Solutions Architect, AGS NOLA PS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for a Solutions Architect to help launch and grow our public sector and education business in Colombia. You would be one of the members of a dynamic team that would incorporate the latest in disruptive and cutting-edge cloud computing technologies to address the difficult problems of IT agility and costs. Your business development and sales team will accelerate the adoption of AWS as the leading cloud technology platform.

As an Amazon Web Services Solutions Architect you will have the opportunity to shape and deliver a strategy to build broad and shared use of AWS computing services (such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) Amazon DynamoDB Amazon API Gateway AWS WAF and Amazon CloudFront) within education and public sector organizations as well as the public sector partner ecosystem whose growth and knowledge transfer will be one of your main objectives.

**Fluency in Spanish (written and verbal) at a professional or native level is required for this position


Key job responsibilities
- Serve as a technical reference in Colombia helping to ensure customer success in fulfilling their missions through the creation and migration of applications software and services on the AWS platform.
- Engage and educate new and existing partner ecosystems and support their technical implementation efforts.
- Help solution providers and government agencies with the definition and implementation of technical and commercial strategies that enable them to reduce costs and raise the bar for citizen services.
- Capture and share best practices knowledge among the global AWS Solutions Architect community as well as your SA team.
- Understand AWS market segments customer base and industry verticals.

A day in the life
- Create build transfer knowledge and design cloud computing architectures for our education health government and non-governmental entity customers.
- Dive deep into technical discussions about design and have an innate curiosity to always keep your technical skills up to date while keeping a pulse on industry trends.
- Our company has the motto: Work hard. Have fun. Make history. It is essential to love what you do and take pride in your value proposition to our customers.

About the team
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- Experience in English-language communication skills both written and verbal
- Experience communicating complex ideas to technical and non-technical audiences
- 2 years of design implementation or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience
- 3 years of IT sales experience

- 3 years of infrastructure architecture database architecture and networking experience
- Knowledge of software development tools and methodologies
- Experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud
- Technical and customer-facing skills that will allow you to be the technical face of AWS within our solution provider ecosystem/environment as well as directly to end customers

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