AWS Senior Cloud & ML Engineering Associate Director

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You Belong Here

The Protiviti Career provides opportunity to learn, inspire, and advance within a collaborative and inclusive culture. We hire curious individuals for whom learning is a passion. We lean into our mission: We Care. We Collaborate. We Deliver.

At every level, we champion leaders who live our values of integrity, inclusion, innovation, and commitment to success. Imagining our work as a journey, we believe integrity guides our way, inclusion moves us forward together, innovation creates new destinations, and our commitment to success empowers us to deliver on our vision to be the most trusted global consulting firm.

Where We Need You

Protiviti is looking for a Technology Consulting Associate Director to join our growing Infrastructure, Cloud, & Security Engineering team.

What You Can Expect

As an Associate Director, you’ll lead complex engagements, strengthen strategic client relationships, and manage technology risk. You’ll develop practical solutions using analytics, automation, and modern tools while ensuring high-quality delivery. You’ll identify new business, represent Protiviti in the market, and mentor teams while overseeing successful project delivery.

What Will Help You Be Successful

• You enjoy implementing AWS technology.

• You are motivated to learn and interested in all things related to AWS Cloud including the latest trends and developments.

• You are passionate about building relationships with clients and providing exceptional experiences.

• You have an inherent interest in project management and team leadership.

• You promote a positive team culture that fosters open communication among all engagement team members.

• You create development opportunities for others, including participating in the creation and rollout of training, and ways for your team to improve our clients and communities.

• You have interest in contributing to the preparation of client proposals and strategies to win new business.

• You excel at identifying opportunities to integrate product solutions and resources to improve client service capabilities.

• You have interest in working with a diverse portfolio of clients across multiple industries.

What Success Looks Like in the First Year

• Owns architecture and technical outcomes for significant AWS engagements, translating ambiguity into implementable plans.

• Earns trust with client technology leaders through authoritative guidance and consistent delivery.

• Improves team quality and efficiency through reusable architectures, standards, and engineering patterns.

• Identifies well-scoped follow-on work that addresses legitimate client needs.

Do Your Talents Include the Following?

• Required skills:

• 5+ years of hands-on AWS experience across multiple service domains

• Strong Python development skills with production-quality coding practices

• Familiarity with ML lifecycle tooling (SageMaker, MLflow, or equivalent)

• Experience with agentic AI frameworks and managed agent runtimes (AgentCore, Bedrock Agents)

• Experience embedding within cross-functional teams (Data Science, Platform Engineering)

• Certifications

• Required: AWS Solutions Architect Associate, AWS Certified Generative AI Developer

• Preferred: Solutions Architect Professional, ML Specialty, or DevOps Engineer

• This resource will be instrumental in bridging the gap between data science research and production-grade AWS deployments, enabling faster iteration cycles and more robust ML infrastructure.

• Translate objectives into AWS implementation strategies and lead architecture decisions across networking, identity, security, automation, resilience, observability, operating models, and AWS Well-Architected and compliance requirements.

• Guide and mentor cloud engineers, review critical deliverables and architecture decisions, and direct resolution of complex delivery challenges.

• Ensure sustainable operational transition, manage major technical risks and dependencies, and identify improvements to architecture, security, reliability, automation, and operating models.

• Develop reusable reference architectures, delivery patterns, and technical standards.

Your Educational and Professional Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline (e.g., MIS, IS, Comp Sci., etc.).

• 7+ years working in professional services or industry.

• Professional Certification

• Required: AWS Solutions Architect Associate, AWS Certified Generative AI Developer

• Preferred: Solutions Architect Professional, ML Specialty or DevOps Engineer

Our Hybrid Workplace

Protiviti practices a hybrid model, which is a combination of working in person with a purpose and working remotely. This model creates meaningful experiences for our people and our clients while offering a flexible environment. The ratio of remote to in-person requirements vary by client, project, team, and other business factors. Our people work both in-person in local Protiviti offices and on client sites, which can include local or out-of-state travel based on our projects and client requests and commitments.

Starting salary is based on a full-time equivalent schedule. Placement in the range is dependent upon experience, skills and geographic work location. Below is the salary range for this job.

Our annual bonus plan provides eligible employees additional cash and/or discretionary stock compensation opportunities. Below is the bonus target opportunity for this job.

The total cash range is estimated from the sum of the base salary range plus the bonus target opportunity. Below is the estimated total cash range for this job.

Employees are eligible for medical, dental, and vision coverages, FSA and HSA healthcare accounts, life and accident insurance, adoption and fertility assistance, paid parental leave up to 10 weeks, and short/long term disability. We offer eligible employees a company 401(k) savings and investment plan with an employer match of 50% on the first 6% of your contributions. We provide Choice Time Off (CTO) for vacation, personal needs, and sick time. The amount of (CTO) varies based on years of service. New hires receive up to 20 days of CTO per calendar year. Protiviti also recognizes up to 11 paid holidays each calendar year.

Learn more about the variety of rewards we offer at Protiviti at https://www.protiviti.com/sites/default/files/2026-01/2026_u.s._benefit_highlights.pdf.

Any benefits outlined are part of our reward offerings for full-time employees in the U.S. Your Open Enrollment materials, insurance contracts, plan documents and Summary Plan Descriptions together comprise the official plan document which legally governs the administration of your benefit plans. Protiviti reserves the right to terminate or amend your benefit plans in any way and at any time.

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