AWS Platform Architect - Senior Associate

About this role

Line of Service
Advisory

Industry/Sector
Not Applicable

Specialism
Product Innovation

Management Level
Senior Associate

Job Description & Summary
A career in our Advisory Acceleration Centre is the natural extension of PwC’s leading class global delivery capabilities. We provide premium, cost effective, high quality services that support process quality and delivery capability in support for client engagements.


To really stand out and make us fit for the future in a constantly changing world, each and every one of us at PwC needs to be a purpose-led and values-driven leader at every level. To help us achieve this we have the PwC Professional; our global leadership development framework. It gives us a single set of expectations across our lines, geographies and career paths, and provides transparency on the skills we need as individuals to be successful and progress in our careers, now and in the future.

As a Senior Associate, you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. PwC Professional skills and responsibilities for this management level include but are not limited to:

• Use feedback and reflection to develop self awareness, personal strengths and address development areas.
  
• Delegate to others to provide stretch opportunities, coaching them to deliver results.
  
• Demonstrate critical thinking and the ability to bring order to unstructured problems.
  
• Use a broad range of tools and techniques to extract insights from current industry or sector trends.
  
• Review your work and that of others for quality, accuracy and relevance.
  
• Know how and when to use tools available for a given situation and can explain the reasons for this choice.
  
• Seek and embrace opportunities which give exposure to different situations, environments and perspectives.
  
• Use straightforward communication, in a structured way, when influencing and connecting with others.
  
• Able to read situations and modify behavior to build quality relationships.
  
• Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.
  
  
  
  

• Guide customers to ensure success in building and migrating applications, software and services following the principles of the AWS Well-Architected Framework
  
• Participate in deep architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud.
  
• Develop infrastructure, database and networking architecture for highly available, Internet-scale applications
  
• Define rehost, re-platform  and re-architect migration strategies
  
• Should be able to develop overall strategy for Build & Release management
  
• Develop architecture of highly scalable, secure, efficient, and resilient systems
  
• Analyze Requirements and proactively estimate and project the requirements for infrastructure, security and DevOps initiatives
  
• Mentor, guide, support and inspire the team of talented Cloud/DevOps engineers from both technical and human-perspectives 
  
• Develop PoCs, design & deployment of new cloud-based services for product environments
  
• Experience with modern deployment mechanisms like Canary and Blue-Green
  
• Familiarity with working on an Agile/Iterative development framework
  
• Detail-Oriented and passionate about DevOps, Automation, Data-Driven decisions
  
  

• Minimum 7+ years relevant experience in AWS/DevOps is must
  
• Hands on experience with AWS Services like VPC, EC2, S3, ELB, RDS, ECS/EKS, IAM, CloudFront, CloudWatch, SQS/SNS, Lambda
  
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code Tooling – Terraform, CloudFormation
  
• Hands on skills in scripting or coding with modern languages Python, Unix bash scripting
  
• Experience with Configuration management tooling (Ansible/Chef, Puppet good to have.)
  
• Strong Docker and Kubernetes skills 
  
• Some experience with windows or unix administration
  
• Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment Pipelines and tooling (GitLab, Jenkins, Github, Jira, or related)
  
• Should be able to propose new solutions for CI/CD implementation
  
• Experience with cloud migration technologies such as AWS SMS, AWS DMS, Cloud Endure
  
• Proven experience with homogeneous and heterogeneous database migrations from on-prem to AWS.
  

Desired Languages (If blank, desired languages not specified)

Travel Requirements
Not Specified

Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?
No

Government Clearance Required?
No

Job Posting End Date