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RSM US LLP Director - Cloud Solutions Engineer - Integrated CloudConsulting (Location Flexi in Denver, Colorado
We are the leading provider of professional services to the middle market globally, our purpose is to instill confidence in a world of change, empowering our clients and people to realize their full potential. Our exceptional people are the key to our unrivaled, culture and talent experience and our ability to be compelling to our clients. You'll find an environment that inspires and empowers you to thrive both personally and professionally. There's no one like you and that's why there's nowhere like RSM.
In order to
address the most critical needs of our clients, RSM US LLP established the
Integrated Cloud
Consulting (
IC
) practice
,
comprised
of more than
300
professionals dedicated to serving the
cloud and infrastructure platform
needs of our clients. This group includes experienced consultants
located
throughout the
globe
. We serve a diverse client base within a variety of
industries and
are focused on meeting our clients where they need us most across a variety of domains
- h
elping them
realize their stated outcomes
through our
cloud advisory,
implementation
and
operations
.
We are seeking
an
individual with both broad and deep
cloud
implementation and migration experience with a focus on complex multi-cloud and hybrid environments
to join our
team and
lead the continued growth of our cloud practice serving
RSM
clients in a variety of industries and geographic locations.
The s
uccessful candidate
will have solid working knowledge of
cloud
leading practices,
understanding of cloud architecture models,
leading vendor products
and
solutions,
cloud
technology trends
, security
design
and innovation a
s well as
experience
l
everaging
this knowledge to
b
enefit
global
organizations
.
T
he candidate will also
p
ossess
strong leadership traits and
e
xhibit
a proven
t
rack record
of developing
, launching and operating cloud
consulting
practices
.
T
his individual will ultimately be
partly
responsible for the
long-term
vision of
the cloud
practice, including the focus on developing and expanding the portfolio of solutions that are available to clients.
As
a
leader within the
IC
practice,
the
success
ful
candidate
is
responsible for
developing strong working relationships with clients built on understanding their businesses
, the
challenges
they
face
and the outcomes they are looking to achieve.
The selected candidate
will
identify
,
pursue
and close new opportunities with both existing and new clients and will provide subject matter knowledge
to support
the efforts of the broader consulting practice
.
Th
is
individual
will
also
work across multiple client account teams within a wide variety of industries.
The candidate is
responsible
to
lead
multiple team engagements simultaneously, including several
threads
of
complex implementation and migration engagements
.
In addition, this individual will
be responsible for
leading a global team of cloud specialists, developing
go to market
solutions
, working with industry leading cloud providers and technology vendors,
and
championing the
cloud practice throughout the Firm.
Successful candidates
typically have
10+
years of experience in the following
areas
:
- Confidently speaking with knowledgeable clients on the topic of cloud strategy, architecture, workload migrationplanningand common security practices such as landing zones
- Acting as trusted advisor to senior technology leaders on cloud engineering activities
- Identifyingand building cloud-based solutions to drive growth in project-based and managed services
- Developingcloud strategy for clients th tincludecloud value framework, multi-cloud strategy, and cloud program office to drive cloud transformation.
- Developingapplication rationalization approaches to create cloud migration roadmap
- Designing, architecting,implementingand supporting simple to complex enterprise cloud solutions for a variety of business use cases and requirements. Guiding and mentoring clients through the entire process
- Providingprincipal engineering support to various teams throughouta client'sdigital transformationtoa cloud native organization.
- Spearheadingstrategic cost optimization initiatives, achieving multi-million dollarsavings through infrastructure cleanups,licensenegotiationsand dynamic scaling.
- Understanding common cloud deployment models (private, public, hybrid) including platform types (IaaS, SaaS, PaaS)
- Executing solution delivery engagements for both small and large cloud environments
- Eminence buildingin the cloud industrythrough frequent publishing and speaking on relevant topics
- Managing relationships with major cloud platform providers - AWS, Azure, GCP - including working with partner representatives,maintainingexecutive levelrelationshipsandcultivating sales channels
- Recruiting top cloud talent through your network and eminence activities
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or graduate degree OR10+years of related work experience
- Highproficiencywithpopular cloudtechnologies (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Highproficiencywiththe tools and techniques for securing multi-cloud and hybrid environments
- Experiencewith private, public and hybrid cloud deployments
- Ability to communicate effectively, both in writing and verbally
- Ability to interact effectively with internal and external resources at all organizational levels
- Excellent project management, organization, and follow-up skills
- Strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills
- Must be a team player; able to work in virtual teams and independently
- Willingness and ability to travelglobally
- Strong financial and business acumen, and ability to speak about technology in the language of business
- Curiosity about business and technology; motivated with a desire to learn
- Strong Knowledge of one of the following industries would beadvantageous:
- Financial Services and Insurance
- Consumer Products
- Technology
- Industrials
- Industrials
Technical Experience
Cloud Platform Expertise
D
eep hands-on experience with one or more of the major
hyperscalers
(AWS, Azure,
GCP )
including core services like
compute
, storage,
networking
and managed services. Able to
articulate cloud strategy
and
understand existing client architectures and propose new or
improve
d
solutions
across platforms. This includes
demonstrable
understanding of
additional
platform specific capabilities and nuances, pricing
models
and limitations.
Infrastructure and Architecture
Strong foundation with on-premises infrastructure, virtualization
(
VMWare
, Hyper-V)
, networking protocols, storage architectures and data center strategy and operations.
Understanding of
hybrid and multi-cloud connectivity patterns. Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform, ARM templates or CloudFormation.
Application Modernization and Migration
Stro
ng understanding of
cloud-native,
modern
and legacy application portfolios and
experience
with
migration strategies.
Understanding of
standard application patterns and
the use of
containers (Docker, Kubernetes
)
, microservices, serverless and API management.
Experience with migration tool
i
ng and
execu
tion
methodologies (7Rs framework).
Security & Compliance
Knowledge of
cloud security frameworks, ident
it
y and access management, network security
, data