Consultant - Cloud

Credera Experienced Hiring • Chicago, IL

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

Credera is a global consulting firm that combines transformational consulting capabilities, deep industry knowledge, AI and technology expertise to deliver valuable customer experiences and accelerated growth across various industries. We continuously evolve our services to meet the needs of future organizations and reflect modern best practices. Our unique global approach provides tailored solutions, transforming the most influential brands and organizations worldwide. Our employees, the lifeblood of our company, are passionate about making an extraordinary impact on our clients, colleagues, and communities. This passion drives how we spend our time, resources, and talents. Our commitment to our people and work has been recognized globally. The Cloud Capability is the think-tank and engine of Credera’s cloud expertise. We’re experts in all things cloud, ranging from cloud-native application architecture to cloud migrations and advisory. We leverage cloud-native technologies in AWS, GCP, and Azure to create solutions for our clients. Within the Cloud Capability, you may work in the following areas: cloud native development, cloud platform engineering, cloud data ingestion, cloud migration & adoption or cloud strategy. As a Senior Cloud Consultant, you will be a technical leader or SME in a small team deployed to deliver solutions to our client’s hardest problems. You will be responsible to help the team design and estimate implementation tasks, lead implementation work streams, and mentor junior team members. Our projects range from re-architecting legacy and building greenfield applications natively on the cloud, building landing zones and account structures, ingesting data into the cloud, and more.

Requirements

• 1-3 years of hands-on experience delivering cloud enterprise solutions across multiple domains in industry or technology consulting
• SME on a topic and are sought out by others on your team for your technical expertise and opinion
• Understanding of cloud solution architecture in one or more major cloud service providers (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Technical knowledge and experience in some of these areas: Cloud Native Tooling (AWS: Lambda, Aurora, EC2, Fargate, S3, etc.; Azure: Functions, Queue Storage, Cosmos DB, App Services, etc.; GCP: Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Functions, etc.)
• Technical knowledge and experience in some of these areas: Cloud Platform Engineering (Terraform, Cloud Formation, Azure DevOps, Github Actions, etc.)
• Technical knowledge and experience in some of these areas: Cloud Data Engineering (AWS: Athena, Glue, Redshift, etc.; Azure: Blob Storage, Data Lake Analytics, etc.; GCP: BigQuery, Looker, Cloud Storage, etc.)
• Technical knowledge and experience in some of these areas: Cloud Security Engineering (AWS: Cognito, IAM, Guard Duty, Security Hub, etc.; Azure: AD, Advanced Threat Protection, etc.; GCP: Chronicle Virus Total, Cloud Monitoring, etc.)
• Technical knowledge and experience in some of these areas: Cloud FinOps (CloudHealth, Cloudability, Billing)
• Technical knowledge and experience in some of these areas: Cloud Migration Advisor (AWS: DMS, Snow cone/ball/mobile, etc.; Azure: Database Migration Services, etc.; GCP: Migrate for Anthos and GKE, Ramp, Data Transfer Services)
• Demonstrated ability to quickly learn and adopt new technologies, frameworks, and standards
• Passion for technology and keep yourself up to date on the latest application and cloud development trends across all software development disciplines and processes
• Enjoy working as a team with other talented individuals to solve challenging problems with creative solutions
• Comfortable presenting technical concepts to a client audience, both business and technical

Responsibilities

• Help the team design and estimate implementation tasks
• Lead implementation work streams
• Mentor junior team members

Benefits

• Flexibility to work remotely two days per week
• Opportunity to choose days and times that work best for both them and their project or internal teams for in-person work
• Personal approach to travel, with staffing teams taking travel preferences into account
• Credera will never ask for money up front
• Credera will not use apps such as Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp or Google Hangouts for communicating with you

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed