Effectual

Frontend Engineer

• Design, develop, and deploy cloud-based web applications for clients
• Collaborate with architects, project managers, and client leadership to deliver high-quality cloud solutions
• Provide technical support and design innovative cloud solutions aligned with business objectives
• Design new software solutions and set architectural direction for projects
• Evaluate, test, design, develop, and integrate new cloud technologies and modernization efforts
• Serve as technical lead and contribute to architectural norms for the practice
• Lead large cross-team feature releases and coordinate with client teams
• Independently own the lifecycle of medium and large features from design through deployment
• Support and maintain existing software; investigate and correct defects
• Improve maintainability and performance through application refactoring
• Build, deploy, and maintain CI/CD pipelines; perform pull/merge requests, branch management, and deployments
• Review technical design documentation, create proper documentation, and evangelize long-term technical direction

Principal Software Engineer, Front End

Backend Engineer

• Design, install, configure, and maintain cloud-based database environments
• Monitor database performance and proactively identify and address performance issues
• Ensure the security of the database environment, including access control and data encryption
• Develop and implement backup and recovery procedures to ensure the integrity of the database
• Plan and execute database upgrades and migrations
• Provide technical support to end-users and troubleshoot issues with the database
• Automate database maintenance and management tasks where possible
• Create as-built documentation for database service configurations and options
• Stay current with emerging trends and technologies in cloud-based database solutions
• Maintain familiarity with infrastructure as code (IaC) and CI/CD pipeline with respect to cloud database offerings
• Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders to ensure the database architecture design meets performance and scalability requirements

Senior Database Engineer

DevOps Engineer

• Effectual DevOps Engineers are members of the Professional Services (PS) team responsible for ensuring that customer-facing projects are delivered with exceptional customer satisfaction and technical excellence. Effectual DevOps Engineers are "Brand Ambassadors" and are expected to stay current on leading practices to deliver high-quality, well-conceived solutions to customers.
• DOEs are skilled, experienced technologists who deliver to customers; ...
• Essential Duties and Responsibilities: Enabling customers' use of AWS to achieve their business objectives through: Kubernetes ecosystem; Kubernetes ecosystem, Istio, Linkerd, Consul, etc.; Design, deploy, maintain, and troubleshoot large microservices estates in production on Kubernetes; Service mesh deployment and integration; Using Helm Charts, CRDs; Creating cloud-native CI/CD workflows for containers with Jenkins, CodeDeploy, CodePipeline, Gitlab, etc.; Hands-on experience with microservices and distributed architecture; Extensive experience in a scripting language (Bash, Python, JavaScript, etc.); Extending AWS cloud infrastructure; Configuring AWS cloud infrastructure for efficiency; Creating infrastructure as code; Assisting in migration of customers from on-premises to AWS; etc.

Cloud Engineer

Effectual Cloud Architects are responsible for technical leadership of Professional Services projects. They partner with Effectual’s Engagement Managers to deliver an exceptional customer and delivery team experiences. Effectual Cloud Architects are “Brand Ambassadors” and are expected to demonstrate Effectual’s experience and expertise through the delivery of high-quality, leading-practice solutions to customers.

