Senior Cloud Consultant

Vertical Relevance•New York, NY

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Vertical Relevance is seeking a Senior Cloud Consultant with deep experience in TypeScript, workflow orchestration, distributed systems, and cloud-native platforms who can lead technically while remaining hands-on in code in the NY Metro area. The ideal candidate is a builder, architect, and technical leader capable of defining technical direction while writing production-quality code and operating effectively in ambiguous environments.

Requirements

8+ years software engineering experience.
Expert-level TypeScript and Node.js skills.
Hands-on workflow orchestration experience.
Strong distributed systems background including Kafka, pub/sub, retries, and idempotency.
Kubernetes or OpenShift experience.
Enterprise architecture and technical leadership experience.

Nice To Haves

AI agent platforms and orchestration frameworks.
Financial services or regulated-industry experience.
Build-versus-buy evaluation experience.
Platform engineering background.

Responsibilities

Design and implement enterprise workflow orchestration capabilities.
Build durable workflows using Temporal, Dapr, AWS Step Functions, or similar technologies.
Architect event-driven systems using Kafka and messaging technologies.
Deploy and operate containerized applications in Kubernetes or OpenShift environments.
Evaluate platform and infrastructure choices and provide architectural recommendations.
Creating a Self-Service Pipeline Framework
Assist Customers in defining Customer’s Framework capabilities based on Customer’s identified business outcomes.
Assist Customer with reviewing the Framework architecture against Customer’s identified business outcomes, to include providing general recommendations to help Customer close any observed gaps.
Provide Customer with AWS general best practices that may help Customer refine identified deployments.
Assist Customer with defining the first iteration of minimum viable product (MVP) for the DevOps Framework.
Deploying Java web apps and building new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances
Deploying Python on AWS Lambda
Deploying Java on AWS Lambda
Blue/green deployments on Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
Deploying to existing Amazon EC2 instances (Windows operating system)
Provisioning dashboards to monitor deployments.
Assist Customer in developing and implementing the first iteration of MVP in a non-production environment, under Customer’s direction and using AWS general best practices
Assist Customer with identifying next steps and proposing activities for a future follow-on engagement.
Creating a Self-Service Environment Framework
Assist in selecting tools for building Infrastructure-as-Code.
Assist Customer in the development of referenceable playbooks, supported by relevant code examples for application infrastructure code.
Assist Customer in the development of sample runbooks to automate the implementation of application infrastructure code:
Infrastructure-as-Code - Development of Infrastructure-as-Code specific to each application that can be used to automate the delivery of configured AWS resources specific to the requirements of the application being deployed.
Configuration Management - The development of configuration management modules specific to each application used to automate the configuration of servers including software installation and configuration.
Service Catalog Pipeline - Development of a framework for orchestrating build, test, deployment, and validation of infrastructure automation code.
Service Catalog - Management of Service Catalog portfolios to connect products based on selected applications.
Assist Customer with the development of a report and supporting sample code addressing the application infrastructure code as part of the playbook.