The Role
The Cloud Practice Engineer III will design, develop, and implement cloud solutions. They will collaborate with teams, migrate applications to microservices, and optimize cloud services.
Summary Generated by Built In
We are expanding our team of motivated technologists with a proven track record of delivering results in technology consulting. Specifically looking for a Cloud Practice Engineer III for the US. This role is 100% remote. Cloud Practice Engineer will design, develop and implement cloud-based solutions. Collaborates with product managers and engineers to develop specifications for new cloud based products/services, applications and solutions. Drives the rollout of cloud management platforms, evaluates its performance and implements enhancements.
Develops and enriches the product portfolio of cloud services and value-added services. Responsible for
adhering to company security policies and procedures and any other relevant policies and standards as
Being an experienced technologist with technical depth and breadth, aided with strong interpersonal skills, you will work directly with customers as part of a delivery team helping to enable innovation through continuous delivery across technology stacks and creating robust solution designs that align to business goals. In addition, you will work with mid-tier technologies that include application integration, in-memory caches, security, and much more!
Work Location: Remote
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide strategical and 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
- 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
- Attend and present valuable information at Industry Events
Qualifications:
- Work alongside customer business, development, and infrastructure teams.
- Must have hands-on with AWS (other hyperscalers is nice to have)
- Leverage new technology paradigms (e.g., serverless, containers, microservices).
- Migrate monolithic applications to microservices architectures.
- Advise on implementing AWS best practices.
- Influence infrastructure architecture by sharing your application development expertise.
- Occasional travel to client locations to deliver professional services.
- 3- 5 years years design & implementation experience with distributed applications
- 3-5 years years of experience in networking, infrastructure, or database architectures
- In depth understanding and professional experience with AWS services and infrastructure
- Demonstrated knowledge of software development tools and methodologies
- 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
- Discover your inner Racker: Racker Life
Skills and Technical Requirements
Preferred
- Cloud Certifications
- Demonstrated success as a software developer, infrastructure architect, or consultant working with various platforms.
- Experience working directly with customers, partners or third-party developers.
Sponsorship
- This role is not sponsorship eligible
- Candidates need to be legally allowed to work in the US for any employer.
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About Rackspace Technology
We 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 Technology
Though we’re all different, Rackers thrive through our connection to a central goal: to be a valued member of a winning team on an inspiring mission. We bring our whole selves to work every day. And we embrace the notion that unique perspectives fuel innovation and enable us to best serve our customers and communities around the globe. We welcome you to apply today and want you to know that we are committed to offering equal employment opportunity without regard to age, color, disability, gender reassignment or identity or expression, genetic information, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity status, military or veteran status, nationality, ethnic or national origin, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or any legally protected characteristic. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.
Top Skills
AWS
Containers
Microservices
Serverless
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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.
