Senior Consultant in AWS
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Role Overview
We are seeking a Senior Consultant in AWS to act as a primary technical authority and trusted executive advisor for our global clients. This is not a purely internal engineering role—we need an industry standout who seamlessly combines deep hands-on technical mastery with top-tier management consulting skills.
In this role, you will lead complex architecture engagements, solve high-stakes business problems with structured critical thinking, and facilitate dynamic client-facing workshops with C-level stakeholders.
Working Schedule: Tuesday to Saturday, 3:00 PM - 12:00 AM (Eastern European Time)
Key Responsibilities
1. Senior Consulting & Executive Stakeholder Management
- Trusted Technical Advisor: Serve as the strategic technical voice, engaging directly with executive leadership, VP-level engineering leaders, and enterprise architects.
- Workshop Facilitation: Lead discovery sessions, technical workshops, and architectural reviews to translate complex business challenges into resilient AWS solutions.
- Executive Communication: Articulate high-level architectural concepts effortlessly to non-technical business leaders while diving deep into low-level engineering details with hands-on developers.
2. Architecture & Critical Engineering
- Enterprise Design: Architect and implement scalable, highly available, secure, and cost-optimized AWS solutions utilizing the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Drive enterprise-grade IaC adoption using advanced Terraform module patterns and deployment strategies.
- Container Orchestration: Architect, secure, and maintain production-grade Kubernetes (EKS) clusters for complex microservice deployments.
- High-Impact Artifacts: Produce polished, enterprise-ready technical documentation including High-Level Designs (HLDs), Low-Level Designs (LLDs), architecture diagrams, and Statements of Work (SOWs).
Requirements & Qualifications
Language & Consulting Skills
- Near-Native English Fluency: Exceptional verbal and written English skills are strictly required. You must be fully comfortable presenting to C-suite executives and facilitating high-stakes negotiations in English.
- Elite Critical Thinking: Demonstrated ability to unpack ambiguous, multi-layered customer problems, weigh business trade-offs, and recommend structured, high-value technical solutions.
- Senior Consulting Track Record: 5+ years of direct client-facing technology consulting experience within a global cloud vendor, systems integrator, or top-tier consulting firm.
Technical & Professional Experience
- Cloud Experience: 8+ years in Cloud Architecture and Infrastructure Engineering, with at least 5+ years focused specifically on complex AWS ecosystems.
- Production Kubernetes Expertise: Hands-on experience designing, deploying, and managing enterprise Kubernetes (EKS) clusters.
- Terraform Mastery: Advanced expertise creating modular, DRY, and secure Terraform configurations for multi-account landing zones.
- Core Infrastructure: Solid grounding in networking (VPC, Transit Gateway, DirectConnect), cloud security/IAM, CI/CD pipelines, and FinOps practices.
- Education: B.Sc. in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience preferred.
Certifications
- Mandatory: AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional OR AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional.
- Nice to Have / A Plus: Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) OR Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD).
- Nice to Have / A Plus: HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate.
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