Do you like helping U.S. Department of Defense organizations implement innovative cloud computing solutions and solve technical problems Would you like to do this using the latest cloud computing technologies Do you have a knack for helping these groups understand application architectures and integration approaches and do you have the consultative skills to launch a project on a trajectory to success
Come join our team as a Solutions Architect (SA) and help us accelerate our growing U.S. Defense Department business as part of the World Wide Public Sector practice. The team this SA will join supports Air Force Information Cyber and Intelligence customers Combatant Commands and Navy. This is an excellent opportunity to join Amazons truly innovative technical teams while also developing your skills and furthering your career within one of the most innovative and progressive technology companies anywhere.
In this role you will have the opportunity to help shape and deliver on a strategy to build broad use of Amazons computing web services (e.g. Amazon Bedrock Amazon SageMaker Amazon S3 Amazon EC2 and AWS Lambda) directly with customers and our ecosystem of system integrators and solution providers. Your broad responsibilities will include: owning the technical engagement and ultimate success around specific implementation projects; defining implementation architectures providing inputs to RFI and RFP responses developing a deep expertise in the AWS technologies as well as broad knowhow around how applications and services are constructed using the AWS platform; and being a subject matter expert on security as it relates to customer applications and services.
You will provide thoughtful technical design and offer sensitivity to our customer needs in the Defense markets for cloud computing working with a truly innovative sales and business development team. You will lead efforts to capture and share bestpractice knowledge amongst the AWS solution architect community. You will have the opportunity to learn from collaborate with and educate some of the brightest technical minds in the industry today across the breadth of enterprise architecture.
You should apply to this role if you are passionate about:
Creating building educating training and designing cloud computing architectures especially if its for Defense Department customers.
Our company credo: Work hard. Have fun. Make history. Its critical to love what you do and take pride in your value proposition to our customers.
Deepdive technical discussions around design and the curiosity to keep your technical skills current while maintaining a pulse on industry trends
Experience in the following key areas are helpful:
Executive Speaking and Presentation Skills White board small and large group presentations
Technical Experience with web applications services development/deployment DevOps/DevSecOps cloud computing data and database architectures and analytics or networking
Operational Web site/services operations management and security
Economic and business RFP/Acquisition support; technical architecture; understanding market trends; cost benefit analysis
Advisory/Consulting experience with Defense Department customers
Amazon aims to be the most customer centric company on earth. Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides a highly reliable scalable lowcost infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers critical applications for hundreds of thousands of businesses in 190 countries around the world.
This position requires that the candidate selected be a US Citizen and currently possess and maintain an active Top Secret security clearance.
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2 years of design implementation or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience
4 years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development cloud computing systems engineering infrastructure security networking data & analytics) experience
3 years of infrastructure architecture database architecture and networking experience
Current active US Government Security Clearance of Top Secret or above
Experience in technology/software sales presales or consulting
Experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud
Experience working with AWS technologies from a dev/ops perspective
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