Cloud Engineer

Overview

Synoptek

We think globally, act locally. As a Managed Services Provider, Synoptek provides world-class strategic IT leadership and hyper-efficient IT operational support, enabling our global client-base to grow and transform their businesses. We are excited to have experienced continuous growth and in keeping with that momentum we are seeking to add talent to our team. When you partner with Synoptek, you engage with an ever-growing, ever-evolving IT organization that provides a high-caliber team, results growth, and clarity.

Responsibilities

Cloud Engineer

This is an amazing opportunity to work within one of the fastest growing Managed Services Providers. We are a company with a heart and soul dedicated to the ongoing success and growth of our employees and continued business success of the customers we support. We foster a fun and connected environment with employee benefits extending beyond general compensation and into company sponsored events and an invested culture of learning.

The Cloud Engineer is responsible for Migrations. These responsibilities include working directly with our customers to guide them through the details of Cloud transformation and migration of critical business workloads, accelerating the customers cloud migration journey.

Duties And Responsibilities

• Work alongside our account executives and solution architects to help customers accelerate their cloud migration journey and modernize their business applications on AWS
• Work with our strategic customers, you will help the customer assess their readiness for Cloud adoption and advise and guide the customer in developing a strategic plan to transform IT processes and organization to support their Cloud adoption
• Focus on understanding customer business drivers as well as the compelling event/s driving their cloud adoption at the onset of a large migration engagement
• Work with the AWS team and customer to help develop a comprehensive migration plan, lowering risk and cost while accelerating adoption
• Gain hands-on technical credibility with internal as well as customer technical leaders
• Create documentation on migration best practices.
• This job description is not designed to be a comprehensive list of the duties and responsibilities required of the employee in this position, as duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
  
  
  

Qualifications

Education

• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science from an accredited college or university, preferred
• In lieu of undergraduate degree, the ratio is 1:1 - meaning one year of college equals one year of work experience and vice versa
  
  
  

Experience

• Customarily has at least 7 years of experience in a Solutions Architect, Enterprise Architect, or Lead Architect role leading the discovery, design, and construction of large-scale Enterprise Migration solutions
• Customarily has at least 7 years of experience in systems engineering, implementation, or consulting experience in lieu of a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent military experience
• Customarily has at least 2 years of experience planning and executing large scale IT and business transformations to the cloud
• Customarily has at least 2 years of experience architecting, designing, migrating workloads to the public cloud
• Demonstrated experience in a range of migration discovery, profiling, migration automation, and operations technologies and tools
  
  
  

Skills/Attributes

• Synoptek core DNA behaviors:
• Clarity: Possesses excellent communication skills, makes a concentrated effort to speak the customers language. Ability to field questions with concise, well-constructed responses
• OwnIT: Shows integrity, innovation, and accountability in completing daily assignments
• Results: Solutions focused and driven to resolve conflict quickly and precisely. Proactively looks for opportunities to contribute to the company’s business goals
• Growth: Willing to learn and ask questions. Constantly looking for new ways to improve yourself. Ability to adapt and grow in a fast-paced environment
• Team: Embraces both customers and colleagues as team members. Ability to be flexible, respectful, engaged and collaborative
• Ability to creating, articulate, and position an innovative and compelling value proposition so that customer executives clearly realize the benefits and transformation value of migrating to AWS
• Ability to define and execute technical migration strategies by working with highly technical teams
• Ability to work with large scale network, compute, and storage architectures to help remove roadblocks in customer migration projects
• Ability to engage with development, infrastructure, security, and IT operations teams at the customer and identifying repeatable patterns and architectures for cloud migration
• Ability to drive the co-development of new go-to-market approaches and opportunities.
• Ability to identify platform improvements, influencing future iterations of the AWS platform and the
  
  

Working Conditions

We live by the motto ‘work hard, play hard’ and strive to support our employees in both their professional and personal goals. We believe that by hiring the right people, leading process improvement, and leveraging technology, we achieve superior results. Work is performed primarily in an office or remote environment. May be subject to time constraints and tight deadlines. May require occasional travel.

EEO Statement

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. It is our intention that all qualified applicants are given equal opportunity and that employment decisions be based on job-related factors.