A Glimpse into the Daily Routine of a Cloud Architect

Cloud Architects lead delivery teams. On a given day, you may be asked to:
Design and document a system in AWS to meet customer needs and requirements.
Meet with a customer or internal team member to troubleshoot, educate, and unblock implementation progress.
Partner with an Engagement Manager to craft a customer communication.
Driving the implementation of leading practice architecture for assigned clients.
Architecting and building solutions in AWS (e.g., Landing Zones, container platforms, application hosting environments, data storage solutions, etc.) using various AWS services like Control Tower, EKS/ECS, S3, Transit Gateway, EC2, etc.
Conducting cost-benefit and risk-reward analyses
Designing solutions, development and deployment plans, and high-level solution validation processes for execution by delivery teams
Being accountable for the overall technical success of client projects
Gather requirements, document current state, and educate customers on your solution approach.
Jump on a pre-sales call to demonstrate Effectual’s expertise and experience to a potential customer.
Challenging team members on technical solution approaches and holding them accountable for implementation success.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Championing technical excellence by:
• Driving the implementation of leading practice architecture for assigned clients.
• 3+ years architecting AWS infrastructure.
• 3+ years building AWS infrastructure, including at least 1 AWS Professional certification
• Strong working knowledge of leading AWS cloud security practices
• Proficient in developing Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform / AWS CloudFormation)
• Proficient in at least one or more programming / scripting languages (e.g., Python, Java, Node, etc.)
• Ability to work Eastern Standard Time Zone schedule but support customers in different regions
• Container development using Kubernetes, Docker, AWS EKS, etc.
• Demonstrable knowledge of Agile and Waterfall SDLC methodologies
• Container orchestration using platforms such as Kubernetes, Docker, AWS EKS, etc.
• Implementing static and dynamic code analysis tools within CI/CD pipelines
• Use of code analysis tools such as AWS X-Ray, AppDynamics, Dynatrace
• Prior management experience is helpful, even though this is an individual contributor role.
• Ability to work with multiple clients, in parallel.

• Design and document a system in AWS to meet customer needs and requirements.
• Gather requirements, document current state, and educate customers on your solution approach.
• Meeting with a customer or internal team member to troubleshoot, educate, and unblock implementation progress.
• Jump on a pre-sales call to demonstrate Effectual’s expertise and experience to a potential customer.
• Challenging team members on technical solution approaches and holding them accountable for implementation success.
• Serving as a mentor to team members around leading practices

Qualifications
• 7+ years of continual, prior experience working as a Solution Architect consisting, in parallel, of at least: 3+ years architecting AWS infrastructure
• 3+ years architecting AWS infrastructure, including at least: 3+ years building AWS infrastructure
• 1+ year DevOps toolchain experience (e.g., GitHub, GitLab, AWS Code* Suite)
• At least one (1) AWS Professional certification
• Strong working knowledge of leading AWS cloud security practices
• Proficient in developing Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform / AWS CloudFormation)
• Proficient in at least one or more programming / scripting languages (e.g., Python, Java, Node, etc.)
• Ability to work Eastern Standard Time Zone schedule but support customers in different regions
• Container development using Kubernetes, Docker, AWS EKS, etc.
• Demonstrable knowledge of Agile and Waterfall SDLC methodologies
• Container orchestration using platforms such as Kubernetes, Docker, AWS EKS, etc.
• Implementing static and dynamic code analysis tools within CI/CD pipelines
• Use of code analysis tools such as AWS X-Ray, AppDynamics, Dynatrace
• Proficient in developing Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform / AWS CloudFormation)
• Demonstrable knowledge of Agile and Waterfall SDLC methodologies
• Container orchestration using platforms such as Kubernetes, Docker, AWS EKS, etc.
• Strong working knowledge of leading AWS cloud security practices
• Prior management experience is helpful, even though this is an individual contributor role.
• Ability to work with multiple clients, in parallel.
• Container development using Kubernetes, Docker, AWS EKS, etc.
• Container orchestration using platforms such as Kubernetes, Docker, AWS EKS, etc.
• Demonstrating knowledge of Agile and Waterfall SDLC methodologies
• Ability to work with multiple clients, in parallel.
• 1 AWS Professional certification

• 3+ years building AWS infrastructure, including at least:
• Container orchestration using platforms such as Kubernetes, Docker, AWS EKS, etc.
• Designing and building AWS architectures for multi-tenant cloud environments
• Experience with AWS security best practices and governance

