Technical Consultant, AWS

Role Summary
We have an excellent opportunity for an experienced AWS Technical Consultant to join our AWS services team and play a key role in supporting our continued growth plans. These plans aim to solidify our position as a leading global Services partner with AWS. Technical Consultants are expected to routinely act as the lead on large scale, complex projects and provide mentoring to their fellow technical consultants. Our Technical Consultants provide post-sales technical consultancy, undertake delivery and implementation engagements, as well as providing pre-sales qualification and design to consultancy engagements. A typical AWS Technical Consultant will have had five or more years' experience in a technical consulting type role, with an excellent understanding and experience of delivering AWS centric solutions.
Key Duties And Responsibilities
Working in close collaboration with the local (in-country) AWS sales and technical team, along with the local Regional Service Centre, the core responsibilities of the role include, but not limited to, the following:
Project Delivery
Undertake individual consultancy assignments or work on a project as part of a larger team analysing customer requirements, gathering and analysing data and recommending solutions
Technically manage the assessment, design, and implementation of solutions
Ensure consultancy assignments are undertaken consistently and with quality
Highlight technical risks so that any Ingram Micro exposure to commercial loss can be minimised
Be familiar, harness, and deliver against key vendor programs including OLA, MAP and WAFR
Produce and update assignment documentation as required
Ensure that hand over to relevant support organisation is successfully completed
Provide technical support as requested, for internal and external customers
Lead and present at customer opportunities and workshop sessions
Pre-Sales, Scoping, and Services Development
Lead, or be part of, customer scoping calls or workshop sessions
Lead and contribute to Statement of Works
Build and maintain a good awareness of the internal SMEs areas of specialism
Identify other Ingram Micro service and sales opportunities
Support the development of the regional AWS services propositions, solutions and GTM
Work with thought leaders within Ingram Micro to allow for continued success and to help identify areas of potential growth Lead with qualification of designs and opportunities
Personal Skills Development
An active and contributing member of our regional AWS technical community
Build and maintain a strong relationship with the channel partners internal technical team
Keep up-to-date with current and future technologies, products and strategies
Build a solid skills foundation in chosen subject matter
Maintain relevant vendor certifications
Build and enhance relationships with peers
Continue development of consultative skills
Qualifications And Experience
An AWS Technical Consultant should also have the following qualifications and experience:
Required Qualifications
AWS Professional / Specialty Certification
Expected Experience (Design, Deployment And Transformation)
3+ years on AWS complex cloud environments
AWS Optimisation Licensing and Assessment (OLA)
AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP)
AWS Well-Architected Framework Review (WAFR)
Compute services (e.g. EC2, containers, serverless)
Monitoring/Observability tools (e.g. CloudWatch, Prometheus, DataDog)
CI/CD tools (e.g. CodePipeline/CodeBuild, Jenkins, GitHub Actions)
IaC tools (e.g. Terraform, CloudFormation, Serverless Framework)
Containers and orchestration tools (e.g. Docker, ECS, Kubernetes)
VPCs/Networking
Gen A/I and Machine Learning
Migrations from VMware and/or Azure
Knowledge, Skills, And Characteristics
Five or more years of experience in a technical consulting type role
Excellent communicator both verbally and written (both local and English)
Experienced, mature, influential, assertive and diplomatic
Able to operate independently or as part of a larger team
Able to technically manage other people on large scale projects
Able to network with industry peers and customers
Industry leading knowledge of chosen subject matter
A flexible approach to work and prepared 'go the extra mile' to exceed customer expectations
Applies knowledge and skills through handling complex problems beyond own area of expertise
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