WE’RE HIRING A HEAD OF CLOUD & DEVOPS CONSULTING!

Employment Type: Full-Time/Direct Hire
Location: Atlanta, GA, Washington, DC, New York City & Charlotte, NC Metro Areas
Location Type: Hybrid - 1-2 days onsite per week - Home Office/Local Ippon office

ABOUT THE POSITION:

Ippon is seeking an experienced and dynamic Head of Cloud and DevOps Consulting to lead and manage a team of highly-skilled cloud engineering, architecture, and DevOps consultants. The Head of Cloud Consulting is a hands-on consulting leader with technical, business, and people responsibilities. This role acts as the subject matter expert and thought leadership advocate for Ippon’s services, responsible for developing, managing, and expanding the practice, and demonstrating standards for collaboration and drive.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• 5+ years of consulting experience
• 10+ years of professional experience in Operations or DevOps
• Experienced in building scalable CI/CD pipelines for the enterprise
• 7+ years working with AWS services (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, etc.) in cloud infrastructure design, deployment, and management.
• Familiarity with AI technologies and platforms (such as AWS SageMaker, TensorFlow, PyTorch, etc.) to leverage in building advanced solutions.
• Experience with Deployment Management tools such as Chef, Ansible, Terraform or Puppet
• Experience with backend infrastructure tools such as Consul, Vault, and Istio
• 7+ years of experience Production Support experience in Unix and Windows environments
• 7+ years of experience in technology delivery in a DevOps environment
• 7+ years of experience with Linux server automation and scripting
• 7+ years of experience with Container technology using Docker, ECS or Kubernetes
• 7+ years of database experience with Snowflake, Redshift, Databricks, Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, or MongoDB.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field
• Advanced AWS certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer).
• Experience with AI/ML implementation in cloud environments, especially within AWS or other cloud platforms.
• Understanding of regulatory requirements and compliance standards (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA) within the Financial Services and Insurance industries.
• Experience working with Agile Development practices.
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively in interpersonal and written formats
• Knowledge of IT strategy and management is desirable
• Demonstrated experience of presenting talks at conferences, publishing white papers, and public speaking.