AE Business Solutions: Cloud Solutions Architect

Life at AE:Our culture is unique and defined by our 10 core values.

This continued focus throughout our 70 year history has enabled us to continue to achieve an extraordinary growth year over year.

These accomplishments have allowed us to be named among Top Workplaces in the Madison area.Were looking for people driven by our values: Client First Mentality Care For Your Family Engage Locally Embrace Diversity Practice Honesty & Integrity Work Hard & Work Smart Laugh & Have Fun Propose Solutions Listen & Ask Questions Take Ownership & Show RespectLife at AE includes a bunch of incentives besides a comprehensive insurance package, a 401Kthe standard basket of goodies.

We also provide an ever-evolving employee experience that includes Birthday cake at 9am, AE Cares Days, referral bonuses, remote work and flexible schedule options, lunch and learns, a collaborative work environment, an environment where the interns ideas are given as much respect as the executive management.

We believe that the experience a client has with our team should be an extension of our values.The Role:A Cloud Solutions Architect is responsible for hands-on technical pre and post-sale enablement, working actively with account managers to drive business within AEs cloud, security, and network practice at new and existing enterprise clients.

AEs Solutions Architects aim to build strategy and vision while becoming a trusted advisor, partner, and point of accountability with client stakeholders.You are brilliant at time management and dedicated to transparent communication.

The Cloud Solutions Architect is a client advocate and an AE champion, you have an entrepreneur spirit, taking ownership of your clients and projects.

You have experience successfully managing moving targets with a large number of assets.You are enthusiastic about technology and are able to explain complex technical concepts in easy-to-understand terms.

You will be part of team working to understand AE clients unique challenges and priorities with a goal of defining short and long term solution architecture.

An equally important component of this role is the expectation that you continue to scale your expertise and knowledge.A Day in the Life: Work with client technical and executive audiences as a trusted advisor, partner, and as-required implementer with solutions covering cloud-native application delivery and security architecture.

You have public cloud service provider platform experience and expertise in infrastructure and application lifecycle topics (CI/CD, IaC, and DevOps).

You can automate yourself and others out of a process, out of a pipeline, or out of the way through creative use of programming, scripting, and tooling.

Experience with cloud security posture management (CSPM), cloud workload protection (CWPP), and other cloud security and application security tooling is a nice to have, but not required.

Deliver a delightful client experience through personality, communication, and technical mastery.

Design and evaluate solutions across cloud-native application delivery and security domains against client requirements.

Provide engineering expertise in pre and post-sale capacities.

Present solutions to and host learning sessions with audiences of varying size.

Build in-depth knowledge of client business and technical priorities, challenges, and initiatives mapping them to AEs core offerings and competencies.

Work with account managers and vendor partners through solution validation, proposal generation, and quoting while developing client account strategies.

Research new technology, reflect on market direction, and develop new services and solution offerings.What Youll Need: Deeply knowledgeable and experienced with at least one CI/CD platform (GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, BitBucket, CircleCI, et.

al), one IaC tool (Terraform strongly preferred, ARM, CloudFormation, et.

al), and competent with at least one language appropriate for automation/scripting (Python, PowerShell, Golang, C#, NodeJS).

Foundational understanding of one or more of the following: public CSP (Azure, AWS, GCP) cloud networking, Kubernetes, FaaS/serverless, CSP databases, CSP storage solutions.

Comfortable with an API, CLI, and GUI.

Possess or are on a path to public CSP (Azure, AWS, GCP) professional level accreditation.

Certification not required, but a plus.

Careful communicator who writes well and listens like an interpreter.

You re-read written communication before sending or printing.

Actively organized individual exercising methods toward organization, task management, and note-taking.

Receptive to professional feedback, able to self-assess, and able to provide thoughtful feedback.

Comfortable and successful engaging someone who wears a tie, skirt, t-shirt, or combination in front of a whiteboard, at a podium, on a conference call, or during happy hour.

Enjoy rapidly gaining context and knowledge in new technology areas with minimal supervision.

You have a personal lab within a cloud service provider, basement, or bunker.

Carry an innate or learned ability to accept requirements or documentation as input and output a slide deck or equivalent.

Ability to maintain or obtain certification in cloud and other relevant technology domains as professionally required or personally interested.

Comfortable with occasional travel throughout the state and enjoy yearly national travel to events and conferences with a team.

Active contributor to organizational culture, able to form and express continually curated opinions of your own.AE Business Solutions does not sponsor applications for employment visasAE Business Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer