AWS Cloud Consultant Lisboa

AWS Cloud Consultant
Lisboa
Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

A Cloud Consultant designs, plans and deploys AWS-based solutions while collaborating with customers and internal teams to optimize their cloud infrastructure, automation, and security. Focus is on understanding customers’ pain points and recommend and implement suitable solutions.

Tasks

A Cloud Consultant works in collaboration on customer projects. She/he acts as a member of a project team with other colleagues, customers’ staff, and/or staff of other partners. On small projects, the Cloud Consultant often acts on her/his own together with the customer.

Duties and responsibilities are:

1. Identify requirements of customers’ use cases
2. Understand the pain points of the customers.
3. Independently collect and analyze customer requirements for straightforward use cases.
4. Propose solutions with respect to cost, effort, time and best practices
5. Explain options and help decide to best benefit customers’ need

Implement and configure a wide range of AWS services.

Troubleshoot AWS-related issues.

Manage and Contribute to Projects

1. Manage small (up to 1 FTE) projects, support in
   - sized projects.
2. Collaborate with
   - functional teams to deliver integrated solutions.
3. Provide target
   - oriented information about the project tasks and their desired solution, project status (in their area of work).

Enablement

1. Provide technical guidance and support to junior (and other) consultants.
2. Provide technical guidance to customers during the project.
3. Stay current with AWS services, features, best practices, and related general trends and technology.

Communicate

1. Develop and deliver client presentations.
2. Develop and deliver technical documentation.
3. Contribute to
   - sales activities by acting as the technical expert.
4. Efficiently explain complex facts, solutions, architectures in a way that is appropriate to the target audience.

Requirements

Position requires 1-3 years of experience in Cloud Computing or Consulting (IT Focus):

1. AWS Solutions Architect Associate certification (required).
2. AWS Solutions Architect Professional or other AWS Professional/Specialty Level Certification (preferred).
3. Strong knowledge of AWS services, architecture patterns, and best practices.
4. Excellent project management and client communication skills.
5. Ability to work independently and as part of a team on a single or multiple projects.
6. Problem-solving mindset with a proactive approach to technical challenges.