Nice-to-Have Skills and Experience
• Additional AWS certifications (e.g.
, Developer Associate, SysOps Administrator Associate, Solution Architect Associate, etc.)
• Strong working knowledge of leading AWS cloud security practices
• Container development
• Container orchestration using platforms such as Kubernetes, Docker, AWS EKS, etc.
• Proficient in coding configuration management tooling (Ansible, Chef, Puppet, etc.)
• 1 AWS Professional certification
• 3+ years building AWS infrastructure
• Strong communication and collaboration skills

Senior Cloud Architect

Full-stack Engineer

• An Effectual Software Engineer designs, develops, and deploys cloud-based applications for clients; collaborates with architects and project managers and reports to the Software Engineering Manager
• Participate in 2-week sprint cadence: daily stand-ups, task prioritization, grooming, estimation, peer code reviews, and sprint demos
• Provide technical support and innovative cloud solutions by designing, architecting, maintaining, and operationalizing cloud-based .NET applications and systems on the AWS Cloud
• Design, implement, integrate, maintain, optimize, and administer cloud solutions, infrastructures, and platforms
• Evaluate, test, design, develop, and integrate new cloud technologies and recommend future technologies
• Support and maintain existing software functionality; investigate, analyze and correct defects
• Improve maintainability and performance through application refactoring
• Independently own lifecycle of medium and large features from design through deployment
• Perform pull requests/merge requests, branch management, builds and deployments
• Build, deploy, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for multiple stacks
• May serve as a technical lead on projects
• Review technical design documentation and participate in technical reviews
• Create proper documentation for software being built

Senior Software Engineer

Data Engineer

Data Architect

• The Cloud Storage Engineer specializes in designing, implementing, and managing cloud-based and hybrid storage solutions with deep expertise in AWS and NetApp technologies. This role is responsible for building and optimizing scalable storage architectures that ensure performance, cost-efficiency, availability, and security. Key responsibilities include designing and maintaining storage solutions across object storage (S3), file systems (EFS, FSx for NetApp ONTAP), and high-performance computing environments, as well as leveraging NetApp features such as SnapMirror, SnapClone, and BlueXP (formerly CloudInsight) for advanced data management. The engineer will develop and execute data replication and migration strategies, implement robust data protection for business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR), and apply Infrastructure as Code and automation to streamline storage operations. This position ensures compliance with regulatory requirements while delivering resilient, efficient, and secure data storage systems to support the organization’s evolving needs.

Cloud Storage Engineer

Project Manager

• Develop and execute comprehensive project plans for cloud, AI, and digital transformation initiatives, ensuring alignment with client goals, scope, and timelines
• Apply Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid methodologies tailored to client needs and project complexity
• Facilitate Scrum events (Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Planning, Retrospectives, Backlog Refinement) ensuring productive, time-boxed sessions
• Serve as primary contact between clients, delivery teams, and internal stakeholders, maintaining alignment, trust, and transparency
• Communicate proactively on project updates, risks, milestones, and issue resolution
• Partner with sales and solution architects on project scoping, SOW alignment, and change management
• Lead cross-functional teams including cloud engineers, AI/ML specialists, data consultants, and SMEs
• Coach teams in self-organization, cross-functionality, and Agile engineering practices
• Remove impediments and blockers while fostering collaborative, high-performing team culture
• Proactively identify risks, dependencies, and delivery challenges; develop mitigation strategies
• Ensure deliverables meet or exceed client expectations and contractual commitments
• Conduct project reviews and retrospectives to drive continuous improvement

