Senior Specialist Solutions Architect AWS Managed Services

AWS Specialist Solutions Architects (SSAs) are technologists with deep domainspecific expertise able to address advanced concepts and feature designs. SSAs work with customers who have complex challenges that require expertlevel knowledge to solve. SSAs craft scalable flexible and resilient technical architectures that address those challenges. SSAs work backwards from our customers most complex business problems to build and execute technical gotomarket plans that turn AWS ideas into multibilliondollar businesses.

AWS Managed Services (AMS) helps customers adopt AWS at scale by operating their AWS resources efficiently and securely using AWS services. AMS extends customer teams with operational capabilities including monitoring incident management security patch backup and cost optimization. As an SSA for AMS you will leverage your cloud operations domain expertise to help customers create cloud operating models that use AWS services to ensure their workloads are well operated.

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Key job responsibilities
Lead technical presales conversations with AWS customers. Help them define cloud operating models that leverage AWS services and align to AWS operational and security best practices.

Represent the voice of the customer; bring customer feedback to product teams to influence feature development and future product roadmap.

Provide advanced technical and operational knowledge to unblock our customers largest and most critical business challenges.

Act as a thought leader and share best practices through forums such as AWS blogs whitepapers reference architectures and public speaking at events such as AWS Summit and re:Invent.

Partner with business development peers to define the technical components of bestinclass GoToMarket (GTM) concepts solutions and initiatives.

Develop and support an AWS internal community of technical subject matter experts worldwide. Create field enablement materials for the broader SA population to help them understand how to integrate operational best practices into customer architectures.

A day in the life
AWS Managed Services is a customercentric global organization that provides technical services to our customers. As a member our team you will be at the forefront of this transformational technology. You will be assisting a global list of companies and developers that are taking advantage of a growing set of services and features to run their missioncritical applications.

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Sales Marketing and Global Services (SMGS)
AWS Sales Marketing and Global Services (SMGS) is responsible for driving revenue adoption and growth from the largest and fastest growing small and midmarket accounts to enterpriselevel customers including public sector. The AWS Global Support team interacts with leading companies and believes that worldclass support is critical to customer success. AWS Support also partners with a global list of customers that are building missioncritical applications on top of AWS services.

About the team
As a member of the Support and Managed Service GTM team you will help define and deliver the technical GTM plan for AWS Managed Services (AMS). You are a leader for specialists architects partners and account teams around the world and set direction and standards for how we solve customer problems in the CloudOps domain. You partner with technical and business teams across AWS and bring the voice of the customer into our product development roadmap. The team sees the big picture and sets the plan so the worlds most customer obsessed technical teams can make history.

Experience communicating across technical and nontechnical audiences including executive level stakeholders or clients
Experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud
Experience with presentations and speaking with executives IT management and developers
Experience within specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development cloud computing systems engineering infrastructure security networking data & analytics).

Knowledge of cloud architecture
Cloud Technology Certification (such as Solutions Architecture Cloud Security Professional or Cloud DevOps Engineering)
Experience in infrastructure architecture database architecture and networking
Experience architecting/operating solutions built on AWS
Bachelors degree in computer science engineering mathematics or equivalent
Strong written and verbal communication skills with a high degree of comfort writing technical documents.

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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.