Peering, Gateways, compute, storage, databases, etc.)
• Knowledge for both Windows and Linux
• Familiarity with automation and configuration management tools (e.g. CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible, and Puppet)

Skills

As a minimum all consultants are expected to have/be or achieve the following:

• Hold a number of current AWS certifications (ideally including one Professional certification)
• Self-motivated and enthusiastic
• Highly organized
• Excellent written and oral communication
• Respectful of others and high degree of integrity
• Excellent presentation skills / whiteboarding skills
• Leadership skills (Consultants are the leaders in the room for the customer)
• Able to articulate a solution effectively
• Discuss in-depth technical requirements and solutions
• Produce written designs, with clearly defined design decisions
• Empathy with the customer
• Although infrequent, the ability to travel as needed is required

Desirable Skills/Knowledge

• Implementing solutions using serverless components and containers (Lambda, EKS/ECS, AWS Fargate)
• Experience using Git for version control
• Experience of Continuous Integration/CD pipelines and technology

Experience

As this is a build as well as architecture role it is essential that you have hands on experience with the following:

• Conducting design workshops with customers to gain the information necessary to architect the solution at both high and low level
• Documenting architecture designs
• Building and troubleshooting the solution
• Transitioning into support

Technical experience of the following is also essential:

• Design/build AWS networking
• Design/build AWS security
• Design/migrate troubleshoot IaaS workloads
• Design/build high availability and resiliency for DR