AWS Senior Cloud & ML Engineering Associate Director
About The Position
Protiviti is looking for a Technology Consulting Associate Director to join our growing Infrastructure, Cloud, & Security Engineering team. As an Associate Director, you’ll lead complex engagements, strengthen strategic client relationships, and manage technology risk. You’ll develop practical solutions using analytics, automation, and modern tools while ensuring high-quality delivery. You’ll identify new business, represent Protiviti in the market, and mentor teams while overseeing successful project delivery. This resource will be instrumental in bridging the gap between data science research and production-grade AWS deployments, enabling faster iteration cycles and more robust ML infrastructure. Translate objectives into AWS implementation strategies and lead architecture decisions across networking, identity, security, automation, resilience, observability, operating models, and AWS Well-Architected and compliance requirements. Guide and mentor cloud engineers, review critical deliverables and architecture decisions, and direct resolution of complex delivery challenges. Ensure sustainable operational transition, manage major technical risks and dependencies, and identify improvements to architecture, security, reliability, automation, and operating models. Develop reusable reference architectures, delivery patterns, and technical standards.
Requirements
- 5+ years of hands-on AWS experience across multiple service domains
- Strong Python development skills with production-quality coding practices
- Familiarity with ML lifecycle tooling (SageMaker, MLflow, or equivalent)
- Experience with agentic AI frameworks and managed agent runtimes (AgentCore, Bedrock Agents)
- Experience embedding within cross-functional teams (Data Science, Platform Engineering)
- AWS Solutions Architect Associate certification
- AWS Certified Generative AI Developer certification
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline (e.g., MIS, IS, Comp Sci., etc.)
- 7+ years working in professional services or industry
Nice To Haves
- AWS Solutions Architect Professional certification
- ML Specialty certification
- DevOps Engineer certification
Responsibilities
- Lead complex engagements
- Strengthen strategic client relationships
- Manage technology risk
- Develop practical solutions using analytics, automation, and modern tools
- Ensure high-quality delivery
- Identify new business
- Represent Protiviti in the market
- Mentor teams
- Oversee successful project delivery
- Owns architecture and technical outcomes for significant AWS engagements, translating ambiguity into implementable plans
- Earns trust with client technology leaders through authoritative guidance and consistent delivery
- Improves team quality and efficiency through reusable architectures, standards, and engineering patterns
- Identifies well-scoped follow-on work that addresses legitimate client needs
- Translate objectives into AWS implementation strategies and lead architecture decisions across networking, identity, security, automation, resilience, observability, operating models, and AWS Well-Architected and compliance requirements
- Guide and mentor cloud engineers, review critical deliverables and architecture decisions, and direct resolution of complex delivery challenges
- Ensure sustainable operational transition, manage major technical risks and dependencies, and identify improvements to architecture, security, reliability, automation, and operating models
- Develop reusable reference architectures, delivery patterns, and technical standards
Benefits
- Medical coverage
- Dental coverage
- Vision coverage
- FSA and HSA healthcare accounts
- Life insurance
- Accident insurance
- Adoption assistance
- Fertility assistance
- Paid parental leave up to 10 weeks
- Short-term disability
- Long-term disability
- Company 401(k) savings and investment plan with an employer match of 50% on the first 6% of your contributions
- Choice Time Off (CTO) for vacation, personal needs, and sick time
- Up to 20 days of CTO per calendar year for new hires
- Up to 11 paid holidays each calendar year
- Annual bonus plan
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
