Are you a seasoned Solution Architect or Technical Executive with handson Azure experience Would you like to expand your expertise in AWS and join an organization recognized for their expertise across multiple cloud platforms
As an AWS and Azure Cloud Intelligence Solution Architect you will be a recognized expert advising customers on the nuances and strengths of AWS and Azure. You will develop cloud migration modernization and multicloud acumen to craft highly scalable flexible and resilient cloud architectures that solve customer business problems and accelerate the adoption of AWS services. You will understand cloud economics to drive the highest value for our customers. After your engagements and cloud ecosystem explorations you will document and share your insights to train the AWS field and enhance our service offerings.
Ideal candidates bring deep handson expertise with multiple public cloud providers and a desire to staying at the forefront of cloud and industry advancements. They must have the technical depth and business experience to communicate the benefits of AWS services to IT architects engineering teams and CLevel executives. They must be able to collaborate with crossfunctional teams and think strategically to solve complex business and technical problems. They must have the inclination to share their insights and educate peers to foster a technical community of SMEs. Exceptional communication and strategic thinking are essential to succeed in this role.
Key job responsibilities
Serve as a technical expert in both AWS and Azure supporting customers with complex commercial and technical challenges.
Stay uptodate with Azure service offerings to extract technical and business insights that drive reference architectures runbooks blogs and training content.
Deliver technical and business presentations to internal audiences (field SAs BDMs consultants and product engineering) and external audiences (industry and partner events).
Work with customers and internal teams to create Proof of Concept (POCs) pilots and Minimum Viable Products (MVPs) that demonstrate solutions designed for successful deployment and operationalization in AWS cloud.
Lead crossfunctional crossorganization initiatives that drive thought leadership on multicloud and Azure migration scenarios.
Act as liaison between customers and our engineering teams; champion the top customer asks so they are prioritized in AWS roadmap
Mentor and lead other SAs. Create and scale best practices across the broader SA field community.
About the team
The AWS Cloud Intelligence teamis a specialty services organization that provides cloud competeexpertise globally. We are subject matter experts (SMEs) covering top and emerging competitors key domains and industry segments. Cloud Intelligence enables field teams to help their customers quickly by removing both business and technical blockers in the sales cycle. We advise account teams and their customers through at scale content gather and analyze insights surrounding comparablecloud providers and highlight product and position gaps that our customers are experiencing to continuously improve AWS overall value proposition. In addition to ondemand selfservice resources the CI team provides targeted support for specific competitiveopportunities through onetoone customer engagements. This team hires SAs and BDMs who are SMEs in one or more public clouds to advise AWS field teams on the best strategies to develop compelling business cases to support customers coexisting and partnering with competing public cloud services.
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Why AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the worlds most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating thats why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.
Experience developing technology solutions and evangelising endtoend technology roadmaps that guide IT transformations toward cloud computing
10 years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development cloud computing systems engineering infrastructure security networking data & analytics) experience
Experience communicating across technical and nontechnical audiences and at Clevel including training workshops publications
3yrs of Azure Hands on Experience
2 years Azure AL/ML experience
5 years architecting/designing solutions built on Azure
8 years of experience as a solutions architect software engineer technical consultant or technical presales in Enterprise IT
3 years of experience as a manager lead or shared principal architect in a large company or consulting firm
Broad technology experience across cloud architecture analytics machine learning generative AI DevOps containers serverless CI/CD cloud migrations or IT transformations relational databases NoSQL databases networking security storage
Strong problemsolving skills Demonstrated ability to analyze problems develop actionable tactical plans quickly uplevel the insights to strategy
Demonstrated ability of being a trusted advisor to customers. Able to facilitate relationships with senior technical executives as well as easily interact and give guidance to software developers IT operations staff and system architects.
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race national origin gender gender identity sexual orientation protected veteran status disability age or other legally protected status.
Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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