Sr Technical Account Manager National Security

Would you like to join one of the fastestgrowing organizations within Amazon Web Services (AWS) and help customers of all industries and sizes gain the best value and service from AWS At AWS National Security were looking for a Enterprise Account Engineer (EAE) to support our customers creative and transformative spirit of innovation across all technologies including Compute Storage Database Machine Learning Big Data Security Networking Serverless and more. This is not a sales role but rather an opportunity to be the principal technical advisor and voice of the customer to organizations ranging from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises.

As an EAE you will help craft and execute strategies to drive our customers adoption and use of AWS services including EC2 S3 DynamoDB & RDS databases Lambda SageMaker ECS/EKS GuardDuty Systems Manager CodePipeline IoT and many more. Your technical acumen and customerfacing skills will enable you to effectively represent AWS within a customers environment and drive discussions with senior leadership regarding incidents tradeoffs support and risk management.

You will provide advocacy and strategic technical guidance to help plan and build solutions using best practices and proactively keep your customers AWS environments operationally healthy. The close relationships developed with your customers will allow you to understand their business/operational needs and technical challenges and help them achieve the greatest value from AWS. This position will require the ability to travel 10 or more as needed.

The EAE is the centerpiece of value to our National Security customers. If you wish to be at the forefront of innovation come join us!

This position requires that the candidate selected be a US Citizen and must currently possess and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph.

*While this role is posted in Herndon VA this position can also be located in: Arlington VA.



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5 years of technical engineering experience with operational parameters and troubleshooting for one of the following: Compute / Storage / Networking / CDN / Databases / AI/ML / DevOps / Big Data and Analytics / Security / Applications Development in a distributed systems environment
Bachelors Degree in Computer Science Math or related discipline required or 5 years of equivalent work experience
Internal enterprise or external customerfacing experience as a technical lead
Current active US Government Security Clearance of TS/SCI with Polygraph

7 years of technical engineering experience in operational parameters and troubleshooting for three 3 or more of the following: Compute / Storage / Networking / CDN / Databases / DevOps / Big Data and Analytics / Security/ Applications Development in a distributed systems environment
Experience in Informational Technology operations
Professional oral and written communication skills presenting to an audience containing one or more decision maker(s)
Experience in a 24x7 operational services or support environment
Experience with AWS services and/or other cloud offerings Federal/DoD Clearances

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $138200/year in our lowest geographic market up to $239000/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on jobrelated knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity signon 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 This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.