Rackspace Technology is hiring a
Solution Architect

Summary

Join our team as an experienced technologist to work directly with customers, enabling innovation through continuous delivery across technology stacks and creating robust solution designs that align to business goals.

Requirements

• Fluent, Bi-lingual (Spanish and English)
• 2-3 years design & implementation experience with distributed applications
• 2-3 years of experience in networking, infrastructure, or database architectures
• Strong, in depth understanding and professional experience with AWS Cloud. services and infrastructure
• Hands on' experience with tooling and services related to cloud Automation, IaC, and DevOps
• Hands on' experience with tooling and services related to Large Cloud Migrations
• Hands on' experience with tooling and services related to Database deployments and admin
• Demonstrated knowledge of software development tools and methodologies
• Strong Presentation skills. with a high degree of comfort speaking with executives, IT management, and developers
• Excellent communication skills with an ability to right level conversations
• Demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly

Responsibilities

• Be the technical liaison between customers and engineering resources
• Provide tactical scope and work directly with the business representatives/customers to understand the requirements driving the need for a solution to be developed
• Communicate effectively with both business and technical colleagues throughout the course of the project
• Ensure that all the appropriate questions are asked and verify that nothing crucial to the success of the project is overlooked
• Be a AWS Cloud evangelist by educating a variety of customers on the value of AWS
• Help customers transition to the cloud in a high-value migration approach that leverages best of breed designs and practices delivered in an agile model
• Work with customers to enable a DevOps culture and modernize operations and release strategies
• Establish credibility and build impactful relationships with our customers to enable them to be cloud advocates
• Participate in deep architectural discussions to build confidence and ensure customer success when building new, or migrating existing, applications, software, and services on the AWS Cloud Platform
• Conduct deep-dive “hands-on” education/training sessions to transfer knowledge to customers interested in AWS and to ensure our SAs are up to date

Preferred Qualifications

• 3-5+ years of experience in customer-facing software/technology or consulting
• 3-3+ years of experience with “on-premises to cloud” migrations or IT transformations
• 3+ years of experience architecting/operating solutions built on AWS (ideally) or AWS/Azure
• AWS Professional or Associate Cloud Architect certification and/or other AWS Cloud certifications
• Technical degree; Computer Science or related