The Senior Technical Consultant leads the development of technical solutions, mentors engineers, presents to clients, and contributes to platforms engineering and cloud transformation initiatives.
AHEAD builds platforms for digital business. By weaving together advances in cloud infrastructure, automation and analytics, and software delivery, we help enterprises deliver on the promise of digital transformation.
At AHEAD, we prioritize creating a culture of belonging, where all perspectives and voices are represented, valued, respected, and heard. We create spaces to empower everyone to speak up, make change, and drive the culture at AHEAD.
We are an equal opportunity employer, and do not discriminate based on an individual's race, national origin, color, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, marital status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law, whether actual or perceived.
We embrace all candidates that will contribute to the diversification and enrichment of ideas and perspectives at AHEAD.
Senior Technical Consultant, Platform Engineering
Serving as a technical thought leader and SME for our ecosystem of partners, customers, and service providers in the realm of Modern Apps & Platform Engineering, the Senior Technical Consultant works as part of the consulting team to lead the development, design, implementation and engagement leader of client solutions. Senior Technical Consultants mentor and provide direction to engineers on a project by project basis and within the broader organization as it relates to internal initiatives and indirect project support.
Responsibilities
- Designs and Implements complex, mission-critical transformational enterprise grade technical solutions for clients.
- Develops high quality deliverables and presentations for Client engineering teams and senior leaders.
- Creates and presents solution designs, options, ideas, and innovations to clients’ senior leadership teams.
- Develops and Maintains Technical Roadmaps and Innovation Plans.
- Develops and Implements CI\CD solutions.
- Establishes project estimates and plans, identifies risks and mitigations, oversees development and delivery of technical solutions.
- Mentor and support project teammates.
- Actively lead collaboration within our technical communities.
Qualifications
- Experience and Ability to “jump on a whiteboard” in front of a customer to develop a solution to a business / technology goal or challenge.
- Knowledge of modern cloud-native application design principles, DevSecOps, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD Pipelines, Microservices, Containers, etc.
- Hands-on experience in programming with Python (preferred) or any other language.
- Excellent written & verbal communication and interpersonal skills.
- 6+ years of IT experience and 3+ years of Cloud, DevOps, Automation, Application Modernization, Digital Transformation experience.
- Hands-on experience designing and implementing Platform core services around Compute, Storage, Networking, Databases, Containers, Security, Identity, etc.
- Multiple certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect Pro, AWS DevOps Engineer Pro, Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Azure DevOps Engineer Expert, Terraform Associate, Etc.
- Familiarity and experience with organizational adoption of transformational initiatives – Platform Engineering, DevOps, DevSecOps, Cloud Transformation, Application Modernization
- Hands-on experience with IaC tools such as Terraform, Ansible, ARM, CloudFormation
- Experience with using and managing deployment services such as Harness, GitHub, Ansible, Jenkins, etc. Knowledge and usage of branching strategies is required.
- Familiar with Windows Server and Linux virtualized Operating Systems environments.
Why AHEAD:
Through our daily work and internal groups like Moving Women AHEAD and RISE AHEAD, we value and benefit from diversity of people, ideas, experience, and everything in between.
We fuel growth by stacking our office with top-notch technologies in a multi-million-dollar lab, by encouraging cross department training and development, sponsoring certifications and credentials for continued learning.
USA Employment Benefits include:
- Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
- 401(k)
- Paid company holidays
- Paid time off
- Paid parental and caregiver leave
- Plus more! See benefits https://www.aheadbenefits.com/ for additional details.
The compensation range indicated in this posting reflects the On-Target Earnings (“OTE”) for this role, which includes a base salary and any applicable target bonus amount. This OTE range may vary based on the candidate’s relevant experience, qualifications, and geographic location.
Top Skills
Ansible
Arm
Ci/Cd
CloudFormation
Git
Infrastructure As Code
Jenkins
Python
Terraform
AHEAD Chicago, Illinois, USA Office
401 N Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL, United States, 60611
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