Project Manager II

• Effectual Project Manager are members of the Project Management Office within Effectual Professional Services (PS) organization responsible for ensuring that customer-facing projects are delivered in-scope, on-time, and on-budget with customer satisfaction, while ensuring a positive experience for the delivery team. You are a "Brand Ambassador" and are expected to advocate for achieving our customer's defined outcomes through the delivery of our services, leading our Professional Services software development and cloud engineering teams.
• In this client-facing role, you\'ll work with traditional project management & Agile/Scrum practices to deliver solutions on time and within budget. Reporting to the Sr. Manager, PMO, you\'ll collaborate with dynamic cross-functional teams to manage resources, track progress, and align with organizational goals and drives real value for our clients.
• Essential Duties and Responsibilities: Project Planning and Execution
• Assist with the planning and execution of projects, including defining project scope, objectives, deliverables, and timelines.
• Team Management: Provide direction and guidance to project teams, motivating them to achieve project goals and deliver high-quality results.
• Team Management: Assign tasks, assist in setting priorities, and foster a collaborative work environment that encourages teamwork and innovation.
• Administer the back-ends systems and process that allow the technical teams to focus on project delivery
• Risk Management: Identify potential risks and issues that may impact project success and develop strategies to mitigate them.
• Client Relationship Management: Serve as point of contact for clients, building and maintaining relationships through regular communication and collaboration.
• Keep clients informed of project progress, address their concerns, and seek opportunities to add value to their business.
• Quality Assurance: Ensure project deliverables meet quality standards and client requirements.
• Conduct regular reviews and administer corrective actions as necessary to maintain project quality and client satisfaction.
• Proactively monitor project risks throughout the project lifecycle, implementing contingency plans as needed to minimize disruptions.
• These and any other employee benefit offerings are subject to management’s discretion and may change at any time.

• As a Data Engineer, you play a key role in building and maintaining the data architecture that supports our business needs. Your work includes developing scalable data pipelines to transform and move data from diverse sources, enabling analysts and data scientists to work with clean, accessible datasets.
• You'll focus on the secure and efficient management of data systems, ensuring information is stored effectively and retrieved quickly when needed. This includes designing, testing, and maintaining data architectures such as databases, data warehouses, data lakes, and large-scale processing systems.
• In this role, you'll assemble large, complex datasets to meet both functional and non-functional requirements. Expect to build high-performance algorithms, predictive models, and proofs of concept while using modern programming languages and tools to integrate systems and manage complex data workflows.
• A day in the life of a Data Engineer states with building and delivering high quality data architectures and pipelines that support clients, business analysts, and data scientists. A Data Engineer also interfaces with other technology teams to extract, transform, and load [ETL] data from a wide variety of data sources. Effectual Data Engineers continually improve ongoing reporting and processes, as well as automate or simplify self-service for our clients. Effectual Data Engineers develop, code, and deploy scripts written in the Python programming language, as Python is the language of Data. All Data Engineers are first and foremost Software Engineers with an understanding of the SDLC process.

Network Engineer

• Move networks and functions to private, public, and hybrid cloud infrastructures to maximize flexibility and productivity
• Collaborate with Cloud Engineers, Cloud Architects, and other team members to meet client needs
• Design and implement AWS networking infrastructure from design to deployment
• Deploy AWS VPCs, subnets, ACLs, and security groups
• Deploy AWS Transit Gateways, VPC peering and other interconnect technologies (e.g., Palo Alto, Cisco, BGP)
• Implement and configure AWS Direct Connect connections
• Use Infrastructure-as-Code (CloudFormation, Terraform) to ensure repeatable AWS infrastructure
• Establish visibility into network operations through monitoring and logging via VPC flow logs and load balancer logging
• Document development/pre-production/production network environments; diagram and test
• Configure on-prem to AWS hybrid networking; validate connectivity
• Advisory: advise clients on networking changes to support connectivity to AWS; execute migration plans and migration development
• Participate in daily team meetings to review progress; maintain transparency and accountability

