Sr. Amazon AWS Cloud Engineer

A career within the AWS Cloud and Data Practice, will provide you with the opportunity to assist leading organizations develop and implement strategies that transform their technology capabilities and solve their most critical business challenges. We take a "cloud first" approach when building assets and delivering technology with an agile operating model. Our mindset is to always look for opportunities to automate technology and business processes. We assist our customers to embrace next generation sourcing strategies to drive success and get "fit the cloud".Joining this newly formed team will allow you the opportunity to shape, scale and provide leadership to a group of highly skilled cloud architects and engineers. You will be able to combine your consulting, technical and industry expertise to build and deliver emerging cloud solutions. With a focus on AWS Cloud and DevOps you will collaborate with internal teams and customers to implement hybrid cloud architectures, leverage cloud services, ensuring a solid foundation to run, manage and scale their critical business applications.

Meaningful work you'll be part of
As a Sr Amazon AWS Cloud Engineer, you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve business issues, deliver high quality client service and operational efficiency. Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Design, develop, build, and maintain cloud-based applications and services on the AWS platform

• Implement and manage DevOps practices, including continuous integration (CI), continuous delivery (CD), and infrastructure as code ( IaC )

• Automate deployment, monitoring, and management of cloud infrastructure and applications

• Monitor application performance and implement optimizations for scalability and reliability

• Develop and maintain comprehensive documentation for cloud architectures, processes, and procedures

• Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to cloud infrastructure and applications

• Stay updated with the latest Amazon services, DevOps tools, and industry best practices

• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior team members

Implementation, Innovation (building), and Learning
• Take an "always learning" approach to your role, continuing to advance your skills, knowledge and network in Cloud and DevOps

• Cloud moves fast and requires a lot of " labbing and learning ", be an out of the box thinker; look for opportunities to learn new software and technology

• Maintain up-to-date knowledge on AWS offerings, not limited to Migration and Modernization

• Obtain and maintain relevant certifications as needed for the Amazon Cloud Engineering Practice

• Identification and build of reusable and repeatable cloud-based patterns and artifacts that the practice can bring to market.

• Implementation of cloud agnostic use cases leveraging cloud provider and 3rd party tools to deliver business outcomes for customers based on the identified requirements.

Experiences and skills you'll use to solve
• Relevant experience working as an engineer or related capacity .

• Demonstrated experience in cloud technologies, project execution, and SDLC.

• Experience in implementation and scale of cloud-based projects with a specific focus on the following:

• Cloud technology architectures and solution options aligned to technology strategy and cloud infrastructure use cases, including hybrid cloud and deployment options (PaaS, IaaC , SaaS etc.)

• Change management practices including organizational models, roles / responsibilities and technology tooling and automation

• Application modernization strategies and tooling

• Working knowledge of supporting the removal of technical debt and legacy applications

• Solid communications skills with prior working experience in a consulting environment

• Experience working in waterfall, scrum, agile, and other methodologies

• Good oral and written communication skills, including developing business presentations and technical writing with an ability to express complex technical concepts in terms that are understandable to the business

• When applying to a Quebec based opportunity, fluency in French is required . Outside of Quebec, fluency in French is an asset

Technical experience in many of the following areas:
• Virtual Machines / EC2, VMWare

• Kubernetes (EKS, ECS, Fargate )

• RDS

• DynamoDB

• Redshift

• AWS Aurora

• Lambda

• Amazon S3

• Migration from on prem to AWS ( Assess / Mobilize / Modernization )

• AWS Cloud Networking (VPC, Subnets, etc )

• Infrastructure as code - Terraform , Cloud Formation, etc

• Configuration management - Ansible Chef, Saltstack , etc

• CI/CD - Code Build , Code Pipeline, Code Deploy , Jenkins, Spinnaker, ArgoCD , Flux

• Linux / Unix shell

• Git and various git platforms (GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket , etc )

• Agile software development and release cycle management

• Software testing and test suites

• Application monitoring and alerting

• Application migration and modernization (serverless, microservices etc.)

• Container development and management ( Containerd , Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)

• Technical presentations (POC, PowerPoint) and public speaking engagements

• Development experience (Go, Python, NPM) preferable.

• Knowledge of security best practices in cloud environments.

• Cloud certification (AWS)

Why you'll love PwC
We're inspiring and empowering our people to change the world. Powered by the latest technology, you'll be a part of diverse teams helping public and private clients build trust and deliver sustained outcomes. This meaningful work, and our continuous development environment, will take your career to the next level. We reward your impact, and support your wellbeing, through a competitive compensation package, inclusive benefits and flexibility programs that will help you thrive in work and life. Learn more about our Application Process and Total Rewards Package at: https://jobs-ca.pwc.com/ca/en/life-at-pwc

The most connected firm through activity based working
PwC Canada is committed to cultivating an inclusive, hybrid work environment - one that is collaborative, supportive and productive. We work in-person and virtually, as is best suited for our clients, teams and people . We want you to be intentional with your work, how you do it and where it's done. PwC offices are hubs of connectivity and learning. We strongly encourage our people to prioritise in-person work, whether it's in the office or at a client site. This means we expect you to be in-person (either with clients or in the office) at least half of your time. We know that hybrid work is all about balance, and capturing the benefits of in-person work is essential to your growth at the firm. Exact expectations for your team can be discussed with your interviewer.

At PwC Canada, our most valuable asset is our people and we grow stronger as we learn from one another. We're committed to creating an equitable and inclusive community of solvers where everyone feels that they truly belong. We understand that experience comes in many forms and building trust in society and solving important problems is only possible if we reflect the mosaic of the society we live in.
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