Senior Consulting Engineer - Hybrid Cloud - Digital Velocity

The Digital Velocity Solutions (DVS) team within CDW is responsible for selling Digital Transformation services to help customers meet business velocity objectives.Senior Consulting Engineers at CDW are smart, hard-working Engineers who enjoy teaming with other best and brightest Engineers on highly visible, technically challenging projects and offerings. We’re looking for high-caliber, well-rounded professionals who are passionate about emerging technology, projects and consulting. 

Key Areas of Responsibility

• Drive architecture and deliver customer solutions on the Microsoft Azure or Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform with a specialized focus on Azure/AWS capabilities with experience in virtualization, migrations and automation.
• Provide consultation and direction on migrating customers environments to Cloud platforms such as Azure / AWS and lead the migration implementation efforts.
• Conduct solution discovery workshops covering: networks, virtual machines, storage, migrations, disaster recovery and additional cloud services as needed.
• Troubleshoot, maintain, upgrade, and provide solutions to complex hardware/software problems.
• Assist in the management of projects using CDW's project management methodology.
• Regularly interface with technical and business staff of customers, including the project sponsor and stakeholders of projects in more complex engagements.
• Serve as technical point of contact on customer engagements.
• Create and execute test plans to meet project requirements for assigned components.
• Identify and communicate potential opportunities for cross-selling to the sales team.
• Manage time and expense to meet or exceed expectations defined in the Statement of Work.
• Provide high quality content deliverables using the appropriate document templates.
• Work with Professional Services Managers, ATAE's, Project Managers and customers to manage expectations and timelines to ensure expectations and commitments are being met.
• Conduct/lead design workshops for complex designs to meet customer, business and technical objectives.

Education and/or Skill-Set Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business, computer science, a related technical degree or equivalent.
• 4 years’ experience delivering complex technical solutions including planning, development, implementation and support.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of consulting experience.
• Minimum 2 years of experience in the design and implementation of Azure or AWS services.

Preferred Qualifications

• 3-5 years relevant engineering experience.

• Experience with GitHub, Visual Studio Team Services and/or other CI/CD tools.

• DevOps experience is a plus.

• Experience with distributed systems is a plus.

• Linux system administration.

• Experience facilitating migrations to Azure or AWS using native services such as Azure Site Recovery or AWS Server Migration Service.

• Experience/Exposure to Azure offerings including Azure App Service, Azure ExpressRoute, Azure SQL PaaS and Network Virtual Appliances.

• Experience with PowerShell, Azure Automation, Azure CLI and/or AWS CLI.

• Experience with infrastructure as code solutions such as: Azure ARM templates, AWS CloudFormation and/or Hashicorp, Terraform.

• Experience with configuration management solutions such as: Ansible, Chef and/or Puppet.

• Proven experience as a technical thought-leader: invents new technologies, applications of technology, or ways to synthesize technologies and domain understanding to forge new market opportunities.

• Proven project oversight responsibilities and mentoring of technical teams/consultants.

• Excellent written, presentation, and verbal communication skills including demonstrated experience presenting technology recommendations from a business perspective to c-level executives.

• Professional, business-focused attitude and courteous manner towards clients, partners and peers. Ability to work weekends and/or off hours as necessary to meet clients' needs.

• Ability to understand, assess and propose solutions for resolving customer questions and issues.

• Ability to travel 25% of the time.

• Ability to effectively communicate with clients.

COVID-19 Update:
CDW is committed to maintaining a workplace that is free of known hazards and to ensuring the safety, health, and well-being of coworkers and candidates for employment and their families, as well as the community.
CDW requires all coworkers be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, with the only exceptions being a documented, legally required medical or religious accommodation.  Prior to starting with CDW, successful candidates will be required to: (i) be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and provide CDW with proof of full vaccination; or (ii) apply for and receive a medical or religious-based accommodation to be exempt from the mandatory vaccination policy.