Cloud Network Engineer

• Project Leadership & Delivery: Develop and execute comprehensive project plans for cloud, AI, and digital transformation initiatives, ensuring alignment with client goals, scope, and timelines
• Apply Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid methodologies tailored to client needs and project complexity
• Facilitate Scrum events (Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Planning, Retrospectives, Backlog Refinement) ensuring productive, time-boxed sessions
• Client & Stakeholder Management: Serve as primary contact between clients, delivery teams, and internal stakeholders, maintaining alignment, trust, and transparency
• Communicate proactively on project updates, risks, milestones, and issue resolution
• Partner with sales and solution architects on project scoping, SOW alignment, and change management
• Team Leadership & Coaching: Lead cross-functional teams including cloud engineers, AI/ML specialists, data consultants, and SMEs
• Coach teams in self-organization, cross-functionality, and Agile engineering practices
• Remove impediments and blockers while fostering collaborative, high-performing team culture
• Risk & Quality Management: Proactively identify risks, dependencies, and delivery challenges; develop mitigation strategies
• Ensure deliverables meet or exceed client expectations and contractual commitments
• Conduct project reviews and retrospectives to drive continuous improvement

Project Manager II - Professional Services

• As an Effectual Senior Cloud Migration Engineer you will be an important member of a migration team assisting clients who are migrating from on-premises infrastructure or VMC to AWS cloud native services. You will work with a technical leader to implement, and manage, and migrate workloads to AWS cloud environments, while maintaining optimal migration strategies for diverse application portfolios. The engineer will utilize AWS-native services, containerization, serverless architectures, and advanced analytics capabilities to modernize and migrate applications, ensuring seamless transitions that align with best practices and the Well-Architected Framework.\n• This positions reports to Sr Manager, Migrations and Modernizations.\n• A Glimpse into the Daily Routine of a Senior Cloud Migration Engineer\n• As an Senior Effectual Cloud Migration Engineer, you will be responsible for planning, executing, and optimizing cloud migration projects on the AWS platform. You will leverage your expertise in AWS migration tools and methodologies to ensure successful and efficient migrations for our clients. Additionally, you will provide technical leadership and mentorship to customer engineers as they begin to adopt AWS services.\n• Responsibilities\n- Utilize AWS migration tools and methodologies to assess, plan, and execute migrations of workloads to the AWS platform.\n- Design, deploy, and maintain scalable and highly available cloud infrastructure solutions.\n- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless application migrations across compute, storage, networking, and security.\n- Develop and maintain automation scripts and infrastructure-as-code (IaC) templates to streamline the provisioning and configuration of cloud resources\n- Implement and manage cloud services and resources, such as virtual machines, containers, storage, networking, and serverless computing\n- Provide technical guidance and expertise to client cloud engineers and support teams as they adopt AWS\n- Collaborate with security teams to implement and enforce cloud security measures, including access controls, encryption, and threat detection.\n- Support incident response and troubleshooting of cloud infrastructure-related issues, ensuring minimal service disruptions

Senior Cloud Migration Engineer

Operations

• Cloud FinOps SME to join our team and bring clarity, strategy, and accountability to the way we manage cloud costs.\n• In this role, you’ll be a trusted advisor and expert in cloud financial operations—driving cost optimization, improving financial visibility, and helping teams make smarter, data-driven decisions about their cloud usage.\n• You’ll work across departments, connecting IT, security, finance, and business teams to ensure cloud spending aligns with overall business goals.\n• Lead the development and implementation of FinOps practices across multi-cloud environments.\n• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to build strategies that optimize cloud usage and reduce waste.\n• Provide meaningful insights and reporting on cloud spend and trends—helping teams forecast, budget, and stay within targets.\n• Use risk management principles to identify and mitigate financial and operational risks tied to cloud services.\n• Participate in (and sometimes lead) reviews and assessments of IT and cloud operations, identifying areas for improvement.\n• Support IT transformation initiatives by ensuring financial efficiency is a core part of the change process.\n• Recommend oversight strategies based on your understanding of IT/IS goals, risks, and solutions.\n• A FinOps certification (like FinOps Certified Practitioner).\n• Experience with cloud cost management tools and platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).\n• A background in regulated industries or experience working with federal/state agencies.

