Senior Cloud Engineer

West Monroe is excited to hire a Senior Cloud Engineer for our growing Enterprise Technology team within our Technology & Experience Practice! We’re looking for a technologist with keen business acumen to help solve some of our clients’ most complex problems, while leveraging public cloud services, automation, and other cutting-edge infrastructure tools. This is a rewarding opportunity to join a high-growth company and employee-centric culture while helping enterprise clients transform their IT infrastructure environments. 

Responsibilities:  

• Work within a team of technology consultants to design, build, and implement public cloud & IT infrastructure solutions with the goal of improving client business and technical operations 
• Interview client stakeholders, assess current state IT processes and infrastructure environments, define requirements, and make solution recommendations  
• Develop migration plans and strategies for implementing or improving cloud services, cloud-based applications, on-premises systems, end-user technology, and/or networking capabilities 
• Use Infrastructure-as-Code, scripting, and other tools to modernize client environments and automate tasks during migrations. Build and configure services on a reference architecture. 
• Demonstrate proficiency in key processes and methodologies, including Agile practices, CI/CD workflows, and requirements gathering, to ensure alignment with client expectations and maintain confidence in our ability to follow their established processes 
• Partner with architects, engagement leads, and other consultant teammates to present solution roadmaps to client executives and communicate project status updates 
• Leverage both external & internal trainings as well as our Cloud Computing-Center of Excellence to sharpen technical proficiencies, learn new technologies, and further develop leadership skills 
• Contribute to practice development such as creating re-usable frameworks, developing internal training, technology accelerators 
• Coach and mentor to junior consultants 

Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s degree in relevant field preferred, or equivalent experience required 
• Consulting firm/industry experience preferred 
• 4-6+ years of IT experience in areas such as public cloud computing (required), Windows/Linux systems, end-user technology, servers & virtualization, networking, data center, security, etc. 
• Minimum of 3 years of hands-on public cloud deployment experience 
• Experience working on Azure, AWS, and/or GCP, ‘on-prem to cloud’ migration projects and hands on experience with the following: Azure Virtual Machines, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), VNet, Azure Storage, AWS: EC2, S3, VPC, EKS 
• Experience using scripting (Python, PowerShell, etc.), automation, and/or Infrastructure-as-Code tools like Terraform to deploy hybrid-cloud environments  
• Comfortable in conveying complex public cloud and other IT concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences and presenting to executive level clients 
• Proficient verbal, presentation/facilitation, and written communication skills 
• Preferred certifications: 
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect 
  • Microsoft Azure Administrator Associate 
  • Google Cloud Associate Cloud Architect