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Senior Cloud Solutions Architect (VDI/AWS Workspaces)
Mission
United StatesRemote1y ago
- Employment
- Full-time
- Seniority
- Senior
About the role
- Consult with multiple clients simultaneously to understand business and technical needs
- Be a trusted advisor to assigned clients; help align customer expectations with best practices
- Develop strategic roadmaps and project plans based on customer goals
- Work with clients and Project Managers to set expectations, drive alignment, and coordinate timelines
- Document and present recommendations to customers, including senior leadership
- Translate customer requirements into LOE estimates, design documents and keep project tracking boards up to date
- Provide guidance to Cloud Engineers as they implement customer roadmaps
- Quality check engineering work; ensure top quality work and customer satisfaction
- Support Presales Cloud Solutions Architects in proposal design and positioning
- Mentor Cloud Engineers
- Experience working in a customer-facing consulting role
- Experience developing project roadmaps, LOE estimates, and design documents
- Ability to lead customer facing projects, assigning work to teams, and quality checking engineering work
- Ability to translate technical requirements to a non-technical audience
- Ability to present solutions to customers, overcome objectives, and create consensus
- Extensive experience designing and deploying AWS WorkSpaces and AppStream/WorkSpaces Applications environments aligned to user personas, including persistent and non-persistent models. Must have led persona-based pilots/PoCs, including success criteria definition, compatibility validation, rollback planning, and user readiness considerations.
- Strong knowledge of networking for end-user computing. Must have experience with bandwidth planning, latency/RTT targets, and client connectivity considerations. Must be able to troubleshoot and remediate user experience issues caused by network conditions.
- Hands-on experience designing AWS VPC connectivity for EUC, including DNS considerations, directory reachability, routing, and enterprise connectivity patterns (e.g., VPN/Direct Connect) for WorkSpaces environments.
- Expertise with Active Directory integration and SSO standards for VDI environments, including SAML-based federation patterns and associated prerequisites/claims mapping.
- Experience designing and operating certificate-based or passwordless authentication.
- Experience with application management and virtualization, including Intune, SCCM, golden image creation, and app streaming.
- Expertise within OS and end-user computing environments (Windows/Linux WorkSpaces, profile management, and peripheral support). Demonstratable experience with OS hardening, application packaging, performance optimization (login time/resource usage), and lifecycle management (versioning/patching/testing).
- Proficiency managing WorkSpaces via automation and scripting, leveraging CLS/SDK/PowerShell tooling to standardize provisioning, configuration changes, and operational tasks at scale.
- Experience implementing EUC observability and operational readiness, including monitoring signals, troubleshooting workflows, and support playbooks for connection/performance incidents.
- Experience modernizing/migrating from VDI platforms (e.g., Citrix, Horizon, AVD) to AWS WorkSpaces, including application dependency analysis, sequencing and wave planning, and cutover planning.
- Ability to integrate WorkSpaces with enterprise SaaS solutions (e.g., Microsoft 365, Google Drive) while maintaining security and user experience.
- Demonstrated capability to identify security gaps and produce actionable remediation recommendations to strengthen a client’s VDI/EUC security posture (network boundary controls, identity posture, access controls).
- Occasional off-hours support, depending on client's need
Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
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