📋 AWS Delivery Consultant Role – Round 6 Interview Questions

Cloud Architecture & Design

1. If you have to design a scalable, secure, and highly available three-tier web architecture in the cloud, how would you go about doing it?
2. How do you handle latency (specifically at the presentation/application layer)?
3. If the traffic is already cached, how do you handle that during deployment?

Security

1. How do you secure entire endpoints or APIs?
2. What is the difference between authentication and authorization?
3. How do you make the architecture secure? (as part of the three-tier architecture question)

Containers & Orchestration

1. Do you have any experience working with containers or container orchestration?
2. What component of Q Transform are you referring to when you spoke about Q Transform and containers?

Load Balancers

1. What different load balancers did you use?
2. What is the difference between ALB and NLB?
3. Which layer does each operate on?

Storage & RAID

1. Do you have experience or understanding about what RAID is?
2. What are the different types of RAID (you mentioned zero and one)?

Networking

1. What is NAT exactly and how does it come into picture? How could you use NAT?

Deployment Strategies

1. Did you work on any different deployment strategies?
2. When will you choose blue-green versus canary-based deployments?
3. How would you design a DR drill which is pretty quick?

Infrastructure as Code

1. When would you choose CloudFormation versus Terraform?
2. If you have to create reusable patterns or reusable code for different teams or application teams, how do you go about doing it?
3. How do you ensure you are using the same modules or creating multiple resources using the same module?
4. If you want to create resources of the same type and same configuration, what would you use?
5. How does state file come into picture when two developers are working on the same code?

CI/CD

1. Do you have experience working on any CI/CD tools?
2. Do you have experience setting up runners for GitLab?
3. If you have to write a GitLab pipeline file for a .NET application, how would you go about designing it?
4. How is GitLab authenticating (OIDC credentials)?
5. How does collaboration happen between your pipeline and the runner?
6. If you want to deploy to multiple environments, how do you handle that piece?
7. Would you use the same pipeline or different pipelines for multiple environments?
8. How is the runner authenticating to both non-prod and prod environments?

Cost Optimization

1. If you want to optimize cost for a complete application, how do you go about doing it?

AWS Organizations & Landing Zones

1. Any experience working with landing zones and organizations?

DESCRIPTION

The Amazon Web Services Professional Services (ProServe) team is seeking a skilled Delivery Consultant to join our team at Amazon Web Services (AWS). In this role, you'll work closely with customers to design, implement, and manage AWS solutions that meet their technical requirements and business objectives. You'll be a key player in driving customer success through their cloud journey, providing technical expertise and best practices throughout the project lifecycle.

Possessing a deep understanding of AWS products and services, as a Delivery Consultant you will be proficient in architecting complex, scalable, and secure solutions tailored to meet the specific needs of each customer. You'll work closely with stakeholders to gather requirements, assess current infrastructure, and propose effective migration strategies to AWS. As trusted advisors to our customers, providing guidance on industry trends, emerging technologies, and innovative solutions, you will be responsible for leading the implementation process, ensuring adherence to best practices, optimizing performance, and managing risks throughout the project.

The AWS Professional Services organization is a global team of experts that help customers realize their desired business outcomes when using the AWS Cloud. We work together with customer teams and the AWS Partner Network (APN) to execute enterprise cloud computing initiatives. Our team provides assistance through a collection of offerings which help customers achieve specific outcomes related to enterprise cloud adoption. We also deliver focused guidance through our global specialty practices, which cover a variety of solutions, technologies, and industries.

Key job responsibilities

• Designing and implementing complex, scalable, and secure AWS solutions tailored to customer needs
• Providing technical guidance and troubleshooting support throughout project delivery
• Collaborating with stakeholders to gather requirements and propose effective migration strategies
• Acting as a trusted advisor to customers on industry trends and emerging technologies
• Sharing knowledge within the organization through mentoring, training, and creating reusable artifacts

About the team

Diverse Experiences: AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job below, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn't followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don't let it stop you from applying.

Why AWS? Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that's why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Inclusive Team Culture - Here at AWS, it's in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship & Career Growth - We're continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth's Best Employer. That's why you'll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance - We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there's nothing we can't achieve in the cloud.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 3+ years of experience in hands-on cloud enterprise architecture design, storage and networking solutions
• 3+ years of experience in consulting and working with enterprise customers
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, related field, or equivalent experience
• 3+ years of experience in working with enterprise customers in building, migrating and modernizing enterprise applications
• 3+ years of experience with customer cloud transformation activities to ensure successful delivery of solutions

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• AWS experience preferred, with experience in a wide range of AWS services (e.g., EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, IAM, VPC, CloudFormation)
• AWS Professional level certifications (e.g., Solutions Architect Professional, DevOps Engineer Professional) preferred
• Experience with automation and scripting (e.g., Terraform, Python, CDK, shell, Ruby, Powershell)
• Knowledge of security and compliance standards (e.g., HIPAA, GDPR)
• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Experience with AWS services (e.g. AWS Application Migration Service (MGN), Cloud Migration Factory, Portfolio analysis tooling) and managing large scale data center to data center and/or data center to cloud migrations; data center operations (e.g. data assurance, monitoring, alerting and notifications)
• Experience integrating AWS AI/ML services (SageMaker, Bedrock, Amazon Q); understanding of AI/ML governance and responsible AI practices

Additional Information

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you're applying in isn't listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $118,200/year in our lowest geographic market up to $204,300/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.