Sr. Specialist Solutions Architect HPC ML, AWS WWSO EMEA, Advanced Compute

AWS Specialist Solutions Architects (SSAs) are technologists with deep domain-specific expertise able to address advanced concepts and feature designs. As part of the AWS WWSO organization Specialist SAs work with customers who have complex challenges that require expert-level knowledge to solve. SSAs craft scalable flexible and resilient technical architectures that address those challenges. This might involve guiding customers as they refactor an application or design entirely new cloud-based systems. Do you enjoy solving novel and unique technical challenges for customers Become an AWS Specialist SA!

The Worldwide Specialist Organization (WWSO) is part of AWS Sales Marketing and Global Services (SMGS) which is responsible for driving revenue adoption and growth from the largest and fastest growing small- and mid-market accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector. We work backwards from our customers most complex and business critical problems to build and execute go-to-market plans that turn AWS ideas into multi-billion-dollar businesses. WWSO teams include business development specialist and technical solutions architecture. As part of WWSO youll provide expertise across the entire life cycle of an AWS customer initiative from developing ideas for new services to accelerating the adoption of established businesses. We pride ourselves on thinking big delivering exceptional results for our customers and working across AWS as #OneTeam.

Are you passionate about cloud computing and its potential to overcome some of the biggest challenges in High Performance Computing (HPC) Do you have a unique combination of deep technical knowledge business acumen and strong interpersonal skills Do you enjoy tackling large analytical problems at massive scale Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Senior HPC Specialist Solutions Architect focused on HPC workloads to work with our customers including physics informed machine learning CAE weather and accelerated computing with GPU to craft cloud-based solutions.

As a trusted customer advocate you will help organizations understand best practices around advanced cloud-based solutions and how to migrate existing workloads to the cloud. You will have the opportunity to help shape and execute a strategy to build mind-share and broad use of AWS within (enterprise) customers. The ideal candidate must be self-motivated with a proven track record of customer obsession and delivering results. The ability to connect technology with measurable business value is critical to a solutions architect. You should also have a demonstrated ability to think strategically about business products and technical challenges in HPC.

Key job responsibilities
- Design Customer Solutions
- Collaborate with the wider AWS teams to help customers and partners architect HPC Solutions that leverage AWS Services
- Engage with Solution Architects Account Managers Professional Services and Partners to define an HPC Engagement strategy for AWS operational territories and key accounts with emphasis on public sector National Super Computing Centers Government agencies and enterprises as well as startups
- Thought Leadership Provide thought leadership on solutions that benefit customers through the use of AWS Services. This takes the form of contribution to external publications such as the AWS Compute Blog whitepapers and reference architectures as well as internal training of Solutions Architects Professional Services Consultants Technical Account Managers and AWS Trainers
- Serve as a key member of the business development and account teams in helping to ensure customer success by advising on building and migrating applications software and services on/to AWS.
- Assist solution providers with the definition and implementation of technical and business strategies.
- Capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst the worldwide AWS solution architect community
- Understand AWS market segments and industry verticals.
- Understand and exploit the use of internal business support systems.

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- 8 years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development cloud computing systems engineering infrastructure security networking data & analytics) experience
- 3 years of design implementation or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience
- 10 years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience
- Strong verbal and written communications skills are a must as well as the ability to work effectively across internal and external stakeholders.
- Deep HPC experience for workloads in a domain such as CAE Weather Simulation oil and gas automotive / aerospace financial services or pharmaceuticals.
- Experience in architecting an HPC system and infrastructure with orchestration schedulers (e.g. Slurm Torque Symphony or GridServer) parallel file systems (Lustre IBM Spectrum Scale)
- Experience in deployment tuning benchmarking and management of HPC technologies in a multi-user environment.
- Deep GPU knowledge in HPC and/or AI/ML frameworks.

- 5 years of infrastructure architecture database architecture and networking experience
- Experience working with end user or developer communities
- Working knowledge of HPC schedulers and distributed/parallel file systems underlying IT systems and the HPC development process high throughput and tight coupling approaches.
- Working knowledge of containers such as Docker Kubernetes Singularity.
- Strong verbal and written communications skills are a must as well as the ability to work effectively across internal and external stakeholders.

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