Applications & DevOps Consultant
Summary
The Applications & DevOps Consultant manages post-sales activities, designs cloud migration solutions, and implements DevOps practices for customers. The role focuses on Azure and Google Cloud environments, requiring expertise in database migration, infrastructure, and application modernization.
Job Scope
The AppDev Consultant is accountable for managing the post-sales activities by proactively assessing solution specifications in light of changing customer requirements. S/He designs, plans and implements on-premises or cloud solutions for migration, analyzes current on-premises and provides solutions to customers.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
- Run, manage and drive proof of concepts (POC) and request for proposals (RFP) and close opportunities from a presales and implementation perspective
- Help customers architect scalable, highly available application solutions that leverage Microsoft services
- Work as a technical consultant alongside customer business, development and infrastructure teams
- Work as both an infrastructure and application development specialist
- Implement DevOps practices such as infrastructure, continuous integration and automated deployment
- Participate in design, development, review and test efforts for App & Data Modernization
- Ensure efficient functioning of data storage and process functions in accordance with the company security policies and best practices in cloud security
- Provide deep software architecture knowledge with respect to cloud architecture and design patterns
- Identify, analyze and resolve infrastructure vulnerabilities and application deployment issues
- Collaborate with engineering and development teams to evaluate and identify optimal cloud solutions
- Create and execute a roadmap to modernize applications and move them to Azure
- Use ARM, Azure Policy, Blueprints and other technologies as part of integrated deployment pipelines for new solutions in Azure
- Contribute to internal R&D projects and play an active role in the broader community
- Adhere to New Signature and Client Information Security policies and ensure compliance at all times
- Maintain and update technical qualifications to provide intensive technical consulting to prospective customers
- Lead technical sales calls
Position Requirements
Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or any other related field
Experience
- At least 3 to 4 years of relevant experience in Google Cloud database migration and pre-sales / post-sales / Cloud / DB Specialist
- Database experience (Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL) along with hands-on cloud migration exposure and relevant Google Cloud certifications.
- Certifications preferred: Google Cloud Professional Cloud Database Engineer / Architect