Senior Cloud Engineer

About Slalom
Slalom is a global, human-centric business and technology consulting firm. We specialise in partnering with organisations that aspire to excellence, helping them tackle complex challenges and achieve transformative results through strategy, technology, and business transformation services. By prioritising people, Slalom creates a unique consulting experience, with a team of strategists and engineers delivering practical, end-to-end solutions that drive impactful outcomes for our clients. We empower people and organisations to dream bigger, move faster, and build better tomorrows for all.

Who You’ll Work With
Slalom Build capability is Slalom’s technology powerhouse, dedicated to engineering, cutting-edge technologies, and modern development practices. We embrace diversity of thought and background, fostering a culture that values creativity and collaboration. As a trusted partner, Slalom Build helps clients maximize the value of their software by delivering fast, high-quality, and consistent solutions. We combine strategic thinking with AI-driven tools to support end-to-end delivery at any scale. Our focus is not only on building great solutions, but also on empowering people and creating lasting impact.

What You’ll Do

• Advise clients on the overall enterprise architecture landscape on various solution architecture areas including technology, information, data, security, and integration.
• Implement and architect large scale, innovative IT solutions to drive business transformation.
• Evaluate and identify IT-related risks, including compliance, operations, revenue, and growth risks.
• Engage as a trusted advisor across technology topics and the software lifecycle, articulating ROI, risk, and value.
• Develop, as part of a team, technology strategy and planning deliverables to address IT risks and improve effectiveness of the IT organization, specifically focusing on business application integration.
• Produce target state solution architectures, perform architectural assessment and gap analysis and help formulate the overall solution strategy and roadmap.
• Write technical designs and documentation; provide guidance and training to clients.
• Collaborate with clients and Slalom consultants to translate business requirements into technical requirements.
• Define activities, work products, staffing plans, cost estimations, and schedules required for migration/modernization consultation in proposals and SOWs.
• Contributes to delivery via billable roles as Delivery Solution Lead and/or in SME roles within market’s portfolio, with specific utilization target defined by level.

What You’ll Bring

• Strong ability to share ideas and communicate with peers and clients.
• Ability to lead solutioning during proposal phases or offering development.
• Fluency in the development and use of solution architecture frameworks, patterns, and best practices to drive business transformation. Familiarity and exposure to Enterprise Architecture frameworks and methodologies.
• Experience in analyzing business and technology requirements to design and build scalable enterprise application architectures. Ability to explain principles of application architecture to clients using value-based frameworks.
• Experience with client or stakeholder negotiations and presentations.
• Bring strong experience in software engineering and DevOps, particularly in production environments using AWS.
• Design and implement end-to-end CI/CD pipelines for application delivery.
• Apply expertise in configuration management and infrastructure as code, using tools such as:
  - Chef, Puppet, Ansible
  - Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM
• Contribute to security-focused engineering practices, including:
  - Identity and access management
  - Firewall configuration
  - Fundamental cloud security principles
• Knowledge of application development practices including Agile and SAFe, systems development lifecycle, GitOps, and implementation of software products.
• Demonstrate a growth mindset and eagerness to learn new technologies quickly
• Use acquired knowledge to solve practical business problems for customers
• Demonstrable experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).
• Passion for learning and a proactive approach; able to identify gaps, suggest improvements, and self-manage responsibilities.
• Willingness to be a part of high-performing team in a diverse environment, and ability to thrive in ambiguity. 
• 4+ years of experience in application architecture, development, or modernization.

Nice to Have:

• Proficiency in at least one programming language.
• Expertise in two major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).
• Hands-on experience with migration tooling (e.g., AWS MGN, Cloudamize).
• Hands-on experience delivering migration or modernization projects.
• Application rationalization or 7R evaluation experience.
• Experience with legacy-to-modern transformations (Java/.NET to containerized or serverless architectures).
• AWS certifications such as:
  - AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate/Professional
  - AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional, or AWS Certified Developer - Associate.

Skills

Application Architecture, AWS, IT Enabled Business Transformation, global business transformation, Effective Client Communication, Business Requirement Analysis, Solution Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, IT Risk Management, Proposal Development, Compliance Issues, Trust Administration, Advise Clients, Client Presentation, Manage Client Requirements, Business Solution Architecture