Job Description

Project Overview:

A global professional services company providing organizations with tools for cloud enablement and transformation. Through a unique combination of expertise and agility, the company accelerates cloud innovation and helps organizations fully unlock the value received from cloud technology.

As an AWS Premier Consulting Partner and a Salesforce Platinum Partner, the company helps clients connect their front office and back office by building a new operating model that allows them to harness the benefits of both Salesforce and AWS. The company is supported by a robust ecosystem of technology partners, proven methodologies, and well-documented best practices. Thereby, elevating customers by achieving operational excellence on the cloud, within a secure environment, at every milestone of the journey to becoming cloud-first.

With over 12 years of experience and a portfolio with thousands of successful cloud deployments, the company serves clients across the globe. The company has offices in Israel, Europe, and North America.

Looking for an experienced and highly motivated technologist who possesses technical depth and strong interpersonal skills to join our team of cloud experts and lead our customers’ cloud journey.

The ideal candidate is passionate to develop deep expertise in AWS technologies as well as broad know-how about how applications and services are constructed using the AWS platform. She/he will possess customer-facing skills that will allow them to represent Client well within a customer's environment and drive discussions with senior personnel within the company, as well as a technical background that enables them to easily interact and give guidance with software developers and architects.

She/he should also have a demonstrated ability to think structured about business, product, and technical challenges. As an AWS solution architect, you will enjoy keeping your existing technical skills honed and developing new ones, so you can make strong contributions to deep architecture discussions.

Responsibilities:
• Lead technical workshops and advise customers on architectural and strategic IT decisions;
• Design modern cloud solutions, leveraging the AWS platform and cloud-native technologies;
• Plan and lead cloud migrations both from a business and a technical point of view to assist enterprises in their cloud adoption strategy;
• Educate and advise customers on best practices and new technologies;
• Own the discovery, architecture, design, work plan, and quality of technical solutions and support delivery teams in the implementation phase;
• Be a part of a cloud architecture experts group worldwide, dive deep into technologies, share your knowledge and develop your skills;
• Collaborate effectively with DevOps Engineering, Customer Success, Sales, and Delivery groups.
Requirements:
• Significant experience in one or more of the following: DevOps Engineering, Cloud Architecture, Infrastructure Architecture, System Architecture, Data Engineering, Security, or Operations;
• Ability to effectively present and communicate ideas to C-level executives, R&D, and DevOps Managers, as well as hands-on Engineers;
• Experience working in a customer-facing role;
• Life-long learner, striving for excellence;
• Strong communication skills both verbal and written;
• Fluency in German and English is essential;
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate;
• B.Sc in Computer Science, Software Engineering, and/or equivalent professional experience.
Nice to have:
• Background in designing enterprise-scale distributed applications, using modern technologies;
• Experience in the following domains: AWS cloud and its services, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, operations (centralized monitoring, logging, and tracing systems), Containerized environments, and Serverless applications;
• Experience working within the SaaS, Mobile, or Internet-scale industries is highly desired;
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional.
Higher Education:
• Bachelor's Degree.

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Required Knowledge

• K0001   Knowledge of computer networking concepts and protocols, and network security methodologies.
• K0004   Knowledge of cybersecurity and privacy principles.
• K0027   Knowledge of organization's enterprise information security architecture.
• K0199   Knowledge of security architecture concepts and enterprise architecture reference models (e.g., Zachman, Federal Enterprise Architecture [FEA]).
• K0010   Knowledge of communication methods, principles, and concepts that support the network infrastructure.
• K0056   Knowledge of network access, identity, and access management (e.g., public key infrastructure, Oauth, OpenID, SAML, SPML).
• K0100   Knowledge of the enterprise information technology (IT) architecture.
• K0105   Knowledge of web services (e.g., service-oriented architecture, Simple Object Access Protocol, and web service description language).
• K0061   Knowledge of how traffic flows across the network (e.g., Transmission Control Protocol [TCP] and Internet Protocol [IP], Open System Interconnection Model [OSI], Information Technology Infrastructure Library, current version [ITIL]).
• K0291   Knowledge of the enterprise information technology (IT) architectural concepts and patterns (e.g., baseline, validated design, and target architectures.)
• K0293   Knowledge of integrating the organization’s goals and objectives into the architecture.
• K0565   Knowledge of the common networking and routing protocols (e.g. TCP/IP), services (e.g., web, mail, DNS), and how they interact to provide network communications.
• K0269   Knowledge of mobile communications architecture.
• K0047   Knowledge of information technology (IT) architectural concepts and frameworks.

Required Skills

• S0367   Skill to apply cybersecurity and privacy principles to organizational requirements (relevant to confidentiality, integrity, availability, authentication, non-repudiation).
• S0038   Skill in identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system.
• S0073   Skill in using virtual machines. (e.g., Microsoft Hyper-V, VMWare vSphere, Citrix XenDesktop/Server, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, etc.).
• S0111   Skill in interfacing with customers.
• S0136   Skill in network systems management principles, models, methods (e.g., end-to-end systems performance monitoring), and tools.

Required Abilities

• A0027  Ability to apply an organization's goals and objectives to develop and maintain architecture.
• A0038  Ability to optimize systems to meet enterprise performance requirements.
• A0048  Ability to apply network security architecture concepts including topology, protocols, components, and principles (e.g., application of defense-in-depth).
• A0049  Ability to apply secure system design tools, methods and techniques.
• A0061  Ability to design architectures and frameworks.