Senior Cloud Consultant

Vertical Relevance

Role Summary
Vertical Relevance is seeking a Senior Cloud Consultant with deep experience in TypeScript, workflow orchestration, distributed systems, and cloud-native platforms who can lead technically while remaining hands-on in code in the NY Metro area.

Key Responsibilities
• Design and implement enterprise workflow orchestration capabilities.
• Build durable workflows using Temporal, Dapr, AWS Step Functions, or similar technologies.
• Architect event-driven systems using Kafka and messaging technologies.
• Deploy and operate containerized applications in Kubernetes or OpenShift environments.
• Evaluate platform and infrastructure choices and provide architectural recommendations.
Required Qualifications
• 8+ years software engineering experience.
• Expert-level TypeScript and Node.js skills.
• Hands-on workflow orchestration experience.
• Strong distributed systems background including Kafka, pub/sub, retries, and idempotency.
• Kubernetes or OpenShift experience.
• Enterprise architecture and technical leadership experience.
Preferred Qualifications
• AI agent platforms and orchestration frameworks.
• Financial services or regulated-industry experience.
• Build-versus-buy evaluation experience.
• Platform engineering background.

Technical Environment
TypeScript, Node.js, Temporal, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Kafka, AWS, Containerized Microservices, Distributed Systems, AI-enabled Workflows

Ideal Candidate Profile
A builder, architect, and technical leader capable of defining technical direction while writing production-quality code and operating effectively in ambiguous environments.
Sample Activities You’ll Do
Creating a Self-Service Pipeline Framework

• Assist Customers in defining Customer’s Framework capabilities based on Customer’s identified business outcomes.
• Assist Customer with reviewing the Framework architecture against Customer’s identified business outcomes, to include providing general recommendations to help Customer close any observed gaps.
• Provide Customer with AWS general best practices that may help Customer refine identified deployments.
• Assist Customer with defining the first iteration of minimum viable product (MVP) for the DevOps Framework.
  • Deploying Java web apps and building new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances
  • Deploying Python on AWS Lambda
  • Deploying Java on AWS Lambda
  • Blue/green deployments on Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
  • Deploying to existing Amazon EC2 instances (Windows operating system)
  • Provisioning dashboards to monitor deployments.

• Assist Customer in developing and implementing the first iteration of MVP in a non-production environment, under Customer’s direction and using AWS general best practices
• Assist Customer with identifying next steps and proposing activities for a future follow-on engagement.

• Assist in selecting tools for building Infrastructure-as-Code.
• Assist Customer in the development of referenceable playbooks, supported by relevant code examples for application infrastructure code.
• Assist Customer in the development of sample runbooks to automate the implementation of application infrastructure code:
  • Infrastructure-as-Code - Development of Infrastructure-as-Code specific to each application that can be used to automate the delivery of configured AWS resources specific to the requirements of the application being deployed.
  • Configuration Management - The development of configuration management modules specific to each application used to automate the configuration of servers including software installation and configuration.
  • Service Catalog Pipeline - Development of a framework for orchestrating build, test, deployment, and validation of infrastructure automation code.
  • Service Catalog - Management of Service Catalog portfolios to connect products based on selected applications.
• Assist Customer with the development of a report and supporting sample code addressing the application infrastructure code as part of the playbook.

• Primary Languages – Python, Bash
• Tooling, Services & Libraries – Jenkins, Gitlab, Terraform, Vault, Packer, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Git, Subversion, Docker, Kubernetes, DataDog, Serverspec

• AWS Infrastructure Scripting – CloudFormation, AWS CLI, AWS CDK
• AWS Storage Services – S3, EBS, EFS
• AWS Compute Services –EKS, ECS, Lambda, EC2, ECR
• AWS Database Services – RDS Oracle, Aurora PostgreSQL, DynamoDB
• AWS Networking Services – VPC, Route53, API Gateway, PrivateLink, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect
• AWS Developer Services – CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeCommit, CodeDeploy, AWS Cloud9
• AWS Management and Governance Services – AWS Organizations, CloudWatch, Auto Scaling, Config, CloudTrail, Service Catalog, Systems Manager
• AWS Security, Identity, Compliance Services – IAM, Key Management Service, Secrets Manager
• AWS Application Integration Services – SNS, SQS, Step Functions, EventBridge

The Company
Vertical Relevance was founded to help business leaders drive value through the design and delivery of effective transformation programs across people, processes, and systems. Our mission is to help firms at any stage of their journey develop custom solutions for success and growth. We provide a full range of services from strategy and design through to implementation and training. Our collective industry expertise is our greatest asset - our professionals have an average of 20+ years’ experience within Financial Services, across Wealth Management, Asset Management, Insurance, and Banking. Within our Customer Experience practice, we add complementary industry expertise (technology and media) synergizing the most relevant and successful customer trends. We focus wholly on your success by first rigorously assessing your business and technology challenges, and then right-sizing solutions that provide a meaningful ROI. With our industry experts hitting the ground running and focusing on nimble, quality delivery, we can see rapid, tangible improvements with our clients in productivity and effectiveness. When it makes sense for your company, we leverage our product partnerships in the areas of CRM, Sales Acceleration, Predictive Analytics, Digital Knowledge Management, and Cloud Transformation.
Vertical Relevance is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.