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Company Description

Why 2nd Watch

2nd Watch is in growth mode, and we are looking for outcome driven, focused team members who want to win and have fun doing it! We are looking for the most technically forward-thinking, cloud-passionate employees in the world, and strive daily to align our core values with those that we hire.

2nd Watch has a unique company culture and working environment that live and breathe success and promote pushing the envelope every day in your respective role at the company. This is what drives our teams – a perpetual thirst for knowledge, and a desire to work with the best people and take on big challenges together. Getting our attention takes creativity, integrity, a desire to improve yourself and your co-workers each day, and a track record of caring about who you are affecting, both positively and negatively, while you are getting the right stuff done.

About 2nd Watch

As a cloud native company, 2nd Watch has walked alongside our clients for over a decade helping them migrate to the cloud, accelerate application development, and deliver on their company’s strategic goals through the blend of technology and innovation that is at our core. Our services deliver cloud native capabilities through strategic consulting, modernization services, and specialized technology practices focused on maximizing the value of public cloud through:

• Optimization
• Analytics
• Managed Cloud Service
• DevOps
• Business Transformation
• Data Management
• Data and Analytics Advisory
• Application Modernization
• Data Science
• Datacenter Migration, Infrastructure & Architecture
• Compliance, Security & Business Continuity
• Cloud Advisory

Diversity Statement

We believe that an organization’s ability to reflect and respond to the rich diversity of our society profoundly impacts its ability to fulfill its mission and that diversity of thought and lived experiences fuels innovation and fosters sustainability. Accordingly, we are committed to fostering, cultivating, and preserving a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion, both in our own company and in partnership with our clients and the individuals we serve daily.

At 2nd Watch we celebrate diversity, and we are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. 2nd Watch does not discriminate in employment based on race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, parental status, military service, or other non-merit factor.

This role combines knowledge of legacy systems and architectures, cloud native application architecture, development skills, team leadership and strong business acumen to help clients modernize their application portfolios.

• Modernize enterprise business applications to use Event Driven and Micro-Service Architectures, Serverless, Containers, Container Orchestration Platforms, and the best managed platforms for databases, messaging and security.
• Analyze and assess existing client application portfolios; shape and deliver appropriate modernization pattern-based solutions including the creation of client modernization roadmaps
• Work with business leaders to solve business problems through the adoption of cloud native technology and building an Application Modernization Roadmap for the future
• Utilize consulting assets to collect application portfolio data and create insights to define transformation paths for their application portfolio. The methods used will continuously update the data on the application portfolio as well as the client priorities and strategies used in the modeling to create the Application Modernization Roadmap.
• Develop solutions by understanding, preparing, and analyzing data to understand opportunities for technology adoption within the client’s application portfolio and provide recommendations to optimize business results

Qualifications

• Azure SA Expert
• Expert level understanding of either .NET or Java and its use in legacy enterprise environments.
• GCP Professional Cloud Architect
• Consulting
  • Experience supporting sales and presenting in front of enterprise clients
  • Experience in high level application portfolio analysis and discovery to determine application migration and modernization paths
• Experience supporting sales and presenting in front of enterprise clients
• AWS SA Pro
• Certification – one of the following or ability to achieve in a short time
  • AWS SA Pro
  • Azure SA Expert
  • GCP Professional Cloud Architect
• Experience in refactoring legacy monolithic applications to leverage public cloud platforms, serverless and containers.
• Experience in high level application portfolio analysis and discovery to determine application migration and modernization paths
• Experience in database modernization and migration to purpose-built databases.
• Experience implementing enterprise integration patterns
• Technical
  • Expert level understanding of either .NET or Java and its use in legacy enterprise environments.
  • Experience in refactoring legacy monolithic applications to leverage public cloud platforms, serverless and containers.
  • Experience in database modernization and migration to purpose-built databases.
  • Experience implementing enterprise integration patterns

Additional Information

Benefits and Perks of working at 2nd Watch

Beyond an amazing, collaborative work environment, great people and inspiring, innovative work, we have some great benefits and perks:

• 401(k) with company stock plans to all employees
• 100% paid medical, dental and vision coverage for all employees and up to 90% paid for family, along with other wellness and disability plans
• Generous time off policy
• Competitive salaries and all employees are bonus eligible

• Colorado, California, Washington, New York City & Westchester County, NY Applicants: The salary for this position is $175k - $195k annually

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

2nd Watch is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and we are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. 2nd Watch does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, parental status, military service, or other non-merit factor.