Senior Technical Consultant, Platform Engineering

AHEAD builds platforms for digital business. By weaving together advances in cloud infrastructure, automation and analytics, and software delivery, we help enterprises deliver on the promise of digital transformation.

At AHEAD, we prioritize creating a culture of belonging, where all perspectives and voices are represented, valued, respected, and heard. We create spaces to empower everyone to speak up, make change, and drive the culture at AHEAD. 

We are an equal opportunity employer, and do not discriminate based on an individual's race, national origin, color, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, marital status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law, whether actual or perceived. 

We embrace all candidates that will contribute to the diversification and enrichment of ideas and perspectives at AHEAD. 

Serving as a technical thought leader and SME for our ecosystem of partners, customers, and service providers in the realm of Modern Apps & Platform Engineering, the Senior Technical Consultant works as part of the consulting team to lead the development, design, implementation and engagement leader of client solutions. Senior Technical Consultants mentor and provide direction to engineers on a project by project basis and within the broader organization as it relates to internal initiatives and indirect project support.

Roles and Responsibilities Designs and Implements complex, mission-critical transformational enterprise grade technical solutions for clients.

Ability to drive modernization efforts for Enterprise customers on AWS/AZURE.

Understanding of Azure/AWS/GCP architecture and services. Proficiency in core Azure/AWS services (EC2, EBS, VPC etc). Familiarity with networking concepts (VPNs, Direct Connect, Transit Gateway).

Experience with AWS/Azure Migration Hub for assessment and planning, proficiency in AWS Application Migration Service (AWS MGN) or Azure Migrate, ModelizeIT, VMWare vRNI (Aria Operations).

Knowledge of AWS security best practices and services (IAM, Security Groups, KMS), Understanding of compliance frameworks relevant to AWS or Azure. Knowledge of AWS or Azure operational best practices (monitoring, logging, automation).

Ability to analyze and optimize costs in the AWS or Azure environment, Skills in rightsizing AWS or Azure resources for performance and cost efficiency.

Experience working with container technology like Docker, Podman, Kubernetes(EKS/GKE/AKS), Service Mesh(Solo, Istio), Ingress Controllers, Container Networking(Calico, CNI), Network Policies, GitOps (FluxCD/ArgoCD), CRDs, Blue Green Deployment.

Experience with CICD Tools like Spacelift, Jenkins, Github actions, Harness, Azure Devops, AWS Code Pipeline/Deploy.

Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform, Azure ARM, AWS Cloud Formation, Pulumi, Bicep, Python Boto3 and Configuration Management tools like Ansible, Puppet, Chef.

Good Scripting Knowledge to develop automations using Python, Powershell or bash.

Knowledge of VMware technologies (vSphere, vSAN, NSX), Understanding of VMware HCX for VM migration

Experience developing Platforms for AI using cloud native tools like AWS Bedrock, AWS Sage Maker, Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search, Google Vertex.

Knowledge on working with AI Frameworks like Langchain, Langsmith and building RAG based Applications.

Qualifications Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

Experience working in Platform, Devops, Cloud Engineering teams.

8+ years of IT experience and 4+ years of Cloud, Migration, Automation, Application Modernization, Digital Transformation experience. 

Strong consulting and business acumen to lead customer conversations and drive new initiatives

Multiple Professional/Associate/Speciality certifications like AWS Solution Architect Associate, AWS certified Networking/Security speciality, Azure administrator Associate, Certified Kubernetes Administrator/Developer/Security(CKA/CKAD/CKS), Terraform certified Associate, Argo certified engineer, Istio certified engineer.

Excellent written & verbal communication and interpersonal skills.

Why AHEAD:

Through our daily work and internal groups like Moving Women AHEAD and RISE AHEAD, we value and benefit from diversity of people, ideas, experience, and everything in between.

We fuel growth by stacking our office with top-notch technologies in a multi-million-dollar lab, by encouraging cross department training and development, sponsoring certifications and credentials for continued learning.

India Employment Benefits include:  Comprehensive health insurance coverage for employees, with options to extend coverage to dependents Paid time off and company holidays, along with additional leave benefits as per policy Flexible work arrangements, supporting work-life balance Learning and development opportunities to support continuous growth and upskilling Employee wellness initiatives and programs focused on physical and mental well-being Retirement and statutory benefits in line with India regulations Inclusive and people-first culture, with a strong focus on collaboration and ownership