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About the Role:
The Amazon Web Services Professional Services team is looking for Cloud Architect to join our National Security and Defense team in Australia. As a Cloud Architect you will have deep technical engineering skills and an ability to deliver infrastructure as code solutions. You will also be required to support migration engagements helping customer assess treat and migrate complex workloads from onprem infrastructure to the AWS platform.
Clearance:
This position requires that the candidate selected will be an Australian Citizen that either holds or will be eligible to obtain and maintain a Negative Vetting Level 1 or 2 (AGSVA) security clearance.
Key job responsibilities
Deliver technical solutions that solve for new levels of complexity scale and performance enabling breakthrough innovations for customers.
Ability to deliver infrastructure as code solutions and complete full SLDC lifecycle processes in support of customer engagements.
Apply and create best practices in multiple technical domains using AWS and thirdparty technology products
Guide customers appropriately following our AWS WellArchitected Framework
Drive deep architectural discussions to ensure solutions are successfully deployed in the cloud
Manage migrations of existing applications and development of new applications using AWS cloud services
Work with AWS field business development marketing training and support teams to help partners and customers learn and use AWS services such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2 Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3 Amazon Simple DB/RDS databases AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) etc.
Work closely with AWS engineering and support teams to convey partner and customer needs and feedback as input to technology roadmaps
Gather real world implementation challenges and recommend new capabilities that would simplify adoption and drive greater value from use of AWS cloud services
About the team
About the team
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Australian Citizenship
20 years as a Technical Delivery Consultant
Proven track record of technical leadership in complex engagements
Proven knowledge in AWS services and solutions
Existing NV1 or NV2 Security Clearance
Experience in the Defence and/or National Security domain
Bachelors or Masters degree in Software Engineering or similar
Acknowledgement of country:
In the spirit of reconciliation Amazon acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.
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