Senior Consultant

Shadow-Soft seeks a Senior Consultant to join its technical consulting team.

As a Senior Consultant you will work with customers to design, implement, and troubleshoot technology initiatives in support of the organization’s goals. You will act as a hands on trusted technical advisor, guiding customers through modernization efforts to gain efficiencies and scale related to IT infrastructure and application performance. You will work closely with Shadow-Soft technical Practice Leaders to deliver value to customers and identify new opportunities to engage with customers.

Qualities we value at Shadow-Soft:

A willing communicator
Team player
Customer obsessed
Lifelong learner
Interested in the art of the possible
Problem solver

Core Responsibilities:

90% utilization target per quarter working 1-2 customer engagements at a time
Assist sales team with uncovering new service opportunities
When available, presales engineering support including but not limited to presentations, scoping, proposals, and demos
Provide input for product/service offerings at the direction of management and product managers
Remain current on existing supported technologies and maintain pace with the market as new technologies emerge
Marketing support including technical guidance, contributing content, and participation in community and industry events as requested
Customer technical mentoring/advisement
Technical writing

Technical Skills:

Infrastructure Skills

Deep TCP/IP networking background preferred
- Software-defined-networking background preferred
3 years of VMware and/or KVM Administrative experience
4 years of RHEL/CentOS (7/8/9) administration experience
2 years of automation background with Ansible and Terraform
3 years of Kubernetes administrative (EKS, GKE, AKS, OpenShift or Rancher) experience
Preferred experience with implementing security controls based on NIST 800-53, PCI DCS, and similar
Background with observability tools/platforms such as Dynatrace, Icinga, Prometheus, Grafana

Application Development

4 years of experience in Java or C#
- Experience with enterprise application servers
- Experience with messaging brokers and an enterprise service bus preferred
2 years of experience in NodeJS, React and/or Angular
2 years of experience deploying applications to Kubernetes (EKS, GKE, AKS, OpenShift or Rancher)
1 year of Tekton and Jenkins-X pipeline development experience
3 years of CICD deployment experience on traditional Jenkins
Preferred experience with implementation of security controls based on OWASP Top 10
Deep understanding of microservice design and traditional SOA architecture
Background with Service mesh using Istio, OpenShift Service Mesh and/or Consul
Background with Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Instana and/or other APM monitoring solutions

Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in a technical field and/or combination relevant experience and training
Active Amazon Web Services CSA, Azure Solution Architect, Google Professional Cloud Architect or relevant experience in lieu of certification
3+ years of consulting experience

Requirements:

Travel may be required based on customer requirements
Must be able to pass a background and drug screen at any time