The Role
As an AWS Solution Architect, you will design and implement solutions on AWS, serve as a liaison between customers and technical teams, and promote cloud adoption and DevOps culture.
Summary Generated by Built In
Being an experienced technologist with technical depth and breadth, aided by 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 with business goals. Your insight and experience will help our delivery teams build architectures and provide prescriptive guidance across network, storage, operating systems, virtualization, RDBMS & 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 Solution Architect will have demonstrated the ability to think strategically about businesses, create technical definitions around customer objectives in complex situations, develop solution strategies, motivate & 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 customers' business. Strong communication skills and emotional intelligence are also needed.
Please submit your resume in English to be considered for this role. Interviews will be held in English and Spanish.
Work Location: Mexico
- Hybrid for candidates who live within 40 KM of our office in Miguel Hidalgo, Ciudad de Mexico
- Remote for candidates who live in the following locations only: Estado de Mexico, Jalisco, Nuevo Leon, Aguascalientes, Querétaro, and Puebla.
Job Duties
- As the AWS Cloud Architect, you will be technically focused, but also understand and implement business planning
- Be 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 developed
- Communicate effectively with both business and technical colleagues throughout the course of the project
- Ensure that all the appropriate questions are asked and verify that nothing crucial to the success of the project is overlooked
- Be an AWS Cloud evangelist by educating a variety of customers on the value of AWS
- Help customers transition to the cloud in a high-value migration approach that leverages best-of-breed designs and practices delivered in an agile model
- Work with customers to enable a DevOps culture and modernize operations and release strategies
- Establish credibility and build impactful relationships with our customers to enable them to be cloud advocates
- Participate in deep architectural 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 date
- Traveling up to 20% of the time for candidates outside of Mexico City
Requirements
- Fluent, bilingual (Spanish and English)
- 2-3 years of design & implementation experience with distributed applications
- 2-3 years of experience in networking, infrastructure, or database architectures
- Strong, in-depth understanding and professional experience with AWS Cloud services and infrastructure
- "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, Azure DevOps), K8S/Kubernetes, Docker, Ansible, AWS CLI, CloudFormation
- "Hands-on" experience with tooling and services related to Large Cloud Migrations: AWS MGN, AWS DMS/SCT, AWS DRS
- "Hands-on" experience with tooling and services related to Database deployments and admin: Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL
- Demonstrated knowledge of software development tools and methodologies
- o Source code management: Git
- o Artifacts management (one or more): Artifactory, Nexus, S3, Blob storage, etc
- o CICD (one or more: GitHub actions, GitLab CICD, Bitbucket pipelines, Jenkins, ArgoCD, Azure DevOps)
- Strong Presentation skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with executives, IT management, and developers.
- Excellent communication skills with an ability to right level conversations
- Demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly
Preferred Qualifications
- 3-5+ years of experience in customer-facing software/technology or consulting
- 3-3+ years of experience with “on-premises to cloud” migrations or IT transformations
- 3+ years of experience architecting/operating solutions built on AWS (ideally) or AWS/Azure
- AWS Professional or Associate Cloud Architect certification and/or other AWS Cloud certifications
- Technical degree; Computer Science or related
Please submit your resume in English to be considered for this role. Interviews will be held in English and Spanish.
Work Location: Mexico
- Hybrid for candidates who live within 40 KM of our office in Miguel Hidalgo, Ciudad de Mexico
- Remote for candidates who live in the following locations only: Estado de Mexico, Jalisco, Nuevo Leon, Aguascalientes, Querétaro, and Puebla.
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Top Skills
Ansible
Argocd
Aws Cli
Aws Cloud
Aws Dms
Aws Mgn
Azure Devops
Bitbucket Pipelines
CloudFormation
Docker
Git
Github Actions
Gitlab Cicd
Jenkins
Kubernetes
Postgres
SQL Server
Terraform
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The Company
What We Do
At Rackspace Technology, we accelerate the value of the cloud during every phase of digital transformation. By managing apps, data, security and multiple clouds, we are the best choice to help customers get to the cloud, innovate with new technologies and maximize their IT investments. As a recognized Gartner Magic Quadrant leader, we are uniquely positioned to close the gap between the complex reality of today and the promise of tomorrow. Passionate about customer success, we provide unbiased expertise, based on proven results, across all the leading technologies. And across every interaction worldwide, we deliver Fanatical Experience TM — the best customer service experience in the industry. Rackspace has been honored by Fortune, Forbes, Glassdoor and others as one of the best places to work.
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