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Lead Infrastructure Consultant AWS

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Chicago, Illinois

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Job Description

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Infrastructure Developers help clients build and evolve systems that client organizations use to deliver and run software. They are comfortable working within teams of people with diverse roles and levels of experience to find solutions that meet the needs of the organization. They combine technical expertise and understanding with consideration of different situational needs. They champion technical quality and effective ways of working as a means to better outcomes for clients, rather than an end in themselves. They help clients to understand agile ways of working and DevOps as a mindset for collaboration.

Job responsibilities

  • You will explore the client’s needs and drive the building of a technical roadmap and impactful solution that will support their ambitious business goals.
  • You will help shape and build Thoughtworks’ cloud and infrastructure practice through collaboration with business development, marketing, and capabilities development teams.
  • You will ensure and build the controls and processes for continuous delivery and evolution of infrastructure and applications, driving automation through all stages of the process.
  • You will ensure and build the controls and processes for continuous delivery and evolution of infrastructure and applications, driving automation through all stages of the process.
  • You will take a leading role in monitoring and ensuring that technical expectations of deliverables are consistently met on projects.
  • You will provide expertise and guidance in the areas of DevOps, cloud, platform and infrastructure engineering, both internally and in client sites.
  • You will establish trusting and thoughtful partnerships with a client’s leadership across engineering and commercial functions.
  • You will lead the design and implementation of innovative solutions to current constraints and business policies.

Job qualifications

Technical Skills

  • Deep knowledge of AWS CloudFormation and AWS CDK for automating infrastructure provisioning.
  • Experience in AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, and CodeCommit (or comparable suite) for automating the software delivery process.
  • Experience integrating third-party tools with AWS CI/CD services.
  • Exposure to AWS Networking and Security.
  • Configuring IAM roles, VPCs, and Security.
  • Groups to ensure secure pipeline execution.
  • Experience in creating compute services like AWS Lambda and ECS.
  • Understanding automated compliance in AWS delivery pipeline.
  • Platform experience and GxP experience.
  • Opportunity wayfinding experience
  • Engineering Effectiveness, or DevSecOps experience.

Professional Skills

  • You genuinely enjoy interacting with teammates from across the business and have a knack for communicating technical concepts to nontechnical audiences.
  • You love creating robust, scalable, flexible and relevant solutions that help transform businesses and industries.
  • You’re comfortable partnering directly with leadership teams (CTO/CIO/COO) to design technical strategies while simultaneously collaborating with senior IT groups in an advisory capacity.
  • You adapt effortlessly to uncertainty, embrace change and confidently make decisions with limited information to achieve positive outcomes.

Business value articulation

  • Value articulation - Builds value propositions and use cases and a product roadmap that delivers value
  • Business and technology alignment - ability to assess and challenge the current alignment of the business and tech team so as to ensure the business goals, strategies, roadmaps.
  • Communications with customers, acquisition of potential customers and delivery of services of end users is jointly owned.

Iterative development and continuous learning

  • Effectively documents product decision records and keep tracking/evolving
  • Be part of the development team to understand and execute on hypothesized problem statements
  • Effectively communicates requirements in stories
  • Supports management of product governance
  • Participates in ideation process

Other things to know

Learning & Development

There is no one-size-fits-all career path at Thoughtworks: however you want to develop your career is entirely up to you. But we also balance autonomy with the strength of our cultivation culture. This means your career is supported by interactive tools, numerous development programs and teammates who want to help you grow. We see value in helping each other be our best and that extends to empowering our employees in their career journeys.

About Thoughtworks

Thoughtworks is a dynamic and inclusive community of bright and supportive colleagues who are revolutionizing tech. As a leading technology consultancy, we’re pushing boundaries through our purposeful and impactful work. For 30+ years, we’ve delivered extraordinary impact together with our clients by helping them solve complex business problems with technology as the differentiator. Bring your brilliant expertise and commitment for continuous learning to Thoughtworks. Together, let’s be extraordinary.

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Salary

Benefits: https://www.thoughtworks.com/en-us/careers/benefits

The annual salary range posted is subject to many factors and may vary depending on experience, geographic location, job responsibilities, performance, skills and/or training.

Salary
$138,000—$195,000 USD
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