Cloud FinOps SME

• As an Effectual Cloud Migration Engineer, you will be an important member of a migration team assisting clients who are migrating from on-premises infrastructure or VMC to AWS cloud native services.\n• You will work with a technical leader to implement, and manage, and migrate workloads to AWS cloud environments, while maintaining optimal migration strategies for diverse application portfolios.\n• The engineer will utilize AWS-native services, containerization, serverless architectures, and advanced analytics capabilities to modernize and migrate applications, ensuring seamless transitions that align with best practices and the Well-Architected Framework.\n• This positions reports to Sr Manager, Migrations and Modernizations.\n• Responsibilities include planning, executing, and optimizing cloud migration projects on the AWS platform, leveraging AWS migration tools and methodologies to ensure successful migrations for our clients.\n• Additionally, you will provide technical leadership and mentorship to customer engineers as they begin to adopt AWS.\n• Collaborate with security teams to implement and enforce cloud security measures, including access controls, encryption, and threat detection.\n

Cloud Migration Engineer

• Effectual Sr. DevOps Engineers (SDOEs) are members of the Professional Services (PS) team responsible for ensuring that customer-facing projects are delivered with exceptional customer satisfaction and technical excellence. Effectual Sr. DevOps Engineers are "Brand Ambassadors" and are expected to stay current on leading practices to deliver high-quality, well-conceived solutions to customers.\n• What makes a successful SDOE? SDOEs are skilled, experienced technologists who stay current on leading practices, act in the interests of our customers to deliver fit-for-purpose solutions to their needs to achieve defined business outcomes.\n• Essential Duties and Responsibilities: Enabling customers' use of AWS to achieve their business objectives through: AWS Cloud technologies; Kubernetes ecosystem; Designing, deploying, maintaining, and troubleshooting large microservices estates in production on Kubernetes; Service mesh deployment and integration such as ISTIO, Linkerd, Consul, etc.; Using Helm Charts, Custom Resource Definitions; Creating cloud-native CI/CD workflows for containers with tools such as Jenkins, CodeDeploy, CodePipeline, Gitlab, etc.; Hands-on experience with microservices and distributed architecture in a multi-tier environment (Dev, Test, Prod, etc.); Extensive experience in a scripting language (Bash, Python, JavaScript, etc.); Creating and leveraging code to define and automate cloud infrastructure (e.g.: AWS CloudFormation templates, Terraform, AWS CDK, etc.); Automating infrastructure and application deployment and testing in development, pre-production, and production environments; Hands-on experience in a language such as Python, Ruby, Go, Swift, Java, .Net, C++ or similar object-oriented language.; Extensive experience with git version control, git branching, and CI/CD practices; Container development and orchestration in Kubernetes, AWS EKS, Helm, CRD's, etc.; Creating cloud-native CI/CD workflows for containers with Jenkins, CodeDeploy, CodePipeline, Gitlab, etc.; Leading technical design sessions, conduct code reviews for Infrastructure-as-Code implementations, and facilitate knowledge transfer sessions to elevate the overall technical capabilities of the team while fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement; Mentorship for other engineers on the team or with the customer’s team.; Extensive experience with Kubernetes service mesh architectures such as ISTIO; Advanced-level knowledge in networking and routing within AWS; Master\'s degree or higher in engineering or information systems study; Contributor to Open-Source community; Hands on experience in a production stack with GitOps workflows using Git, ArgoCD, and app of apps patterns, Prometheus, Grafana, etc.; Experience with Kubernetes service mesh architectures such as ISTIO; Proficient in developing Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g.: Terraform / AWS CloudFormation); Proficient in coding configuration management tooling (e.g.: Ansible, Chef, Puppet, etc.); Proficient in at least one or more programming / scripting languages (e.g.: Python, Ruby, Go, Swift, Java, .Net, C++); Demonstrable knowledge of Agile methodologies; Attention to detail; Exceptional communication and time management; The ability to work in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities.