Lead AWS Solutions Architect / Trainer - Remote

Enhance IT is a technology consulting and solutions firm with a focus on cutting-edge technologies such as mobile app development, cyber security, Microsoft Exchange and AWS/Virtualization. Headquartered in Metro Atlanta, Georgia (US), we provide talent solutions to our nationwide clientele. Our organization is a 10-year old, privately owned firm currently in a growth mode. The leadership team has implemented an aggressive 5-year plan to broaden our footprint in our various technology disciplines. In short, it’s a great time to join our team. If you have passion for AWS and are looking to leverage your experience and knowledge in a new direction, our Lead AWS Solutions Architect mentor and training position could be for you. The Lead AWS Solutions Architect/Trainer (AWS SME) will be a cornerstone for IT’s new AWS initiatives.

This position is onsite at our Atlanta GA headquarters. Enhance IT will sponsor your TN Visa for Mexican and Canadian citizens, provide transportation to Atlanta, and provide limited housing for the interim.

Who would be interested in this role?

You are weary of the consultative, road-warrior lifestyle, and/or if you have a passion to leverage your knowledge and experience as a mentor, here you go. In this position you will take an active role -- in partnership with a consultant development manager – in the ongoing training and development of the consultative careers for a diverse body of IT consultants within our company. Key responsibilities include creation of training material and classes, marketing and managing resources in the field. Not only will you assist and guide onboarding consultants with their AWS programming and architecture training, but you will also play an integral part in preparing and delivering these qualified resources to our clientele.

What you can expect from this position:

•  Participate with screening potential candidates for AWS consultative positions
•  Responsible for the design, development and maintenance of our best-in-class AWS training; design training material and syllabuses, create and conduct in-house classes, guiding and mentoring the progress of future consultants’ technical skills to junior, mid-level and senior competency levels
•  Develop Consultants’ interview skills by preparing mock interview sessions and role playing before client interviews
•  Provide primary technical support for consultants in the field (remote support)
•  Interact with the Executive and Sales team to ensure projects and employees are appropriately matched
•  Update Executive and Sales team on the continued production and successes of consultants in the field

Desired Qualifications Include:

•  5+ Years of professional AWS Development and Architecture experience
•  AWS experience in an enterprise, distributed environment
•  AWS Certified AWS Developer with strong Architecture experience
•  Training, mentoring and managing a team of IT professionals
•  Ideally AWS Certified Solutions Architect
•  Project Management/Project Lead experience
•  Knowledge of Consulting Services and Consulting Sales structure
•  In-depth knowledge of at least one high-level programming language
•  Understand core AWS services, uses, and basic AWS architecture and best practice
•  Bachelor’s Degree in the Computer Science or related field

Desired Skills (Including but Not Limited to):

• Candidate should have experience with Data Migration, Analytics and web applications from on-prem to AWS
• Experience with AWS Cloud Formation Templates
• Experience with AWS EMR & Redshift
• Experience with Hadoop eco system in Cloud (Spark, Hive and HBase etc.)
• Experience with AWS Lambda, Glue, Athena and Stepfunctions
• Experience with Apache NiFi
• Knowledge of AWS Quicksights is a plus
• Knowledge with Cloud container (EKS) services (Kubemetes) is a plus
• Proficiency in developing, deploying, and debugging cloud-based applications using AWS
• Ability to use the AWS service APIs, AWS CLI, and SDKs to write applications
• Basic understanding of cloud-native applications to write code
• Ability to author, maintain, and debug code modules on AWS
• Proficiency writing code for serverless applications
• Cloud infrastructure configuration and optimization
• Network management and security for cloud environments (e.g. AWS)
• Automated deployments and source code/configuration management tools
• Re-architecture and design of systems to become cloud native (e.g. AWS Lambda)
• Relational Database administration using SQL and configuration knowledge for the MySQL engine.
• Dev Environment Mgmt - Agile, Scrum, Sprints

In this role you will encounter the following technologies:

Our Operating Systems/Virtualization Environment - Windows Server 2016 R2 - 2019, CentOS, Redhat Linux, Windows 10, VMWare ESX 6, ESXi Hypervisor, Hyper-v, VMware Horizon Suite, Office 365, Docker, Kubernetes, Apple IOS, Confluence, VWorkspace, VMware Horizon View, Xenapp, VEEAM, Azure Fundamentals, RemoteApps, RDS, EC2, S3, Cloudwatch, Chime, Lambda Functions, SNS, SQS, Cognito, Auto scaling,

Our Project /IT Management – Microsoft Project, Leadership Training Concepts, Waterfall Model, Lean Six Sigma, IT Budgeting, Change Management, Risk Assessments, SOX IT Compliance Management, JIRA, Confluence

Our Cyber Security – CyberArk, Sophos, Bitdefender, Threat Analysis, AppviewX, McAfee Viruscan Enterprise, Certificate Servers, PGP, EAP, PPTP, L2TP, IPsec, Digital Signatures, PKI, MPPE, Cylance, Bluecoat, CA E-Trust, Proventia ISS, RADIUS, EAP, MD5, SSH, Sha1, Securewave Endpoint Security, ACL’s, STS, Federation, Shavlik HfNetChk, Barracuda Spam Appliance, Third Brigade, MacAfee Epolicy Administrator, Hercules, Wireshark, DISA STIG, IAM

Our Networking/Administration - Active Directory, Vblock, DataDog, Citrix Netscaler, VPN, LAN, WAN, DNS, DHCP, RAS, RRAS, OSPF, EIGRP, Thin Client Setup, Visio 2016, OPNet. VmWare VSphere, SUS, Rundeck, Bladelogic, MFA, Security Groups, DynamoDB, RDS, SharePoint Portal Server, VPC, DirectX