AWS Global Sales drives adoption of the AWS cloud worldwide enabling customers of all sizes to innovate and expand in the cloud. Our team empowers every customer to grow by providing tailored service unmatched technology and unwavering support. We dive deep to understand each customers unique challenges then craft innovative solutions that accelerate their success. This customerfirst approach is how we built the worlds most adopted cloud. Join us and help us grow.
Amazon Web Services is looking for a highly motivated Solutions Architect to help accelerate customer adoption. This is an excellent opportunity to join Amazons world class technical teams working with some of the best and brightest engineers architects and technical managers while also developing your skills and furthering your career within one of the most innovative and progressive technology companies anywhere.
As a Solutions Architect at AWS you will work directly with customers. We are looking for individuals who are motivated by the opportunity to work backwards from these customers needs and help them gain competitive edge using AWS. As an experienced technologist and key member of the Account team you will help influence customers architectural choices across broad use cases involving security compute storage networking as well as advanced scenarios involving serverless analytics GenAI and AI/ML.
As a part of the role you will provide exceptional technical design guidance and thought leadership. You will lead efforts to capture and share bestpractice knowledge with the AWS solution architect community. You will also gain 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.
Key job responsibilities
* As a key member of the SA team ensure success in designing building and modernizing applications software and services on the AWS platform.
* Provide architectural guidance and recommendations on running applications efficiently and reliably on AWS platform.
* Demonstrated communication skills and ability to convey complex ideas to a nontechnical audience with an ability to connect technology with measurable business value.
* Participate in deep architectural discussions and design exercises to create worldclass solutions built on AWS while crafting solutions that are designed for deployment in the cloud.
* Author or otherwise contribute to AWS customerfacing publications such as blogs white papers and proof of concepts.
* Share customer feedback to internal product management and engineering teams to help drive the future of AWS cloud.
* Conduct onetofew and onetomany training sessions to transfer knowledge to customers considering or already using AWS
* In partnership with the sales team formulate and execute strategies to achieve business outcomes through the adoption of the AWS platform.
* Build deep relationships with senior technical individuals within customers to enable them to be cloud advocates.
* Capture and share leading practice knowledge within the AWS solutions architect community.
A day in the life
You will have the opportunity to help SMB customers accelerate their cloud implementation to modernize their business on AWS. Working with these customers you will help them transform existing workloads by designing modern target architectures optimized for business agility innovation performance resiliency cost security and more using both native and partner solutions. Our teams focus on understanding customer key business drivers as well as the existing application architecture(s) to deliver a technical recommendation to the customer with a goal of designing a robust cloud architecture that can scale as their business requires.
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4 years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development cloud computing systems engineering infrastructure security networking data & analytics) experience
4 years of design implementation or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience
4 years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience
Experience working within software development or Internetrelated industries
Experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud
Experience working with AWS technologies from a dev/ops perspective
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