Azure/ AWS Cloud Engineer
Rackspace, Mexico

Candidates are required to have proficiency in both Azure and AWS cloud

Being an experienced technologist with technical depth and breadth, aided with strong interpersonal skills, you will work directly with customers as part of a professional services delivery team helping to enable innovation through continuous delivery across technology stacks and creating robust solution designs that align to business goals. Your insight and experience will help our delivery teams build Engineering and provide prescriptive guidance across network, storage, operating systems, virtualization, RDBMS amp; NoSQL databases, security, and automation. In addition, you will work with mid-tier technologies that include application integration, in-memory caches, security, and much more!The qualified AWS Cloud Engineer will have demonstrated the ability to think strategically about businesses, create technical definitions around customer objectives in complex situations, develop solution strategies, motivate amp; mobilize resources, and deliver results. The ability to connect technology with measurable business value is a critical component to be successful in this role. We seek team members who are self-motivated, driven, collaborative, passionate about AWS Cloud and want to have a direct positive impact on our customer's business. Strong communication skills and emotional intelligence are also needed to help develop a team reporting to you.
Job DutiesBe the technical liaison between customers and engineering resources.Provide tactical scope and work directly with the business representatives/customers to understand the requirements driving the need for a solution to be developedCommunicate effectively with both business and technical colleagues throughout the course of the projectEnsure that all the appropriate questions are asked and verify that nothing crucial to the success of the project is overlookedBe an AWS Cloud evangelist by educating a variety of customers on the value of AWSHelp customers transition to the cloud in a high-value migration approach that leverages best of breed designs and practices delivered in an agile modelWork with customers to enable a DevOps culture and modernize operations and release strategiesEstablish credibility and build impactful relationships with our customers to enable them to be cloud advocatesParticipate in deep Engineering discussions to build confidence and ensure customer success when building new, or migrating existing, applications, software, and services on the AWS Cloud Platform.Conduct deep-dive hands-on education/training sessions to transfer knowledge to customers interested in AWS and to ensure our SAs are up to dateTraveling up to 25% of the time (for occasional project kickoff and close events)

Requirements:Fluent, Bi-lingual (Spanish and English)2-3 years design amp; implementation experience with distributed applications2-3 years of experience in networking, infrastructure, or database EngineeringStrong, in depth understanding and professional experience with AWS Cloudservices and infrastructure.One or more AWS professional certifications preferred."Hands on" experience with tooling and services related to cloud Automation, IaC, and DevOps:Terraform, Git (one or more: GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket), CICD pipelines (one or more: GitHub actions, GitLab CICD, Bitbucket pipelines, Jenkins, ArgoCD, AWS DevOps), K8S/Kubernetes, Docker, Ansible, AWS CLI/CloudFormation Templates"Hands on" experience with tooling and services related to Large Cloud Migrations:AWS Migrate, AWS DB Migrate, AWS Site Recovery"Hands on" experience with tooling and services related to Database deployments and admin:Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQLDemonstrated knowledge of software development tools and methodologiesSource code management: GitArtifacts management (one or more): Artifactory, Nexus, S3, Blob storage, etcCICD (one or more): GitHub actions, GitLab CICD, Bitbucket pipelines, Jenkins, ArgoCD, AWS DevOpsDemonstrated knowledge of a software development language and/or scripting (one or more):Scripting languages: pythonOS Shell languages:Linux: Bash, Zsh, ANSIWindows: PowerShellPrimary languages: Javascript/Typescript, nodejs, C#, Golang, C, etc#LI-NS14#LI-Remote#Rackspace#LI-Rackspace

About Rackspace TechnologyWe are the multicloud solutions experts. We combine our expertise with the world’s leading technologies across applications, data and security to deliver end-to-end solutions. We have a proven record of advising customers based on their business challenges, designing solutions that scale, building and managing those solutions, and optimizing returns into the future. Named a best place to work, year after year according to Fortune, Forbes and Glassdoor, we attract and develop world-class talent. Join us on our mission to embrace technology, empower customers and deliver the future.More on Rackspace Technolog